[Dominic Harr]

It's a disaster when there's no need for the 2500+ to be dead.

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It's a bridgehead against the terrorists. A 'target of opportunity'.

We picked the time and place for the battle, chose ground we want to fight on.

We took the battle *to* the enemy, and have now not been attacked on our soil in years.

The Iraq war is a cause celeb for the terrorists. They all want to go fight there. This is a *brilliant* and successful strategy.

[Chief_Joe]

We picked the time and place for the battle, chose ground we want to fight on.

Baloney. It's obvious by now it was part of their strategy not to engage us initially head on but to fight a prolonged gorilla war. Your analysis is so "MBAish", so "Wall Streetish", so "quarterly reportish". Really, you think you can just arbitrarily define success to be whatever you want it to be? You should not be so concerned about "selling" some baloney to the American public. Instead, you should be concerned with "sending" the "message" to those we're fighting.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

It's a bridgehead against the terrorists. A 'target of opportunity'. We picked the time and place for the battle, chose ground we want to fight on.

We took the battle *to* the enemy, and have now not been attacked on our soil in years.

The Iraq war is a cause celeb for the terrorists. They all want to go fight there. This is a *brilliant* and successful strategy.

This I agree with.. Cake walk is a bit much. But in principle I agree that we are not "losing"..