You'll write this off as, "oh, he's a Clinton guy."

Uhh, when you begin threads titled "President Bush is a miserable failure"
you
kind of wear your partisan heart on your sleeve.

President Bush -is- a miserable failure.

Again, I will direct your attention to the comment of the frmer DCI:

"The war is not lost -yet-."

Thanks to the Bush administration's almost criminally maladroit policies.

Or are you claiming that the
country is -now- pacified?

The great majority of Iraq is pacified. The rest we may or may not be able to
pacify before we leave, but even, God forbid, the fatalities doubled over the
next year, it would be a startling military success, and if Clinton were
still
C-in-C you would be pointing this out.

A startling military success? You do recall Vice President Cheney saying we
would be met as liberators, right?

So could it be that a startling military success had to recoup a stunning
political failure?

Walt