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Monday, October 17, 2005

Iraq's Accomplishments

John Hawkins takes a minute to review how many accomplishments we have achieved in Iraq since March 2003. (I'll add a couple: the creation of the first Arab democracy in the history of the world and letting Clinton off the hook for his official "regime change" policy, which made official US policy a joke in the eyes of the world's dictators.) Additionally, this list doesn't include the democratic revolutions in the Ukraine and Lebanon, democratic movements in Egypt and the dismantling of Libya's WMD and nuclear programs, all thanks to the Iraq invasion.

Regardless of the criticism from the Left and its comparison to Vietnam, the US has achieved as much during the first two years in Iraq as it has in most of the wars in US history. I just wonder what argument the Left will use when the terrorism in Iraq dies down.