How do you know when you've lost a war?

How Do You Know You've Lost a War
A. Alexander, February 18th, 2007

How do you know when you've lost a war? Is it when the country you are supposedly fighting to save decides to start fighting one another and shooting your soldiers, too? Is it after you've spent more than a quarter-trillion dollars on the war and it only gets worse? Have you lost the war when a large majority of the occupied country wants you to leave? How about when the people being occupied, more than 60 percent, think it is acceptable to kill American soldiers? Maybe the war jig is up when a plurality of your own soldiers lose faith in the mission and their commander-in-chief?

For most reality-based and cognitively viable individuals, any of the above would be a pretty solid indicator that you've lost the war. George W. Bush and Congressional Republicans, however; see it all as signs of impending victory.

Good for the President! He is an eternal optimist. He must have acquired that trait back in the day. Back when he was wildcatting for oil and NEVER hitting anything, but dry holes. Heck when a guy is spending somebody else's money -- Daddy's cash -- failure is no cause for sadness. And few things breed patience quite like failure - and George W. Bush's entire life has been constructed upon one disastrous failure after another. He has become as patient as the wind whittling away at Mount Everest.

George W. Bush is a long, long, long way from admitting Iraq is a lost cause. He's got a ton of patience born of a lifetime of failures and, too, several trillion dollars of other peoples' money -- taxpayers' money -- to spend in his last two years.

Hmmm...maybe you know you've lost a war when your military starts arresting the ELECTED OFFICIALS of the government you are supposed to be protecting?

"Iraqi and US forces in Baghdad arrested the country's deputy health minister," the report read. Shhh...don't tell Mister Bush, he'll take it as a sign of progress and seek another quarter-trillion dollars.

[link to progressivedailybeacon.com]