Bush finally put someone who knows how to fight a war like this, General Petraeus, in charge. And somehow Bush deserves the credit? I guess that’s fair, considering about 2,500 troops, about a half million Iraqis, and billions of dollars were spent while he took 3.5 years to figure out what needed to be done.

Bush failed in Iraq, this country owes General Petraeus a debt of gratitude for bailing us out. Bush deserves no credit–we saw what his “leadership” of the Iraq war led to: mass murder, terrorism, and IEDs. He sat there with his pecker in his hand for 3.5 years, and now we are supposed to what? Thank him?

This is not to say the Democrats are not failures and that the Democrats are betting on failure in Iraq. They are useless cowards that go with the political winds. They are just as responsible for getting us into this mess and for the costs of this war as Bush.

The infuriating here is if the right decision was made to put a general trained and an expert in counter insurgency in charge in the first place, we could have avoided the bloody mess Iraq became. In fact, we would have been better off because the country would not have been so severely ravaged by war. We paid a high price for Bush’s stupidity and on the job training.

It will take far more than 3.5 years to rebuild what was destroyed in that time due to Bush “greeted as liberators” incompetence.