It took seven years before we gave Japan back their country, and that was when nobody in Japan was running a major insurgency against us or the interim government.

Three months ago we passed the three year mark since we sent troops across the Iraqi border, and considerable progress has been made on the road.

Check out my "good news from Iraq" post on Current Events in a few minutes.

You are going to see an intensive push from Democrats to pull out of Iraq, since at this point, surrender is probably the best, if not the only, way to lose this war.

If Kerry had won the election, given his speeches and commentary since then, it is almost certain we would have bailed out at least a year ago. And what would Zarqawi be doing right now?