Obviously the administration made plenty of mistakes. Large scale, long time frame operations like this always suffer from them. That won't change, regardless of the Presidential figurehead "in charge." That's why I focus on what the goal was/is/should be... giving the Iraqi people a real shot at the freedom to control their own country.

>The problem is the good things that have happened in Iraq are in spite of the administration, not because. Yes, there are instances of successes. There are some military leaders stationed in Iraq who know you must get to know the people. From statistics I've seen there's maybe 25% successes, 75% failures.