For some, Iraq will never be a success.
Ten years from now, even if Iraq is a prosperous secular democracy, some Baghdad minister will embezzle some oil funds and the Usual Gang of Idiots will pop and yell, "See? See? We lost all those troops for this?"
I have predicted that a sure sign of victory in Iraq is when the Left puts that nation on its permanent shitlist along with the U.S. and Israel.