The War Is Over In Iraq
We won, but nobody seems to care.
October 27, 2008: The war is over. Most of the noise these days is from politicians arguing, not bombs going off. There are still bombs, but now they tend to be assassination attempts, as some political parties play dirty (not unknown in this part of the world). . . .
Iraq has revived its diplomatic relations with Kuwait, including reopening the Kuwaiti embassy and making an earnest attempt to settle issues (mainly reparations and missing persons) still remaining from the Iraqi occupation of 1990-91. . . .
Iraqis now concentrate on more mundane things, like a serious drought, and the difficulties in attracting doctors, and other professionals, back to Iraq (after they fled the violence of the past few years.)
The liberation of Iraq should go down as the crowning achievement of the Bush administration. President Bush has been right about the decision to invade Iraq since day one, though admittedly not always right on how we should have been waging that war. But ultimately, and thanks to the leadership of General David Petraeus, we found what worked in Iraq.
If Democrats like Harry Reid and Barack Obama had their way on Iraq we’d have left the country long ago, abandoning a partially-formed democracy to the machinations of terrorists and rogue states like Iran. But thankfully President Bush showed leadership, stuck to his guns in Iraq, and where was once a terror-sponsoring totalitarian state now flourishes a representative government.
An imperfect representative government that is still struggling with serious issues, to be sure, but certainly a vast improvement over Saddam Hussein’s regime for the 8,000,000+ Iraqis who live in the country.
