10. They'll stop calling it Bush's War (see also: Bush Economy).

9. The leadership of Syria and Iran will be spending less time supporting insurgents in Iraq and more time firming up their escape routes

8. The main complaint from Iraqis will be about how the government isn't providing enough services.

7. The rest will be complaining about how all the immigrants streaming in from other Arab nations are taking all the jobs.

6. Iraqi environmentalists will be complaining about all those damn oil wells and refineries

5. Iraq will join the U.S. and Israel on the worldwide Left's permanent shitlist of nations, replacing South Africa which dropped off the list a few years back.

4. Any terrorism in Iraq (and it will be perpetual at some level, as with Israel) will be relegated to the back pages of American newspapers alongside terror attacks on Israel.

3. The Iraqi government will be accused of abusing minorities in Iraq, something that nobody cared about when Saddam did it.

2. Inmates in the prisons will be fervently wishing the U.S. still ran the place.

And the number one sign that the war in Iraq is really over:

1. Brahimi will win the Nobel Prize for bringing freedom to Iraq.