"Sandman" wrote in message

Gawd, what a waste of bandwidth.

Bush, BTW, didn't declare an "end to major combat". He declared an
"end to combat". The White House website changed that language
shortly after his blooper. The truth is, despite the "Mission
Accomplished" photo-op blooper, the real war in Iraq had just begun.

Hindsight is often oh, so good!

Dubya just announced the end to our "bomb the **** out of them"
campaign (you gotta admit, Dubya really got high on using Clinton's
military machinery),

You mean the military machinery that escaped Clinton's best efforts to get
rid of it?

but by now clearly never had a clue about the
type of guerilla war he has gotten himself into, with NO exit
strategy whatsoever.

Now there's a great idea. Tell the world including your enemy how you plan
to end the war. Presumably, the more detail the better.