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I still have major reservations about this.
If you've learned anything from this experience, it shouldn't be that you were wrong, and Bush right, it should be that you don't know everything, and neither does he. No one does.
This is all far from over. If you'd like to use the ends justify the means approach, then by all means, judge this war after Iraq has been rebuilt, until then, it's far too early to be judging and apologizing, although the neo-conservative element on the board will surely congratulate you for it.
Just remember, we opened the floodgates. We've changed 50 years of successful established military doctrine, by changing our language from containment to pre-emption. I don't think this is a good thing. It suggest we're going to engage in Empire. The writing is on the wall, and ultimately this is bad news.
Until we can properly judge the actions of the President, I hold out this question instead...
What have we really accomplished in Iraq?
I continue to be frustrated because I can't truthfully answer that we've accomplished anything, and I predict that things will turn for the worst in the months to come, mainly because if I know anything about the history of these places, the tribes will all have their vengeance.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Frederich Nietzsche
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