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See, and here's the thing: From what I've seen, George Bush doesn't have the leadership qualities to get us out of Iraq.
Going into Iraq was on this Administrations agenda since before they took office (Paul O'Neill was saying that they were openly talking about it), and they set up an office in the Pentagon to deal with Iraqi intelligence, ignoring the intelligence that the Administration didn't like. Furthermore, the State Department was working on plans for post-Saddam Iraq, but those plans were shelved in favor of the Pentagon's plans (remember it - it's the one where the Iraqis welcome us with flowers). The WMD was a red herring, and GWB knew it. He lied to us, the world, and probably himself to justifiy this invasion.
As John Kerry said: "Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time". Wrong war? For the moment, yes. We should have been hunting Al-Qaeda. Wrong place? Again, same reason. Some with wrong time. We could have dealt with Hussein after Al-Qaeda. Instead, we've gotten ourselves into a bit of a pickle. Yes, we won the intial combat, but who knows what kind of blowback this war is going to cause (especially since we went in with very few allies.)
Doesn't seem like very good leadership, from where I stand.
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