Operation Iraqi Freedom

The latest news that the last combat units have crossed from Iraq and into Kuwait have captured the attention of many. This was followed with some questioning whether our efforts in Iraq were successful or not.

The regime of President Obama would like to further snatch defeat from the jaws of Victory by second guessing what so many of our soldiers, airmen, and sailors have paid the ultimate for.

To contemplate success or failure you have to look at the goals going in and the outcome of having gone in. I say success was ours and Victory was honorably achieved.

The rest and the future of Iraq is entirely up to the Iraqis-we have given them a prescious gift of choice-and they must choose whether to continue with the Democratic government they have established and whether they consider it worth doing so at all costs. I have no doubt the blood

of American servicemen and women was not spilled in vain.