But I want to point out something else. What if our mission really has been accomplished? Saddam's gone, the WMD's were never there, there's a government (or at least enough of one to necessitate vacations in the summertime), so what's left? You can't occupy a country militarily until peace breaks out. That'd be somewhat like stabbing yourself to teach your body not to bleed. Can we please just declare victory (again) and start to leave? The real problem here isn't that Bush said "Mission Accomplished" only a few months into a war that's raging four years later, it's that he didn't back up his declaration with anything. If we've won then we're done.
Adding... I won't claim this quote by Senator Webb's is evidence of our influential readership, at least not until I see more examples, but look at this:
Sen. Webb (D-VA) on the president's veto: "We won this war four years ago. The question is when we end the occupation."
