“Military, economic, political and all the benchmarks that we said that the Iraqi government had to meet. They haven’t got them all, but the fact that the government is functioning effectively, the economic situation is improving dramatically, the Iraqi government now has control of the major cities of Mosul, Basra and Sadr City as well as Baghdad…. Do they have a lot more to go? A distance to go? Yes, and it’s very fragile. It can be reversed. But they’ve succeeded.”
Translation: Mission Accomplished!
First, we couldn’t leave until we won.
But now that we’ve won, we still can’t leave.
That’s because the mission has ALWAYS been to STAY IN IRAQ.
And on that score, we’ve succeeded.
My friends, it gets curioser and curioser!
Sounds like Bush’s tax policy. First, we had to lower taxes because there was a budget surplus. Then, we had to lower taxes because there was a budget deficit. As usual, facts are irrelevant to ideology.