Five Years On

For perspective on this day, link to JulesCrittenden.com/2007/04/08/April-8-2003/
wherein is related a vignette of early combat in Iraq which every contemporary congressional D-rat first supported with enthusiasm.

The war against Saddam Hussein (as in Barack) was won by June 2003. Courtesy of Assad's Syria and Ahmadinejad's Iran, mop-up operations took the standard four years to complete, essentially ending in mid-summer 2007. Now that al Sadr's "Mahdi Army" is in full retreat, by Labor Day 2008 even the worst defeatists (Pelosi, Reid et al.) are due to bolt down great, heaping fewmets of proverbial crow.