"How we’ve won the war in Iraq"...Reality will show her face soon....

[Flabbergasted]

Why are our casualties at all time highs if "We've won the war"?
troop casualties

Oct-06 106
Nov-06 70
Dec-06 112
Jan-07 83
Feb-07 81
Mar-07 81
Apr-07 104
May-07 126
Jun-07 101
Jul-07 78
Aug-07 84
Sep-07 63
Total 3804

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article2557630.ece

How we’ve won the war in Iraq
From The Sunday Times
September 30, 2007


In a controversial account of the war, Bartle Bull, long-time Iraq correspondent, says the mission is almost accomplished: all-out civil war has been avoided, democracy accepted and life goes on despite the bloodshed


With most Sunni factions now seeking a deal, the big questions in Iraq have been resolved positively. The country remains one, it has embraced the ballot box and avoided all-out civil war. What violence remains is largely local and criminal.

snip

The United Nations approved the coalition’s role in May 2003 and the mandate has been renewed annually since then, most recently this August. Meanwhile, the other side in this war are among the worst people in global politics: Ba’athists, the Nazis of the Middle East; Sunni fundamentalists, the chief opponents of progress in Islam’s struggle with modernity; and the government of Iran. Ethically, causes do not come much clearer than this one.

Some just wars, however, are not worth fighting. There are countries that do not matter very much to the rest of the world. Rwanda is one tragic example and its case illustrates the immorality of a completely pragmatic foreign policy. But Iraq, the world’s axial country since the beginning of history and all the more important in the current era for probably possessing the world’s largest reserves of oil, is no Rwanda. Nor do two or three improvised explosive devices a day, for all the personal tragedy involved in each casualty, make a Vietnam.

Three and a half years after the start of the insurgency, most of the big questions in Iraq have been resolved. The country is whole. It has embraced the ballot box. It has created a fair and popular constitution. It has avoided all-out civil war. It has not been taken over by Iran. It has put an end to Kurdish and marsh Arab genocide and antiShi’ite apartheid. It has rejected mass revenge against the Sunnis.

[kenny blankenship]

1. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq--Hey we're on a roll!

[spanone]

2. the pentagon was bragging that ONLY 62 were killed in Sept.

that's only good if you're not one of the 62 or an acquaintance

[Aristus]

3. The "sovereign" government of Iraq demanded the removal of the Blackwater merceneries.

The occupying power said "No."

So much for sovereignity. :eyes: