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To: Cogito who wrote (36751)	4/24/2007 2:14:08 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541957

Viewing this issue as a black and white question of winning and losing is not a good way of understanding it. I couldn't agree more. That's been my point, that the current situation in Iraq and the War on Terror in general have much better ways to be described than as winning or losing a war. Despite that, I have no problems saying the coalition absolutely won their war with Saddam Hussein's regime, and it's not even clear to me why anyone would dispute that simple sentence. Saddam won't - he's dead. As Suma pointed out, after 9/11 we had the whole world, including much of the Islamic world, on our side. After our invasion of Iraq, millions and millions of people all over the world went from being sympathetic to being antithetic to our cause. Yup, world opinion has definitely turned against the US in the past five years. Hardly anybody, including most Americans, likes George Bush. That's one of the great things about our political system - in 20 months he and his administration and their policies will be history, and someone else will get to represent the US to the world, and hopefully improve our standing therein.