I now understand what is victory in Iraq. I understand why the far right never cared about the chaos, and continues to deny the reality on the ground.
We are fighting the wrong war with them. I have been thinking about the wrong kind of victory. The long war is with fascism at home, not democracy in Iraq.
He will get the victory of not being the president in charge when the last helicorpter leaves, like this:
http://www.mishalov.com/...
He will get the facist victory in 20 years when the economy is collapsing from oil shocks. The next Bush generation can claim "we were stabbed in the back by the liberals". (Jews will come in for special blame, as if this were not some ultra-christian regime.)
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