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[Fast_Eddie]

I only sorta, kinda understand the objection to saying "we lost". When I was a kid, they fired the football coach in Cincinnati because the Sports reporters were drilling him after a bad loss. He finally said something like "hey, guys, it's a football game". People didn't much like that. But he was right. They were making out like a bus full of orphans had driven over a cliff. They lost. There's another game next week.

So - Iraq. Did we lose? Well, there's no question we lost almost 4,500 American lives. No question we lost something like $700B. Did we win anything? I guess time will tell. I hope so. I'm sure there is some degree of truth in the notion that the Iraqi people won. I hope that's the case. Did we win any safety and security? It's not really looking like it. I hope, in the long run, that country turns into something stable and is an ally to the U.S. But we won't know that for a good long time.

I don't know. It's hard to make any concrete case we won. I guess it's too soon to say, really. But if pressed, at least right now, looks to me like we lost more than we won.

Guess I wouldn't make much of a football coach.