But there is no way to get around it.
We have to forge ahead and finish the job.
The Bush administration will face recriminations for how poorly we did it.
Bush's popularity will drop and he will be an embarrassment to his country.
Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld will all disappear from the public eye (especially when scandals like ENRON finally make it to court).

The American people will vote that monkey out of office and we'll try to rebuild our image to the world at large, and some pretty fancy footwork needs to start real soon.

I go with the reality of trying to get this "job" done.
It shouldn't have been started in the first place.
Davin, Bowser, Mary Anne, Raoul a few others here see the reality of the whole picture, and not just with rose-colored glasses on either.
The rest of you live in some type of hyped-up, feel good America-propaganda land.
The ideas are GOOD, but the reality of carrying them out are impossible.
Don't worry, if we had listened to international opinion in the first place, and lined all our ducks up in a row first, we wouldn't have this disaster looming right now.

Bush and his hawks on the other hand, don't care to listen.