They should not have gone in without the final round of weapons inspectors, and they could then have targeted Saddam personally, reducing civilian casualties and our own.

The W Bush administration should have put Iraqis back to work as fast as possible.

They should have hired Iraqi translators.

As it was, every "consultant" in DC around lobbied for their pet projects - and we have not even got to Cheney and some of the oil companies yet...

Bottom line, the neo-cons fed W a line of s*** about how things were going to turn out, and our folks are dying as a result, the economy is a mess, and the ground situation has evolved into a real 'efing mess.

Either W ends the Israeli-Palestinian conflict well before the midterms, or both houses will change hands -

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