swamped by quagmires
I am going to start a pledge campaign. I will not use the word 'quagmire' with respect to the invasion of Iraq. I think the war plan is a lot less than it might be and its defects will cost Iraqi and allied lives. I am not at all sure that military defeat of the Saddam tyranny followed by a Mesopotamian raj is a realistic prospect. But I will not use that word.