We are defeated in Iraq. We were already defeated on the day that we decided to invade. Victory was never even possible because defeat was so unthinkable that we never asked what would constitute victory. To “win” you have to actually “win something”. What was there to win in Iraq? Nothing.

We did, however,lose something: thousands of lives; tens of thousands of limbs, eyes, and brains; uncounted numbers of broken families; our reputation; our economy.

Now it’s time to stop the bleeding, bind up the wounds and–yes–cut and run. Its time for the court martials, the resignations, the reductions in grade, and the political repercussions that follow, rightly, in the way of a catastrophic defeat.

We lost in Iraq.

Just happen to be rolling over hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi people on our way out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…..e_Iraq_War

By the way what is happening with those 5 million Iraqi refugees?

When the country you “liberated” thinks you did such a bang up job that they make the day you turn tail and leave a national holiday, you know its ‘mission accomplished’ .. don’t let the door hit you on the way out…. ;P

I read somewhere — and no, I don’t remember where, somewhere on the intertubes, I suppose — that the “departure of U.S. combat troops from Iraqi towns and cities” is being effected by either a) redrawing city lines so that U.S. bases are no longer within the city limits, b) re-designating U.S. combat troops as U.S. non-combat troops or c) both a and b. If that’s the case, this is not a famous victory.