Despite the best efforts of our LW and their Iranian allies to give
Iraq over to Iranian influence...  And now that it has happened the LW
and the MSM seeks to pretend its unhistorical importance...  To
acknowledge it would required the admission that their POV about Bush
was just wrong...

In reality, Bush will be remembered as a hero to Arab democracies
because he BELIEVED IN THE IRAQI PEOPLE...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/04/AR2008120402858.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

>>> For the United States, this represents the single most important 
>>> geopolitical advance in the region since Henry Kissinger turned Egypt from 
>>> a Soviet client into an American ally. If we don't blow it with too hasty a 
>>> withdrawal from Iraq, we will have turned a chronically destabilizing enemy 
>>> state at the epicenter of the Arab Middle East into an ally.

Also largely overlooked at home was the sheer wonder of the procedure
that produced Iraq's consent: classic legislative maneuvering with no
more than a tussle or two -- tame by international standards (see
YouTube: "Best Taiwanese Parliament Fights of All Time!") -- over the
most fundamental issues of national identity and direction.


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