This is interesting for me because this is about the fourth person that has implied that Cheney has become much more combatitive than he used to be. All have worked with him in the past.

And I still must repeat my impression of the war.

1. We went to war to eliminate WMD's, not to free anyone.

2. AFTER we found no WMD's, we undertook this "get rid of Saddam free the people line" and we were woefully unprepared. We had a very large number of people spread out looking for WMD's. But we had nowhere near the manpower to accomplish "lets get the Democracy machine working apparatus ready to go". If there was, we would have had many more troops ready to take over institutions and prepare ASAP to handover the institutions to Iraqis.

3. By the time we realized what a huge task we had undertaken, we had released chaos by creating a huge power vacuum.

4. The thought now is we cannot leave immediately because we have caused a huge mess. We must make an attempt to create some sort of government that can bring some sort of order and let the Iraqi's take over from there.

This is why I dont get the war was a mistake. The mistake was there were no WMD's. So mission accomplished. We feared an attack, and there was no hint of an attack against us. Leave and let the greatful Iraqi's take over the collateral damage of removing Saddam. And thats where it went amiss. There was no real exit plan because we did not intend to free anyone in the first place. That became the new purpose after we found no WMD's.

What am I missing? I was living here reading the papers... Am I the only one that witnessed the shift in purpose?