Are you SERIOUS! You need to stop drinking the cool-aide and actually go over to Basra and all the other cities not controlled by the government your ilk has put into power that is unable to govern. Your elite club have created an unstable mid-east for years to come. So, yes, Hillary or Barack don't have any idea of what they face until one or the other assumes the Presidency.

Richard Perle, realist: "This was a war worth fighting. It ended quickly with few civilian casualties and with little damage to Iraq's cities, towns or infrastructure. It ended without the Arab world rising up against us, as the war's critics feared, without the quagmire they predicted, without the heavy losses in house-to-house fighting they warned us to expect." "Relax, celebrate victory." 1 MAY 2003 With all DUE respect, Sir, it would be difficult to provide a clearer example of absolute delusion than the example you penned above. EVERY SINGLE THING that you so smugly dismissed came true, and the stakes could not have been higher. Your "realism" has done enough.