Reply #1: If we are "out" of Iraq next year, then Bush was brilliant for waging war

[mdmc]

The idea that we will have an easy victory in Iraq is flawed. I opposed the war because I knew that a stable, secular, unified, pro-west Iraq was at least 50 years of blood and treasure away.

If we can "mission accomplish" by next year then I was wrong (about the war requiring American blood and treasure for 50 years) and Bush was right to unseat a dictator and show the world what we do to our enemies..