TOM: "I don't ignore it. Nor do I dismiss it as of no importance. I just am not making it the core criteria for the success of the military operation or the rebuilding effort, and only a fool would."

MY REPLY: Neither do I. Its obvious and inevitable that we "won" the war and will eventually succeed in the rebuilding effort. I post these here to remind us all that Mr. Bush sent these men and women to their deaths on the basis of a failed intelligence and a disreputable reason for initiating a pre-emptive war. Fact is, none of these individuals needed to have died. War in Iraq was no necessity to American security. In fact, it has had exactly the opposite effect.