” ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ consistently received around five times more U.S. funding than ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ in Afghanistan. And Iraq consumed the bulk of President Bush’s focus and effort. Senior U.S. intelligence official David Gordon recalls [in an interview with journalist Peter Bergen on October 15, 2009]: ‘The president was just way too committed to Iraq to think about changing the weight of the commitments.’ “
– Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 182