Reply #1: The funny thing is we "won" when he originally said we won.

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If we had removed the majority of our troops immediately after "Mission Accomplished" and left only the bare minimum necessary to hunt down Saddam Hussein, Bush's legacy would have been far better. He called it correctly the first time.

It is wrong to continue calling this conflict a "war." We are not fighting the state. Regime change happened years ago. The WMDs are gone. We have surpassed the standards of victory circa 2003 LONG ago. What we are doing in Iraq is not only pointless, but also potentially counterproductive -- lots of accidental civilian casualties = a whole generation of America-haters and a few potential vengeful and suicidal terrorists.

Bush, Cheney, and their war-profiteering cronies kept us there longer than necessary. Hope they enjoyed that $10B/month over the past four years.