Is the Iraq War already won? Already lost? Or Pointless Stalemate?

[kennetha]

My fear about Gates staying on as Secretary of Defense is that he will try to "re-educate" Obama's National Security Staff about the state of the war. But maybe I'm just a paranoid worrier!

[bunnies]

1. Doesnt matter. Iraq wants us out.

Game over.

[JeffR]

2. Other. It's not a war, it's an occupation, unwinnable by its very nature.

It's time to end it.

[Epiales]

5. Hear hear.

Politically motivated, immorally executed, sickeningly perpetuated.
A colossal waste of both blood and treasure. It must end immediately.

[Demobrat]

3. What war? There is no war and never was.

There was an invasion and an occupation.

[dipsydoodle]

4. None of them

You can't win an invasion.

[kenny blankenship]

6. US foreign policy objectives in Iraq are sunk in defeat, along with a trillion dollars

The aim was criminal to begin with, and it has also failed as a practical matter. Iraq is a satellite of Iran now not our little buddy. We don't know how to hold it together and we don't know how to drag it into our corner. America bleeds its life blood in its futile attempts to subdue Iraq, but if America leaves Iraq many fear that the humiliation will weaken us further. So America continues to row up the great river of denial, abusing itself with even more infantile fantasies that "oh oh oh if we leave now there'll be a humanitarian disaster!"

[kennetha]

7. You about nailed it, as far as I'm concerned.

[WinkyDink]

8. The premise is faulty: THERE IS NO "WAR". We ILLEGAL OCCUPIERS are being repelled by Iraqi

CITIZENS. When we leave, we'll stop dying there. If we stay, we will continue to die there. Patriotism is not the sole province of Americans.
That weaponry is involved does not make this a war in common parlance.