"war"?? what "war"? No one even pretended to declare a "war". You can't 'win' in a situation where you can't even identify the 'enemy' if he walks down the street beside your tank!

We don't HAVE an 'enemy', we have a bunch of guys who don't like us almost as much as they dislike various other guys of different religious sects! WE are just in the way as they try to get control of the area to suit themselves, and they can continue to snipe at us like this for years.

We (meaning Bush and his idiot advisors) have a lot to answer for when they were warned by experts how this 'incursion' would likely turn out. Bush used to say- about every two days...."the world is better off with Saddam gone". Uh-huh...right....does it LOOK better off?
Bad intelligence, bad planning, bad reasons, bad organization, ......the only thing they were good at was lying to themselves about what they wanted and how they might get it! And when those in power get good at lying to themselves, lying to the rest of us is child's play.

I hope Congress finds some way to curtail this latest buildup....lots more Iraqis are going to die before the situation settles down, NO MATTER WHAT WE DO....but it is not necessary that we spend billions more to ensure that a lot more or OUR soldiers die there also!