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Iraq is a failure to those who have zero connection to the men and women who reenlist to go back in record numbers.

The only people who agree with Buckley's false assertions are those who require failure to justify their pre-war predictions.

I do not hate the troops enough to call their successful efforts a failure.

Some might be selfish enough to do this. I'm not one of them.

I have first hand knowledge of those who serve in my nephew. He is not a failure. He is a success. He is the future. He is not hiding behind his past accomplishments.

There may be those here who come to the defense of Buckley. They are either loyalists or Daily Kos rejects trolling the boards.

Either way, detestable.

Embrace the latest FAKE Iraq Civil War Story.

I will applaud our troops continued successes as they reenlist to go back.

But then again, I guess only 'stupid failures' would reenlist to continue a failed mission.

I do not reflexively accept that we "lost" Vietnam or that it was wrong. Nor Iraq.

In fact I have not commented on the matter since being diverted by absurd and derogatory attacks on William Buckley that made no good argument contrary to his editorial views on the war.

Buckley is not asserting that Iraq is a military failure. His point is that anything short of establishing a stable democratic government in Iraq will be perceived as a policy failure.

I have an active duty family member and ultimate success or failure in Iraq will have little reflection on him and his brothers in arms.