I am not going to sit and claim I was against the war from the start, but i also cant say i was for it . I was more in the middle seeing merits to do it, but cautioning that there was a heavy price to pay if we did, and that to many where overlooking it thinking it would be easy. I also more and more doubted the claims of WMD and I said from the start if we did go in, plans had to be in place to deal with Basil everything that has happened so far that we clearly did not plan for. I stated from the start it would be hard, and we would have to deal with a Insurgency funded from inside Iraq and also From Iran and Other groups..possibly even seeing Iran's troops moving in . 4000 Dead is a shame, how the war was fought, Pitiful...who is the blame? Dems for not pushing harder to make sure Bush had a plan before they voted and for trusting him to much...but really The Republicans are the ones who went to war, and made the plans that have failed...Dems just are the ones who saw how bad it was going first.
I do find it funny how people can blame the party not in power for so many F ups buy those who actually did the plans, had the power , and made the call to go in. Those who failed to see the insurance for what it was for more then a year after it was gaining power.
But in the end one has to understand that this nation chose to go to war, and to believe that it would be over so fast or with so few casualties as some seem to believe it should have, is to live in a fairy tail land.
In the end I dont think pulling out will help anything, but rather make things worse. If we do, I hope to god I am wrong. But like much of how this war has gone, that has been rare, though I am always happy when i am, because it normaly has ment something good for us. I think the surge was the right idea from a military and Security standpoint...Where we have failed is the political end, that we should have known would be the hardest part from the start.