Reply #191: We won [View All]

[Dogtown]

because bush said "Mission Accomplished". The Iraqis didn't notice.

If our goal had been removing a regime, we might have "won".

And we'd be home. The war was about controlling/colonization and we continue to lose that war daily.

The only way we can win *is* "total destruction". If there were no Iraqis left, there would be an end to the war.

I don't mean to harp, but you are confusing "conventional war" with reality.
Conventional war has rules that both sides pretty much follow. The problem with it is, if the people don't accept the dominance of the "conventional" winners, they start killing them. The only way to stop that kind of war is to kill everybody, and all the munitions dropped on a citadel, or capitol, jungle trail or wadi won't accomplish that.

Nuclear weapons could, but the rest of the world would frown on that. And bomb fuck out of us.

Total destruction isn't good for profits and war is always and only about profit.