kane

I have known her for a long time and she is a smart person. I knew she was a republican, but we had never really talked about politics. Then someone mentioned Iraq and I said something to the effect of: "We lost this war the day we invaded." and she said something like: "If we didn't invade they would have attacked us again." I replied: " You know Iraq didn't attack us right?" She then said: "Yeah, but Saddam worked with them and was behind it." I just about fell on the floor.

We talked for a while and basically she heard what Bush said before we invaded and still believed all of those things to be true. What was the saddest part of the thing was I asked her to tell me what he has done that is good. She named things, I shot them down and in the end she ended up just saying, "Well, I still think he is good."

So there are people that will think what they think no matter what evidence is presented to them.

I think Bush was handed a shitty stick right at the beginning of his presidency. With Worldcom, Enron, recession and 9/11 all in one year. But I think he really got himself sidetracked. I think he thought we would be in and out of Iraq in 9 months then when things went wrong he had no plan B and has been scrambling since. Add in the fact that he has set himself up as a guy who never flip flops and he had his back to the wall and didn't allow himself to change course and now we are stuck in a situation that probably doesn't have a good ending. He basically gambled his entire presidency on Iraq and unless it turns out good I think history will frown on him.