Reasons for War

So I was trooling around on the web looking for a PDF called "How to Win In Anbar". I found it, but haven't figured out how I can post it here as viewable within the blog... Keep working on that, but I digress. I found this comment and had to laugh:

"See, whatever reason that American troops were sent to Iraq in the first place isn't important (something about Americans invited into Iraq as peacekeepers, or something), they're there now, fighting for freedom. It isn't America's fault that Iraqis are incapable of democracy. They only understand violence. Americans are referees, really. They are trying their hardest to help those ungrateful people who don't love their children the way westerners do. All they need is more body armor and troops to help the democratic process. Iraqis are like children, who need the guiding hand of a benevolent and selfless parent, who isn't afraid to use the belt when that child misbehaves...

Sorry, I was channeling the Democrats there for a second. Ever since the election, the war's rationale has undergone a cognitive sidestep: It's all the Iraqis fault."

It seems that the reasons keep changing, and the mission is never actually defined in any measurable or achievable way regardless of who has control. Frustrating.