We just should never have gone there in the first place, for all the reasons predicted before the war. For all the reasons Bush was warned it would be a quagmire. For all the reasons Bush Sr. and Cheney knew before the war.

There’s a reason we didn’t invade Baghdad in Desert Storm. There’s a reason Dick Cheney said during the elder Bush administration that an occupation in Iraq would take a decade or more and cost many thousands of lives.

There’s also a reason that Cheney said it would take “months, not years” in 2003. He was fucking lying.