>>>what happens in Iraq will affect national security!<<<
You should rephrase that slightly. "What HAS happened in Iraq will affect national security" is a much better description.
The global w.o.t. is understood as being a war against Al Qaeda and/or extreme Islamic fanatics which represent less than 10% of Iraq's insurgency BUT have active cells in more than 100 countries around the world. So even if someone comes up with a clever way of declaring "victory" in Iraq, how do you figure that will have a positive impact on american security?
A tiny fraction of the enemy may have been eliminated, but at what cost? An Islamic country was invaded, occupied and destroyed along with hundreds of thousands of innocent muslim civilians so try a wild guess on how that makes the rest of the world's muslim population feel. Once you've figured that out, apply it to the notion that about 1% of the world's 1 billion muslims are fanatic material and then report back with how you feel about our odds and how they have been affected by victory in Iraq.
BTW....... 1% of 1 billion is 10,000,000 and all this was started by 19 of them. Good idea to keep trying the extermination method?
