Message to the Democrats: We've Won the War in Iraq

Today's Washington Post has an editorial by a group of Democratic graybeards saying that only the Democrats can end the war in Iraq. I hate to break the news to them, but they're a little bit late on this one. The war is over. We won.

In January of 1945, the Allies had yet to capture Berlin. Casualties still occurred. Despite these two facts, just about everyone on both sides knew the game was over. That's where we are right now.

I searched and searched through the article to find anything worth quoting, but only managed to come up with this.

Despite the Democratic presidential candidates' expressed commitment to ending the war in Iraq, there is unease among the party's base. Some ardent activists have suggested that upon election, a new Democratic president will come under inordinate pressure to sustain the U.S. military commitment to Iraq, albeit with some modifications. This concern demonstrates both the difficulty of ending a controversial war and the necessity of doing so.

There's not much else to work with. Bush is a jerk and we need to spend the money at home is the theme. Even if we surrendered immediately and fled, we still don't need to spend the money at home, we need to stop spending the money at all. But that's another story.

In the meantime, the casualty rate has dropped dramatically, a key metric for fighting an Islamofascist terror campaign. The various political factions are finding common ground and are beginning to govern as a liberal democracy. One of the few, remaining crime kingpins, Muqtada al Sadr, is taking a pass on renewing his campaign of violence, knowing he'd get his brains beaten out if he did.

The war is just about over. We won. Maybe someone needs to tell the Democrats that.