President Bush held firm, and now the day is won.
Don’t count your victories before they’re achieved. A RAT Presiden and/or Congress could easily turn this around and throw us into defeat. Al Qaeda could wave the white flag right now and the RATs would still declare Iraq a loss and pull us out.
And even if all of our troops are out before the 2008 election, the RATs could still lose Iraq by cutting off aid, just like they did in Vietnam even after we were all out of there.