I'm the kind of guy that will clap you in irons if you don't do what you promise.

If the administration had accomplished what they set out to do in a reasonable time frame I would be singing their praises without a care for the absence of WMD etc.

I can understand that there are political considerations to war. If you know that you can't use unlimited force to win quickly, you must know with 100% certainty that you can win quickly with the force you are allowed.

Rule # 1 for peremptive war in this century: You must win quickly. The cost of war is is too high when there are no spoils.

Nothing suceeds like success