Congress should simply declare victory.

[SoonerPride]

I now propose that the Congress unilaterally declare victory. This cannot be spun - like arbitray timelines can - as cutting and running or path to defeat or giving our enemies a timeline of our gameplan of withdrawal or any such nonsense.

We simply say we won the game, take our ball and go home. We say "we've trained enough Iraqis to police the country, we've done our job, we win, bye bye."

The Democrats have taken entirely the wrong tack in trying to end the war by pointing out its un-winnability. That stinks of defeatism and reality. People don't want that. Reality bites.

Instead, they make their own gi-normous "Mission Accomplished" banner, drape it over the Senate, take a few pictures in front of it and declare the war in Iraq over, because we won it. Then you bring the troops home.

The legislation hits the Presidents desk. He can either agree we won or veto it and say we lost or are losing and must continue fighting forever.

I now urge all of you to hit every blog, web portal, chat room, activist organization and urge Congresss to declare victory now as the only sensible way to bring our troops home.

[CGowen]

1. Bush is doing something like this

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2085981,00.html


The Bush administration is developing plans to "internationalise" the Iraq crisis, including an expanded role for the United Nations, as a way of reducing overall US responsibility for Iraq's future and limiting domestic political fallout from the war as the 2008 election season approaches.

The move comes amid rising concern in Washington that President George Bush's controversial Baghdad security surge, led by the US commander, General David Petraeus, is not working and that Iran is winning the clandestine battle for control of Iraq.

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[SoonerPride]

2. not quite

I'm not talking about getting other countries involved, widening the effort, or anything of the sort. This doesn't involve diplomacy and doesn't need anyone else to even participate.

Congress simply passes a law which says "We won the war in Iraq, now the troops come home."

You send that bill to Bush.

He either has to say we've NOT won the war and admit defeat, or we did win the war and the troops come home.

The Democrats have gone about this all wrong. Their goal has been noble, but selling how un-winnable Iraq is has been unpleasant. As people flip from Lost to American Idle they glance at the news and see Democrats bemoan how woeful everything is. What a drag. They're the Debbie Downer party. Screw that. Put on a happy face!

Sell it as a victory. We've trained enough Iraqis, we've accomplished our goals, Iraq is fine, success is not "no violence" as Bush himself has said, so we win and we bring the troops home.

Simple.
Effective.
The best way forward.

I urge everyone to spread the word. We won the war in Iraq. Congress needs to pass this legislation.