so have we been doing over there?

Kristol: "We Have Not Had A Serious Three-Year Effort To Fight A War In Iraq"

This morning on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, one of the staunchest defenders of the administration's policy in Iraq, said the war in Iraq was not a "serious effort."

Transcript:

BILL KRISTOL: There would not be civil war if Zarqawi had not spent the last 2 1/2 years - had ex-Saddamists with him, very skillfully going on the offensive slaughtering Shia in Karbala, now blowing up the mosque.

CHRIS WALLACE: They're there. There are going to be more mosques to blow up. What do you do about the terrorists?

KRISTOL: Kill them. Defeat them.

CHRIS WALLACE: We've been trying.

KRISTOL: We've been trying, and our soldiers are doing terrifically, but we have not had a serious three-year effort to fight a war in Iraq as opposed to laying the preconditions for getting out.

CICI CONNELLY: I think that really begs the question then: what have we been doing over there for three-plus years? You say there hasn't been a serious effort to rid that region of the terrorists. I just wonder what secretary Rumsfeld would say in response to that or all the U.S. soldiers who have been over there all this time.

KRISTOL: Secretary Rumsfeld's plan was to draw town to 30,000 troops at the end of major activities.

Essentially, Kristol claims the Iraq war - which he was sure would be a smashing success - isn't working out because Donald Rumsfeld is Michael Moore.

Another question: Mr. Kristol, if the administration's policy in Iraq the last three years has not been a "serious effort" why have you spent the last three years defending it?

UPDATE: Crooks and Liars has the video.

(Think Progress)
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Well, why hasn't bush taken this seriously for 3 years?

WTF kind of argument is this?!