1346 Days.

12/7/1941 through 8/14/1945. Between those two dates, the United States went from a nation at peace with small standing Army and a (frankly) outdated Navy to winning World War II. In those few short years, we became the free world's arsenal, mobilized millions of men and women, and not only helped to take down Hitler's fearsome war machine, but hopped from island to island across the Pacific to bring down the Japanese Empire. We had a goal, and planned for what would happen once the war had ended. We helped to reshape the world.

I bring this up because our involvement in Iraq just passed World War II in terms of length. We have no plan, no one thought about what to do after Saddam fell, and because Bush is trying to do this on the cheap, we're stuck in the middle of another quagmire.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/24/0620/2153