Without getting into the argument of whether it was known if weapons existed, if it was wise to attach any credibility to a source known as "curveball", etc, lets focus on the fact that we have created 2 messes, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Once again, lets not get into the discussion of how no one disagreed with going into Afghanistan and eliminating Al-Queda and the Taliban. But that many will argue the point that resources were pulled from just that mission to focus on Iraq, thereby creating 2 failed missions.

Let's focus on the present. With the document sent by the Iraqi embassador to Bush describing the state of anarchy that seems to exist in Iraq now, what do you see occurring different should we continue down the same path we are now?

That is the problem many have with "stay the course". The present course is a failed course.

I remember my first IT job. A nighttime computer operator on a mainframe. There was a remote operation that processed payroll. I was at the console the first night they were processing payroll after new payroll tax rules went into effect. I was watching the console when they submitted the first job for payroll. It crashed with an "SOC7" error. Standard error on IBM mainframe that is similar to a VFP "data type mismatch" error. The console went silent for about 5 minutes. Then for the next 15 minutes, the same job was submitted every minute. It appeared the programmers thought that they could change the outcome if they continued down the same road, just faster.

The situation in Iraq has degraded since our occupation. What can we possibly hope to accomplish by staying on the same road?


>Santorum's an idiot. However, Saddam Hussein went out of his way to make people believe he still had the weapons. That's been demonstrated over and over.
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>We shouldn't leave Iraq until we're finished there, and not a moment before.