Bush Iraq Policy: 'Who Knows? We Might Get Lucky.'

BuCheney didn't give a flying damn what Americans thought then or think now.

The vast majority of Americans were against the invasion of Iraq until the Bushites began painting pictures of mushroom clouds rising over American cities and arial drones spraying god knows what all over the eastern seaboard.

The Iraq war became a war of vengeance when we were told that Saddam and Al Qaeda were both responsible for 9/11. It could have never been a war of liberation for that reason.

Now there are other reasons...read on.

Consortiumnews.com:

Except for die-hard neoconservatives and George W. Bush's staunchest followers, most Americans, if allowed to turn back the clock to March 2003, would happily agree to give the United Nations weapons inspectors more time to complete their search for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Though it's a bitter pill for the Bush team to swallow, even with a swig of fine Bordeaux, the French were right. If their advice had been taken, more than 2,500 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis might be alive today, and the United States might have averted a strategic disaster.

Even looking back at post-invasion high points, like Saddam Hussein's capture, many Americans might wish the Bush administration had opted for a 'declare victory and leave' approach. But Bush saw each positive development as encouragement to press on toward a more total victory.

In retrospect, Bush's policy might be summed up by the slogan, 'Who knows? We might get lucky.'