You had to see this coming. Not to put to fine a point on it but the Bush administration is smoking something good and I want some. Not so long ago VP Cheney was saying we were almost done suppressing the insurgents. Now they could be there for years and oh, by the way the U.S. isn’t sure it will stick around to finish the job.
I realize hindsight is 20/20 but the administration seems to have rose colored hindsight. There were a significant number of folks who knew before the war started that we would be there awhile and be ineffectual. And to think Bill Clinton was hounded for months over a daliance that killed exactly zero people.
Iraqis put on brave face after Rumsfeld comments (Reuters) – Reuters – Iraqi leaders put on a brave face on Monday after Washington said it would be up to them — not American forces — to defeat an insurgency that could last a decade or more.
(Via Yahoo! Top Stories)
