Winning the War (1)

Winning a war is easy, if you carefully define what winning means.

You can win a war several times, if you keep changing you definition of victory.

George W Bush has managed this well. He announced that the Iraq war was won when the army rangers entered Bagdad. He announced that the war was won again in 2003, when he landed an S3 Viking on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf. I suppose that it felt like a war was won.

The war was won when Saddam Hussein was captured, and again when he was sentenced to death.

The war has been won again with the defeat of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, although it did not exist before the US invasion. It is a bit odd winning a war against your own creation. Actually, Al-Qaeda in Iraq has not been defeated. Most members have just moved to Afghanistan and other countries where the Crusader Invader is more vulnerable.

George W could easily win this war seven or eight times, before his Presidency is all washed up.

John the Jaw and Obama the Llama have got onto the same bandwagon. John the Jaw is going to keep troops in Iraq for a hundred years. If he keeps changing the objective, he will be able to announce the war is won every few years. That could work out to nearly fifty wars being won. Wow.

Obama the lama is going to get stuck into Afghanistan and win a war there. He does not realise that George W won that war a few years ago. But that does not matter, most Americans have forgotten that too. If Obama works his objectives right, he could win the war in Afghanistan several times.

Ralph Nader is looking back to Vietnam. Why not? Get the right spin doctors on the job and set the right objectives, America could win that war again too.