We won the war, so Iraqis have finally come to believe. Only on the streets of Europe and America is there really a question over "if" we can win.

Again: We won. I know that will disappoint many on the Left.

And I know the response: if we already won, how come there are so many Americans still dying in Iraq.

And the answer is: there aren't a lot of Americans dying in Iraq.

3783 Americans have been killed in in Iraq over the course of 4 years.

At the Battle of Antietam, in a single day, 23,000 were killed.

At the Battle of the Bulge 19,276 Americans were killed.

It's never been a question of if we would win, only a question of if Americans would see it through to victory.

You'll definitely want to read the article below. Opinion Journal:

"We may differ with our American friends about tactics, I might not see eye to eye with them on all matters. But my message to them is one of appreciation and gratitude," he said. " To them I say, you have liberated a people, brought them into the modern world. They used to live in fear and now they live in liberty. Iraqis were cut off from the modern world, and thanks to American intervention we now belong to the world around us. We used to be decimated and killed like locusts in Saddam's endless wars, and we have now come into the light.....

"Little more than two decades ago, in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution and the Lebanon War of 1982, the American position in this region was exposed and endangered. Look around you today: Everyone seeks American protection and patronage. The line was held in Iraq; perhaps America was overly sanguine about the course of things in Iraq. But that initial optimism now behind us, the war has been an American victory. All in the region are romancing the Americans, even Syria and Iran in their own way.".....

"The truth is that the Sunnis launched this war four years ago, and have been defeated. The tribes never win wars, they only join the winners."

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