What exactly would constitute victory? The original intent was to go in, remove Saddam and his regime and get out. We’ve now moved onto Nation Building. We were and are really bad at that with hostile areas. Fortunately Patreaus at least is turning it around.
And we should let Petraeus (I think of him as The Master) finish; the impression I get is that RP won’t let him, however screwed up Iraq still is.
And once you remove Saddam, who do you replace him with? Or do you leave it as a grab bag for Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds, Iranians, and Syrians?