Do you agree that the Bush administration created a fiasco in Iraq?

Senior officials of the Bush Administration were at best criminally incompetent in their actions after the attacks on the World Trade Center.

"Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Tommy Franks spent most of their time and energy on the least demanding task - defeating Saddam's weakened conventional forces - and the least amount on the most demanding - rehabilitation of and security for the new Iraq. The result was a surprising contradiction. The United States did not have nearly enough troops to secure the hundreds of suspected WMD sites that had supposedly been identified in Iraq or to secure the nation's long, porous borders. Had the Iraqis possessed WMD and terrorist groups been prevalent in Iraq as the Bush administration so loudly asserted, U.S. forces might well have failed to prevent the WMD from being spirited out of the country and falling into the hands of the dark forces the administration had declared war against."

(Michael R. Gordon & Gen. Bernard Trainor, Cobra II, pp. 503-504)

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB214/

Jim Webb, in September, 2002, wrote an Op-Ed in The Washington Post vehemently arguing against the invasion of Iraq. It is striking just how right Webb was about virtually everything he said, and it is worth quoting at length to underscore what "serious, responsible national security" viewpoints actually look like:

"Other than the flippant criticisms of our "failure" to take Baghdad during the Persian Gulf War, one sees little discussion of an occupation of Iraq, but it is the key element of the current debate. The issue before us is not simply whether the United States should end the regime of Saddam Hussein, but whether we as a nation are prepared to physically occupy territory in the Middle East for the next 30 to 50 years. Those who are pushing for a unilateral war in Iraq know full well that there is no exit strategy if we invade and stay. . . ."

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/10/jim-webb-marty-peretz-and-our-serious.html

Jim Webb should be our next president.

To stay on point, anyone who makes even a cursory examination of the record will find that Bush 43 was the worst president in our history.

Walt