Reply #7: It was.

[Delano]

Even liberal pundits thought so. Iraq put up almost no fight against our onslaught, and for some reason never bothered to use the massive stockpiles of WMD they had lying around(sarcasm).

The disagreement was what would happen after. The 'pugs said there would be the flowers, then instant democracy that would magically spread to all the middle east.

The real libs (the ones who didn't jump on the Bush war wagon) were saying that it would throw the country into turmoil and without the strongman Saddam, the ethnic and religious divisions would tear the country apart. I don't remember either side predicting the tenacity and breadth of the resistance of all parties to US occupation, but I don't find it surprising in light of what happened when we tried to force our will onto Vietnam.

Invasion=cakewalk

Occupation=nightmare

That's the way it usually goes, but these people never learn...