But we ended up winning the war, thanks to the surge which Democrats opposed. I understand that their votes against military funding bills and such in 2006 and 2007 was an effort to capitalize on the war's unpopularity, but I think of it as being rather cowardly.
Please define what constitutes "winning the war" with regards to Iraq by naming some distinct characteristics of a victory here.
According to official figures released by the Iraqi government, more than 2000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen as well as more than 7500 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the last US troops had left the country in December 2011.
Seems to me that nobody has won the war in Iraq, because it hasn't actually ended yet. The United States simply chose not to participate in it anymore.
I would break up the Iraq war into three phases myself:
1) March 2003 to May 2003 - US invasion of Iraq
2) May 2003 to December 2011 - Iraqi civil war with involvement of US occupation forces
3) December 2011 to today - Iraqi civil war without involvement of US occupation forces
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