Yes GHWB wrote of the immeasurable cost of occupying Iraq.

With many of the same cronies re-appointed under "Jr.", the earlier advice was over ridden by Rumsfeld and Cheney.

Let us not forget that Colin Powell advised W that "if you invade Baghdad, you will end up OWNING Iraq - at a cost too large to imagine..."

Colin Powell was forced out with a lesser award than was even given Tenet.