And so the spin begins.

What’s amazing to me is that Obama has been a defeatist on Iraq since the first days of the invasion.  One of his chief complaints against Hillary Clinton early in the primary battle - back when the situation in Iraq was not as good as it is now - was that she voted for the war while he never supported it.  He has told us time and again that he would immediately pull troops out of Iraq because the war is un-winnable.

And yet now we’re winning the war proving Obama (not to mention most of the rest of the Democrat party) dead wrong in his pronouncements, and we’re supposed to believe that helps him in his campaign?

I think it proves that he’s a short-sighted partisan hack with all the foreign policy deftness of a small town dog catcher.

The only way success in Iraq helps Obama is if the media stops talking about the war and it becomes less of an issue in the election.  Which the media will probably do given that the success in the war is as embarrassing for them as it is for Obama, but even so the fact that the war in Iraq is a victory for Bush, McCain and most Republicans in general is undeniable at this point.