01 / August
01 / August
Six Weeks? Last Throes? Mission Accomplished?

In 2005, Vice President Cheney said that the Iraq insurgency was in its "last throes." In May 2003, President Bush declared "mission accomplished" in Iraq. Former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld guessed before the war, "It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." It's August 1, 2007, four years, four months, and thirteen days after the Iraq war started. The War Between the States, World Wars I and II, and the Korean war all lasted less than the Iraq war has. This is because those wars involved defeating an enemy. This war is about the regeneration of a society. Concrete goals, not abstractions, make for mission accomplished, six-week wars, and putting the enemy in the final throes.

posted at 12:01 AM
Comments

if the serbian war is over why are we still there?

Posted by: tagmnbagm on August 1, 2007 08:18 AM

Ditto for Korea.

Posted by: asdf on August 1, 2007 08:40 AM

The Korean War, and the situation in South Korea afterwards, are SO UNlike the Iraq War and its aftermath.

Posted by: ubefrau on August 1, 2007 01:30 PM

hey gooberfrau, if we had left korea 5yrs. after the ceasefire what would have happened?

Posted by: tagmnbagm on August 1, 2007 01:51 PM

I think you might be conceding gooberfrau's point by including the word "ceasefire." In other words, the Korean war and the wars in Yugoslavia ceased and we stayed. There has been no similar cessation of armed hostilities in Iraq, which is why gooberfrau is saying the situation is different. Anyhow, as for your and ASDF's questions, I wonder the same thing myself: why are we still there?

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