Originally Posted by kane

I have always stood by my belief that the middle east is a place that has known nothing but conflict since the beginning of recorded time and there is no reason to believe that there will be anything but conflict there in the future.

As for the pre-war assessments, to me, if you look at what was said you have to believe one of two things. Either they really thought it wasn't going to be that hard and things would go smoothly and it would be relatively cheap, or they knew otherwise and lied to us.