The new prime minister has also linked Al Qaeda and Saddam, however, so he is obviously an American tool.

Kronos

Of course he's a tool of the Right Wing Hate Machine, I mean who would thank America for deposing Saddam and then turning over control of the country to Iraqis? America is to be condemned for their Imperialist aims and their bloodlust for oil. Damn the Billions spent to help Iraqis and the soldiers lost to free them from tyranny, cant he see that it is all just a plot cooked up in Texas so Halliburton can increase their profits? What an idiot.

Ace, you left out that the Iraqis have assumed full control of the oil ministry.

Some war for oil, huh? You'd think we weren't a bunch of racist, imperialist, colonialist and mercantilists.

Im afraid of speaking too soon but is it possible we may have turned the corner in Iraq?
5 years from now, will the liberals be discussing how "we" won the war as they do in regards to the Cold War?

Golden Boy,

Perhaps you've been reading something I have not, but I've never seen any liberal state that "we" won the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union was dumb luck, a mere fortuity, or else a bad thing (repressive American capitalist pig-dogs ruining a blissful communist utopia for no reason other than spite and greed). Given their failure to acknowledge that the Cold War was actually won, and didn't just die of old age, I think that no, liberals are not at all likely to be discussing how "we" won the War on Terror while they are still liberals.

Aaron,

I see your point but I guess it depends on the liberal in question and what day it is. Bill Clinton once explained to the Washington Post regarding the Cold War, "We had an intellectually coherent thing. The American people knew what the rules were." I guess the rules included draft dodging and leading protests against one of the key campaigns of the Cold War.
Reagan himself addressed this in his final speech at the 1992 Republican Convention: "I heard those speakers at that other convention saying 'we won the Cold War'-- and I couldn't help wondering, just who exactly do they mean by 'we'?"

I agree with Aaron.

It was clear to everyone at the that that Jihadism was an archaic holdover from the Middle Ages, inevitably to be driven from the world stage by modernity. Experts all agreed that the Middle East was slowly reforming itself and democracy would have soon flourished with rights for women, free speech, and the embracing of religious diversity, secularism, and even the separation of church and state.

In fact, the War on Terror only prolonged reactionary radicalism's existence by inflaming the Arab steet. Not to mention all the innocent people who died, the domestic costs, and the cultural chauvinism it demonstrated.

Here at work and was listening to the Reagan Funeral on the radio. Had to change the channel.

They were playing 'Hail to the Chief,' then the 21 gun salute. 'Hail to the Chief' got to me but then when I heard 'Amazing Grace,' I just had to change it.

Sigh. Sometimes its hard to be a woman.

You think that's bad? Try bursting into tears at work when you're a man! The best you can hope for is to make up something about being hit in the crotch by a rogue computer peripheral. :-)