My analysis is, we are on track & doing fine. Everyone knew there would be heavy U.S. casualties when we went in, you can't occupy a country for as long as ten years (that's how long they said it could take in the begining) without taking casualties; even in a country you liberated from a third party aggressor.
The W.M.D.'s were there, we know they were, Sadman used them on his own people, the U.S. forces just can't go into Iran & Syria to get what was trucked over to them at the momment which was the biggest portion of what he had. It was said, the most dangerous job in post-war Iraq would be the backhoe operator & I believe that is true.
Our government got us into the untied nations & they got us into the problems in the middle east. Joining the untied nations has been our biggest mistake to date, besides giving back territory gained by our soldiers sacrifices, it's funny, the land we took & kept we didn't deserve (Hawaii for one) & the lands we deserved we didn't keep such as France, Germany, the Iranian oil platforms in the persian gulf etc.
It was U.S. & British jets, our pilots, our money, our nations relations with the rest of the world that the untied nations put on the table when they came up with that "no fly zone" in Iraq. The Iraqi military was painting our planes with AA radar daily, we had the right to go in there as a violation of their surrender just on that alone.
The only thing Bush has done that I think is crap, is flip-flop after the end of govt vs. govt hostilities & say we went in to spread democracy, that's not why we went & he shouldn't try to crawfish & say that it was, our attack on Iraq was justified & it would be justified if we stomp the guts out of any country that threatens our safety or that of any of our allies (including france & canada)
