I don't know....I still see that fat toad Al-Sadr making waves...and until the Iraqi Govt. can keep people like that from fomenting unrest, they are still on pretty shaky ground.
NOW, having said that...I will defend to the death that what HAS been accomplished is almost miraculous..when compared to Germany and Japan...and I am very proud of Bush.
BUT, I am kind of in the wait and see mode...especially with this flare up in Israel/Lebanon/Syria.. and possibly Iran.
IF they can keep their heads...and not fall into the same rhetoric as Iran and other nations re: everything is Israel's fault...I will be more prepared to pat them on the backs.
As I said in my post to Peach, I'm not disagreeing with either of your assessments of Iraq. They are truly barely hanging on, but they are on the right track. Russia, on the other hand, has been falsely portrayed, IMHO, as having a stable and successful government in the post Soviet era.
I think that the DBM has been handing us something and trying to convince us it was Shinola.