The past 3 years?
We've be fighting al-Qaeda and Sunnis insurgents in the North.
We've been training 350,000 Iraqi Security forces, now with many new Sunni recruits.
It's show time now against the Shia Militias. And we've got the power of the Iraqi Security forces backed by a constitutionally enpowered Iraqi government to help clean up its own fat-boy mess.
That's been the plan all along.
You think you know better than the generals.
You're "absurd".
We havent had a headline grabbing, we are serious about this war action in 3 years. This has allowed the left and the media to rightly cry that we are mired down, with no plan for victory. You telling me that it was our plan to have our troops act as crossing guards this whole time only to get the go signal today?