thinking russia is the badguy in ossetia is like saying ...

[The Ghost of RubangB]

I don't know what success means in Iraq because I don't know what our goal is in Iraq.


Our first goal was to dismantle WMDs but there weren't any. We lied about enriched uranium and that didn't work.

Our next goal was to stop Al-Qaeda in Iraq but they were never there. We lied about ties to Al-Qaeda and that didn't work.

Our next goal was to liberate Iraqis but that started a civil war and made the region an orgy of terrorist recruitment.

Our next goal was to take the oil and run but they're already signing oil contracts with China and leaving us out, biting us in the ass.

I guess our next goal is to build our biggest military base there so we can always have a presence in the Middle East to keep pressure on the other wackos around there? I guess we're successfully building it?

I really don't care what we're doing over there anymore, because it's costing too much American money and too many American lives.

If we have another goal over there I don't know about, I'd love to know. How are we succeeding, and at what are we succeeding this time?