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Originally Posted by greenjoker
Or will that be Bush's ongoing legacy into the next century?
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The war is pretty much won already. I say pretty much won because many of you folks here and your ilk still have the ability to "unwin" it. The only serious threat to Coalition forces (defined as capable of forcing it to retreat) during OIF were naysayers in the US in cahoots with an anti-Bush media. The results, painful and costly as they are, are breathtaking:
1. Removal of one of the most active agents of instability in the world (Saddam)
2. Facilitation of a functional, elected government that replaced a dictatorship
3. Facilitation of a booming economy along with oil production greater than pre-OIF
4. A dramatic drop in support of terrorism across the entire Middle East region
5. The rise of the best-trained COIN and asymmetric warfare fighting force in world history
6. A new ally in what has been the most troublesome region of the world for the past several decades
And I'm not sure why you think only Republicans are participating in OIF. Coalition forces from many nations are of every political and religious stripe.
The strongest enemy was never in Iraq, but it lives here in the states today. It is an army of folks whose political fervor precludes them from seeing the changes in Iraq and surrounding countries, and in many cases precludes them from acknowledging pre-2002 history.