[LS]

Regardless, the military and/or SS should never have allowed that to happen, PR imaging aside. It could have been a grenade. And we had that sumbitch war won when Zero came in and unraveled everything. Read Michael Yon’s war memos.

[mylife]

Agreed, it was sewn up.

[Alberta's Child]

If it had been a grenade, then the President of the United States would have been facing the same "green on green" attacks that U.S. troops had been facing over there for more than five years by that point. That sure would have been some poetic justice, eh?

And we had that sumbitch war won when Zero came in and unraveled everything. Read Michael Yon’s war memos.

No, we didn't. Nobody ever defined what "victory" meant, so we just left a house of cards behind and got the hell out. It was Bush, not Obama, who signed the Status of Forces Agreement that laid out the time line for the withdrawal of U.S. forces. In fact, I believe the December 2008 shoe-throwing incident took place at an event staged in Iraq to commemorate that agreement.

"I think for us to get American military personnel involved in a civil war inside Iraq would literally be a quagmire."

"I do not think the United States wants to have U.S. military forces accept casualties and accept the responsibility of trying to govern Iraq. I think it makes no sense at all."

--- U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney (April 7, 1991)