Posted on 11/10/2010 9:21:48 PM PST by pissant
WASHINGTON -- After researching the Iraq war in depth for the last few years, former House Armed Services Chairman Duncan Hunter has a simple message for the American public: We won.
Hunter, an Army veteran and a California Republican who served in the House of Representatives for 28 years, is releasing his book, “Victory in Iraq: How America Won,” later this month. The goal, he said, is to highlight the heroics of troops who served in the combat zone (the book includes interviews with more than 100 Silver Star recipients) but also to “set the record straight” on the legacy of the fight.
“We won the war, and that’s been obscured,” he said. “The mission was successful because of the heroics of our people serving over there. You don’t always hear about that. [President Barack] Obama said he ended the war this summer, but he didn’t say we won it. But we did.”
Hunter, who held the top job in the House defense panel from 2003 to 2007, said the book also includes insider details of the initial invasion, how the 2007 “surge” of troops into Iraq came about, and why he believes media coverage of the conflict painted the war in a negative light.
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Agreed. We can say we won because we left (so far as we have left— I’m still iffy on that) when we chose, leaving circumstances on the ground in a condition we (collectively; YMMV) find acceptable. I believe all the objectives stated at the beginning of the mission have been fulfilled “by the numbers”, and a resounding raspberry to those who misidentify imperfection as “defeat”.
(A British friend reports that he was taught in school the the War of 1812 was fought to a draw. I told him on no uncertain terms that because (a) the conditions which led to the conflict were no longer operative and (b) all British troops who invaded the US, burned Washington etc. left when we told them to leave, we called it a victory. We’re still friends. He’s working on citizenship.)
Keep up the Duncan Hunter flag waving. B4DH.
Good story. They quit in the nick of time. But no one told Old Hickory
He’ll be doing plenty of his own now that he’s got a book to market and the 2012 race begins.
“Another such victory and we are undone”.
King Pyrrhus of Epirus
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