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Originally Posted by scaeagles
Yes. 2.5 years. What an eternity thus far. 2.5 years from invasion to passage of a constitution. Let's see.....we declared independence in 1776, and our constitution came in 1787. 11 years. I'd say our time table thus far is looking pretty good.
I don't recall any time tables being set for being out. I recall a time table for the interim government to take over, and that was met. I recall a time table for the first election, and that was met. And I recall a time table for passage of a constitution, and admittedly, that was a couple weeks past the original date set.
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Umm, we declared independance in 1776, and immediately went under the articles of confederation.... which the US was governed(if you can call it the US being governed, as it was nothing more then a loose agreement between the different States) under for those 11 years, until the delegates came together those 11 years later(for different reasons then to write a constitution and revamp the governmental system, but I am sure you knew that) and wrote, signed, and ratified the constitution.... so the 11 years is a bit of a fallacy argument, it just took us those 11 years to realize that the governmental system that was set up wasn't working as well as it could and that we wanted something different then a confederation as a form of government.....
But even with the Iraqi constitution, it will still be a very very very long time before we are out of Iraq completely....... In my opinion anyway, tis the nature of the beast that we have unleashed....
Still, you mentioned nothing about how Bush I was right about what he predicted would happen..... because the reasons he gave for not removing Saddam have happened.