This article paints a fascinating picture about how things are going on the ground in Iraq. If things pan out the way the trend is now pointing, it will be one of history's cruel jokes that Pres. Bush is blamed for the war, and Pres. Obama gets the credit. Read the article here.
Two key paragraphs are the following:
A nationwide poll of Iraqis reveals that "60 percent expect things to get better next year - almost three times as many as a year and a half ago," McCarthy continued. "Iraqis are slowly discovering they have a future. We flew south to Basra, where 94 percent say their lives are going well. Oil is plentiful here. So is money." ...
Even now, with a stubbornness born of partisan hostility or political ideology, there are those who cannot bring themselves to utter the words "victory" and "Iraq" in the same sentence. But six years after the war began, it is ending in victory. As in every war, the price of that victory was higher than we would have wished. The price of defeat would have been far higher.
Thomas More
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