good tidings we bring....

Here is an article that pretty much sums uo my feelings about America's New War (TM)

but I'll excerpt my favorite paragraph from it:

Bush’s inner circle gives scant cause for confidence in this realm. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz seems to be a smart guy with an ambitious, appealing vision of a democratic phoenix arising from Saddam’s ashes. But he is all too reminiscent of Alden Pyle, the callow idealist-diplomat in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, who stumbled into a quagmire from the best intentions. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has no Middle Eastern experience, other than serving as emissary on a 1983 friendship trip to Saddam Hussein. Powell and Vice President Dick Cheney are held suspect by many Iraqis for having abandoned the anti-Saddam uprising at the end of Operation Desert Storm.