  JUST POLITICS? Here's an interesting quote from the Sunday talk shows: I think a thorough misunderstanding of how complex the politics of Iraq are and continue to be; an inability to understand the decapitation theory -- that is, getting rid of the top types while the workers continue -- wasn't going to work.
In other words, the basic assumptions, whoever was making them, at State, at NSC, at Defense, simply were inadequate to begin with. So who said this? That crazy anti-war Howard Dean? Dick Gephardt? John Kerry? Nope, it was urlLink Richard Lugar Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The claims that all the criticism of Bush's Iraq policy is just politics from disgruntled anti-war types get more hollow by the day. 
