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Iraq is Victorious... Over the 'Foreign' U.S.?

Barack-A-Sorros Wrote: Jul 03, 2009 1:26 PM

Bush was right to remove Saddam.

Bush was wrong to listen to the Liberal Colin Powell and attempt to "fix what we broke."

Republican Presidents do much better when they ignore Liberals.

I've been stewing over something really lousy that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been saying since June 20: that Iraqis have won a "great victory" over the "foreign presence in Iraq."

That "great victory," as he calls it, is the June 30 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq's cities. That "foreign presence," as he calls it, is the United States -- the thousands of mainly young American men who have fought a vicious enemy under the harshest conditions for more than six long years, with 4,321 Americans killed, many thousands wounded, often grievously so,...