IRAQ'S FAILURE. WHOSE FAULT?

This is the list the Bush Administration's excuses for why the Iraq war has turned into a pile of chraa (Arabic).

1. Faulty intelligence
2. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
3. The Iraqi people who "won't step up"
4. Osama bin Laden
5. Iran
6. Saudi Arabia
7. Syria
8. Jordan
9. Afghanistan
10. Sunnis
11. Shi'ites
12. Tribal leaders
13. Muqtada al Sadr and his Mehdi Army
14. Jews
15. Every American against the war
16. Democrats

The failure and defeat of the American destruction and occupation of Iraq is due to the non-leadership of men who have never directly experienced the horrors of war like:

George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Ronald Reagan, Joe Lieberman, Tom DeLay, Newt Gingrich, Trent Lott, Phil Gramm, Pat Buchanan, Dan Quayle, Richard Armey, Jack Kemp, Mitch McConnell, Bill Clinton, Lamar Alexander, Bob Barr, Dennis Hastert, Don Nickles, Mitt Romney, Bob Dornan, Vin Weber, Rudy Giuliani, John Engler William Bennett, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz, Henry Kissinger, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh, Paul Harvey, Brit Hume, Alan Keyes, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity,Wolf Blitzer, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Billie Graham

Maybe they'd think a little differently if they had experienced war first hand and maybe they should have studied their history and heeded this memorable and prophetic quote -

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on this strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events"
Winston Churchill - 1874 1965