“Our committee heard blindly optimistic people from the administration prior to the war and people outside the administration — what I call the ’dancing in the street crowd,’ that we just simply will be greeted with open arms,” Lugar said. “The nonsense of all of that is apparent. The lack of planning is apparent.”
The same ideology that cut through the UN crap and got the conflict done, rightly or wrongly, is also the same ideology that assumed flowers would be tossed in the streets in jubilation and therefore inadequately planned for the opposite.
Only Ann Coulter is out there saying the post-war management of the situation has been effective. Even Bush concedes "miscalculations."
A terrific, reasoned, column at Newsweek by Middle East expert Fareed Zacharia on the potential of a civil war in Iraq.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5973045/site/newsweek/
Cowperson