What does "victory" in Iraq mean?

Question

What does "victory" in Iraq mean?

Answer 1

Blow it up and pave it over.  

Answer 2

getting the h**l outta dodge as soon as we can

Answer 3

Hijacking an planes and crashing them into buildings is there way of "victory".

Answer 4

There can never be a "victory" in Iraq now. Not after over  4,000 needlessly dead troops, chaos in Iraqi government, a floundering U.S. economy and our country being hated by the entire world. At this point the ends can never justify the means.

Answer 5

Too many lives have been lost there to just leave. That would dishonor the lives of those noble soldiers just like we did in Vietnam. "Victory" is when Iraq is able to defend itself. When their government has stabilized and having free and fair elections is the norm. It also means having a professional military and police force to defend their land from cowardly insurgents. When those two things are accomplished, I will consider our job done. We accomplished neither of those criteria when we left Vietnam.

Answer 6

Victory is an illusion. The War on Terror is futile. You can't kill a conceptual state of mind... of course, when you're a mentally-challenge Texan who wields his power of Presidency like a kid who's found his dad's gun... you have difficulty conceiving notions such as this.

Answer 7

No one really knows the answer to that question.  Hopefully we will know it when we see it.

Answer 8

That we met each of our objectives!  People think we are losing because of the chaos that exist, but stampening that doesn't mean 'victory'.  We eradicated Saddam, the Iraq Gov't on their own agenda agreed on Democracy (not our decision), and they are working towards a stable gov't, even though insurgents still exists.  So far, we achieve our goals on what we were there in the first place.  Even though the publicity in American sees it differently because of their shortened glance at the biaism that they see in mass media, but we have achieved victory from many point of views.

Answer 9

they say it means that when we win the iraqi people have their fredom and they are safe from attacks but i say it means getting all the oil we can while we distract people with the war IRAQ HAS OIL KOREA HAS SOIL

Answer 10

A stable Iraqi government.

That will happen.  People will tell you democracy too but that's crazy.  That country is going to make the US draw down most of our forces after 2011ish and then they are going to finish what the surge interrupted.  

Answer 11

It means "I" got my f'ken "legacy"

Answer 12

Immediate withdrawal, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqis. Hussein is gone, has been for a long time. Time to stop pissing people off and creating new terrorists. We still have to catch Bin Laden...not that we will, but that's who attacked us on 9/11...right? Depends who you ask.

Answer 13

The Iraqi army taking over and protecting their citizens.  A stable government, so that someone, or the US doesn't have to go back in there to stabilize it again.

Answer 14

It means that Iraq is a functioning democracy with it's own constitution and military that is capable of fighting terrorism and projecting a peaceful influence on the rest of the Middle East. We're almost there, and yet the Democrats want to give up.

Answer 15

it means wiping out the animals  who would hurt us  

Answer 16

Over 2,000 of our Men and Women Dead, A Solid Weakened Dollar, Haliburton, KBR. War Profiteering, The List goes on and on.