Go vote.

[G.Irish]

Our leadership flat out failed (or didn't want to) to use the force required to establish our presence in order to appease the liberal hippie media outlets and ended up looking like a bunch of monkeys fucking a football

Fixed that for you.

Remember WWII - east germany and Japan were destroyed - I am not necessarily advocating dropping an a-bomb on Iraq, but IMHO, if they were going in there then the attacks should have been faster, stronger, and more efficient instead of appeasing the stupid, cnn-fixated masses.

Well it wasn't so much that we needed to blow more stuff up, it's that we needed more troops on the ground to establish order. The military leadership asked for it, Rumsfeld said no; instead opting for the 'shock and awe' strategy contrary to established military doctrine.

Rumsfeld and the Bush administration were obviously trying to do the politically expedient thing, because they knew support for the "war" (we never actually declared war) was tenuous at best. In doing so they made it much more difficult to get the job done.