"all 19 intelligence and security agencies..."

Big fat deal.

It was not established then that a US massive attack on Iraq was the way to solve the danger seen.


And it still is not.

Spare us your pathetic attempt at justification, yet again, of an unnecessary war, entered into by means of a despicable propaganda campaign that all thinking beings can easily see now.

And as for McCain using Iraq as a model for Afghanistan, that dog obviously won't hunt. Main problem in Afghanistan is the lack of any good alternative to the drug-based economy.   Our enemies have found that rather than try to stamp out the drugs, it's better to exploit the situation. No Sunni "Awakening" is possible--the opposition is not stupid enough, a la Iraq, to alienate their own supporters by a thuggish "Puritanism".   Their vicious---and stupid--behavior in Iraq, not any so-called "Surge", is the main reason for the improvement there.