Add Milton Friedman to the Right's long list of opponents of the foolish war in Iraq. "What's really killed the Republican Party isn't spending, it's Iraq," Friedman explains to a reporter, over the objections of his wife Rose, in a charming Wall Street Journal profile. "As it happens, I was opposed to going into Iraq from the beginning. I think it was a mistake, for the simple reason that I do not believe the United States of America ought to be involved in aggression."

Milton Friedman is a well known Islamic extremist.

It was a bad idea to have waged war in Iraq on the cheap from the beginning. If we were going to do it, we should have commited more resources and troops to the operation from the beginning. We did not do this and now very worthy goals are in danger of not being able to be achieved. Any time you try to do something on the cheap, the long range costs will be much higher.

Ha! That was a cute interview, that man has clearly had his hands full for 68 years, God bless him. Thanks for drawing our attention to it.

it would be nice if he said any of this three years

The allusion to "on the cheap" would imply that we had some long term goals to begin with. But wait, didn't we accomplish what we went there to do initially? We satisfied our concerns regarding WMD's and, as a bonus, displaced a brutal regime. Current affairs somehow morphed from those goals so we are unprepared and trying to support a full scale conflict at the original cost and planning of a fact finding misssion.