One of the talking points being thrown around among the chattering classes is the idea of winning in Iraq. The question that no one is asking is: what is a win in Iraq? The previous answers for that were all over the talking points map, with some people saying that it was a functioning democracy, some people saying that it was security. Those two points can be diametrically opposed, since you can have democracy without security and security without democracy.
The Bushites thought they had achieved victory once before and unfurled a banner proclaiming such on an aircraft carrier. The Pentagon started to drawn down troops in Iraq. Under pressure from neocons in the US, Cheney and Rumsfeld told Bremer to disband the Iraqi military. And all hell broke loose.
Bush has been the cause of the deaths of more Iraqis than Saddam. Will Bush be tried also?