He told you so.

Other People's Sacrifice: "It's now clear that the Iraq war was the mother of all bait-and-switch operations. Mr. Bush and his officials portrayed the invasion of Iraq as an urgent response to an imminent threat, and used war fever to win the midterm election. Then they insisted that the costs of occupation and reconstruction would be minimal, and used the initial glow of battlefield victory to push through yet another round of irresponsible tax cuts.

Now almost half the Army's combat strength is bogged down in a country that wasn't linked to Al Qaeda and apparently didn't have weapons of mass destruction, and Mr. Bush tells us that he needs another $87 billion, right away. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but I (like many others) told you so. Back in February I asked, 'Is this administration ready for the long, difficult, quite possibly bloody business of rebuilding Iraq?' The example of Afghanistan (where warlords rule most of the country, and the Taliban %u2014 remember those guys? %u2014 is resurgent) led me to doubt it. And I was, alas, right."