The War In Iraq Was Predicated On What Now?

The Washington Post is reporting that the Bush administration has lowered its expectations for whatever it was that we were doing in Iraq in the first place:

The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.

"What we expected to achieve was never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground," said a senior official involved in policy since the 2003 invasion. "We are in a process of absorbing the factors of the situation we're in and shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning."

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"The most thoroughly dashed expectation was the ability to build a robust self-sustaining economy. We're nowhere near that. State industries, electricity are all below what they were before we got there," said Wayne White, former head of the State Department's Iraq intelligence team who is now at the Middle East Institute. "The administration says Saddam ran down the country. But most damage was from looting [after the invasion], which took down state industries, large private manufacturing, the national electric" system.

Um.

"...shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning..."?

WTF? First it was WMD and nukes, then it shifted to freedom/democracy for Iraqis, now it's... errrrr... looks lahk we rally gits us a fucked-up sit-chee-a-shun, boahs!

What more do you need to hear to be convinced that Bush et al. are fucking liars, have completely fucked up our all-volunteer military, and have diverted our tax dollars into the pockets of the already filthy rich?

Here's what I'm thinking: Does the guy have to balls to resign... or are we gonna have to take him down?