Great piece about the war

[KingFlorez]

Found this on Politics1:

http://www.politics1.com/blog-1106.htm#1114

EDITORIAL: BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME. NOW.
I received several emails critical of my sparse Veteran's Day comment of "Support Our Troops: Bring Them Home." Let me explain my reasoning in slightly greater detail. We already won the Iraq war: Saddam Hussein was ousted from power and now awaits execution in a jail cell, and Iraqis cast ballots in a subsequent free election (free, at least, by Middle East standards). Yes, I said it: we WON the war. Thus -- and here is where I turn pessimistic -- whether we pull out tomorrow or in six months or in two years or in ten years, the result will be the same. Iraq will immediately sink further into civil war and instability. There is nothing we can do to permanently ward it off -- we can only delay it slightly -- and continuing to pretend otherwise is to simply allow more and more American soldiers die for no good reason. Let Iraqis determine the future of Iraq. Maybe it needs to be partitioned into three nations (one Sunni, one Shiite and one Kurdish) -- as that was the solution that worked for the bifurcated Turkish/Greek nations of Cyprus, and also for India/Pakistan. There are lots of other "maybes" but we will fail if we attempt to impose them from the outside. Iraqis must decide their future, their fate. Yes, the future Iraqi government is likely to be more anti-American than Saddam, but there is nothing we can do about that. To any invaded nation in the post-invasion days, there is a very thin line between welcomed liberators and hated occupiers. Like I said, the only difference is how many American kids will be condemned to die to an ill-conceived and incoherent post-war mission. Our time in Iraq where we could do any good has long since ended. The only sensible decision for us to make -- if we truly support our brave American men and women in uniform -- is whether we want to see six more months of dead American soldiers coming home in coffins, or two more years of it, or ten more years of it. Because -- to cut through the rhetoric -- that's all we're really arguing about. To continue there is simply masochistic and vainglorious insanity. As of today, there have been 2,853 US soldiers killed in Iraq (and over 20,000 wounded). How more more need to die before it's time to end this war? Let's bring out soldiers home. All of them. Now.