Submitted by Jeff Covinsky, Mar 23, 2007 21:52

The question is not whether it was worth it. The question is why are we still there. Saddam is gone. Mission accomplished. We did not go to Iraq with the intent of being a nation builder. Those are the exact words of President Bush. The problem is the reason for being in Iraq changes from day to day.

Yes, many who supported are not questioning. It is not a case of flip-flopping. It is a case of trying to reconcile the original intent with what is going on now in Iraq. If President Bush would have stated from day one that we are going to committ billions of dollars and thousands of troops to topple Saddam, secure Baghdad, fight a religious civil war, rebuild the country and then see what the landscape in the Middle East looks like and decide what to do next, the support at the outset would have been tepid at best.

Trying to figure out President Bush's plan is like trying to win a stuff animal at an arcade by shooting moving ducks as they move along a horizontal line. You will end up paying more for the stuffed animal, than you would have if you simpy bought the animal outright. In the analogy, Saddam is the stuffed animal.

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