Althought, as a so-called "liberal" I hate to admit it, sometimes this man actually makes the mark:

Victorian View of Iraq

By George F. Will
Friday, August 22, 2003; Page A21

At the beginning of her military campaign to reverse Argentina's 1982 seizure of the Falklands, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, "Failure? The possibilities do not exist." She was paraphrasing Queen Victoria: "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist." Victoria said that in 1899, during "Black Week" in the Boer War, when things were going badly.

The United States has just endured 12 particularly difficult days in Iraq -- the bombings of the Jordanian Embassy, the oil and water pipelines and the United Nations offices. This has been "terrorism plus," terrorism with this difference: Most terrorism is random violence. This is tactical, carefully targeted to serve a cunning strategy.

For the neocons on this Board who think things in Iraq are just rosy, this gem of a quote from Mr Will sums it up nicely: "Perhaps the administration should recognize that something other than its intelligence reports concerning weapons of mass destruction was wrong."

Its a quagmire folks and the curent administration is too incompetent to figure out how get the muck off our boots.