[Preechr]

You guys really need to start thinking like politicians here. The pattern is very easy to see. They talk a lot of shit about an issue they think they can make popular, then they feed into the political debate machine. There's a lot of spinning and porking, then, eventually, some sort of action is taken. You are used to seeing this action in the form of a bill being passed, but in this case, war was declared... a really big and ambitious one, in fact.

Think about those bills that get passed, though. In every case, what makes it through the machine is at best a shadow, if not a mockery, of the ideological bruhaha that started the process. Welfare Reform produces nearly the same Welfare System we had. Tax Reform bills regularly screw the tax code up even more. Immigration Reform... Weapons Initiatives... Freakin FCC laws... Can you name something Washington DC has ever done that worked out as planned? They even screwed up the damn Amber Alert!

The implementation of everything we've ever wanted the federal government to do has always been fucked from the get go. Why should War on Terror be any different? Bad planning should have been expected. Have you ever read any histories of any wars past? If so, I encourage you to compare the mistakes made with the benefits of seeing those efforts through. There's more at stake here than the glory of Dubya's legacy.