I was prepared to write another blog entry about America’s disastrous involvement in Iraq - and why we need to withdraw our troops immediately. Then I started reading the morning paper about the president’s surge strategy and thought a bit about it. I reflected on what I had learned from the recent testimony of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. I realized I had it all wrong - we’ve made tremendous progress in Iraq! Here are some crucial benchmarks:
- Training more Iraqi troops to fight is no longer a priority - and fewer priorities make success more achievable!
- As deplorable as the recent deaths of nine American soldiers and the injuring of 20 others by a suicide bomber were - it wasn’t the worst single attack (e.g. on December 14, 2004 a suicide bomber killed 14 soldiers) - an example of how far we’ve progressed!
- The British withdrawal of troops from southern Iraq means we have less territory covered with allied forces - the battlefield is shrinking - another sign of success!
In fact, as I look at these benchmarks, training troops, reducing deadly attacks and establishing safety in Iraq - far from losing this war, we’ve won it! To those naysayers who claim we have not won - you are treasonous defeatists who hate your country. You, who argue against American victory, do not deserve to live in President Bush’s America. I don’t think we can ever do justice to the war’s architects and to President Bush, Vice President Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld - but surely their names will go down in history!
I have always been against this war and argued three years ago that we should withdraw our troops. I am not too proud to admit when I am wrong. I am not too proud to admit when President George W. Bush is right. We have won. Bring our troops home.
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