I wonder if the crazy-left will ever admit that we won in Iraq.


I saw General Petraeus interviewed on Fareed Zakaria (complete program here)

1) it was allegedly about "blood for oil", but both China and Britain have gotten far better deals on oil from Iraq since the war than the United States did.

2) Casualties in Iraq have become "virtually non-existent" over the last year, as the Al Qaida leadership has fled to regroup in Afghanistan.

3) the liberal allegation that the U.S. wanted to occupy Iraq forever has been disproven by the U.S.'s willingness to leave. Barring a massive insurgent effort, we'll drop to less than 50,000 troops in Iraq by the end of this year, and be completely gone from the country by the end of 2011.

4) contrary to liberal bemoaning of chaos in Iraq, yet another election is occcurring in Iraq, and it manifests an abundance of political factions and splinter parties having arisen to represent all groups. And increasing cooperation and coalitions of various political groups in Iraq, to build the consensus to get things done within their country. They're learning to work together.

The war is over, the U.S. and democracy won in Iraq. And Iraq is on a path toward great prosperity.

Bush's vision of a democracy in the heart of the Arab world --far from being a naive delusion-- has largely been achieved. With some rough edges admittedly, but growing increasingly independent, prosperous and stable, despite the best efforts to intimidate Iraqis into abandoning democracy, by terrorist fringe elements.
(or as Whomod, Ray Adler and Michael Moore like to call these fanatics beheading innocent people, "freedom fighers")

Reports about the current Iraq election, and panel discussion of it, in today's Fox News Sunday program on Hulu here