Even before the invasion, when we met at the Kuwait Hilton Hotel, a few of us reporters had a conversation about how the war in Iraq would go if it ran years, rather than months.

Thinking of Vietnam and how that one started with a rush of optimism and support from the media, I predicted that a long war in Iraq would sour back home. And when it did, that some cynical politicians would turn on the media and blame us rather than the policy or the execution of the war, as if journalists have more power than guns or governments.

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