I'd say you and Rummy are on track for worst strategic war planners award. Go down in history as a failure.
LOL!
Now I am all abuot the US being #1 in the world, so I am fine with being oil aggressors - as long as we're HONEST with ourselves about it. Taking that fake moral high road, as many do, and claiming we're there as saints and not as sinners, is total cowardice.
BUT - if you're going to bomb the shit out of a nation, at least look at what happens in week #2 when every societal control and resource faucet is suddenly pinkmisted and you've got chaos, ambition, weapons, and trillions of reasons to die for it.
This is, of course, when the goal is to WIN. it's long been my opinion that the goal of the war in iraq is NOT to win - but rather to stall til the pipeline is completeld in fall of 2008. The troops are fighting their asses off, but resources are appropriated so that the insurgency is never crushed. If peace came tomorrow, the pipeline project is OVER. We are asked to leave, period. Until there is peace, we chase our goal of managing $50 trillion worth of oil, with hefty markups for our time
There is seriously NO motive to win this war, for anyone with a stock portfolio. you think about that.