link please? I would argue this is false, especially wrt Iraq. Things have been going well enough that there are already talks with the Iraqi government on when we can pull out, and they are running a large part of the country themselves already. With ANY war, journalists can go find a bombed out rubble pile and film it, implying that is the entire country. It also isn't difficult to find someone who will say just about anything-and that isn't even just in Iraq.
Hey JohnP I'm sorry I missed that reply. You're right that things have been better in Iraq, they had to get better at some point. But after all, the war did set-off a quasi-civil war over there aren't I right? Can you be certain that the recent "gains" aren't just a break in the fighting? I hope it's more than that and that this turn for the better will progress and not stall, because even though things are better now, they are still far from the legacy our armed forces should aim to leave behind. And wouldn't you agree that now there are almost certainly terrorist groups in Iraq? That these terrorist will wage war within their borders, probably against the Iraq government (which must look like a foreign import to them, like a McDonalds).
One of the sad things from a cultural point of view is that the US took Saddam's destruction of Babylon even further:
many civilians died in this war, perhaps more than would have under Saddam Hussein in the same period? perhaps up to a million? Who knows what to believe?