Our success in Iraq is still being measured, and will undoubtedly continue to be debated for years and perhaps decades. On the positive side, our troops have acted with remarkable courage in extremely volatile and harsh conditions and a ruthless dictator was removed from power. However, no weapons of mass destruction were ever found, there is still violence and civil unrest in Iraq and an unstable-at-best government, and 50,000 American troops remain there in harm's way. Considering all of this, is it accurate to say that we actually won the war in Iraq? Duncan Hunter says unequivocally yes.
Hunter, the Army veteran and former longtime San Diego Congressman and House Armed Services chairman whose 2008 presidential campaign I covered while at Newsweek, declares such in a brand new book, "Victory in Iraq: How America Won." Hunter, 62, who served in Congress for nearly 30 years and whose son Duncan Hunter Jr., a veteran of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, now occupies his Congressional seat, tells Stars And Stripes blogger Leo Shan:
On the blogs, Hunter's just-released book, which gives a detailed analysis of the war from the author's perspective, is already generating heated debate. On the Stars And Stripes blog, juanito writes:
But mavigozler counters:
