It’s good to hear this admission of victory, though I still can’t help but view such a sudden turnabout a little suspiciously.

It’s an obvious feint, by O and the entire Defeatocrat party. Iraq? Nothing to see here, folks, let’s move it along. It was never important anyway. Anybody coulda done it. No, no, the “real war” is in Afghanistan, and O is a mighty warrior ready to lead the intrepid Democrat fighting team into those forsaken hillsides and start blasting bad guys with his eye beams.

How can Iraq be a “victory” if it never really mattered? How can O get flak for being wrong about a non-event?

Of course, as I recall, the Left was adamantly opposed to Afghanistan (still waiting on that “brutal Afghan winter” to wipe out the entire US Army…) up until we went into Iraq. Then suddenly Afghanistan became the “real war” where “the people who attacked us” lived and Bush was nothing more than a Hitlerian war monger making up stories about WMDs and eating children for oil, or whatever it was, “invading” a country that was a veritable Peaceable Kingdom of kite flying children. (Didn’t Michael Moore show us that? It hadda be true.)

The entire Left narrative flipped on a dime. And if Bush turned around and abandoned Iraq for Afghanistan, the Left would flip again. The bottom line is simple: they are opposed to anything that might help America. Their frenzied opposition to Iraq, more than anything else, told me it was probably a good idea.