Political pundit Mort Kondracke says that we’re failing in Iraq because the American people have no stomach for a long war:

President Bush bet his presidency — and America’s world leadership — on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew. [emphasis added]

Dead wrong.

The American people can’t stomach this war because we were lied to. We were told this was about weapons of mass destruction and not about some neoconservative fantasy to redesign the Middle East. A lie.

In his resignation press conference, Rumsfeld lamented that the Iraq war is “not well-understood” and “complex for people to comprehend.” Funny to hear this coming from a man who is so profoundly ignorant of the reality in Iraq that — way back in 2003 — was telling the press that the war would last “weeks, not months.”

These chickenhawks had no idea what they were doing. They thought war was a game. And they’ve brought us disaster. Now they’re looking for someone to blame and they are pointing the finger at us, the American people.

Any time you hear condescending remarks from the Bush Administration about how we need to strengthen our resolve, blah, blah, just remember these guys are liars. They told us the job was done in 2003 and now they are blaming us that it’s still not over three years and thousands of lives later: