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Bartle Bull writing in today's Opinion Journal makes the case for why we are winning the war in Iraq in a big way. We are there as invited guests to help them rebuild their broken country and open up the wealth that Iraq is capable of producing and not just oil. Iraq has a commodity as much or more valuable, water, it was at one time the bread basket of the Middle East. Iran is scared that we will have a strong allies right on their borders that can also become economic tigers really quickly, stripping Iran of its monetary muscle. Iraq is poised to take off with some foriegn investment, it has a fair amount of infrastructure already that is slowly coming online all they need is security and peace.
The Iraqi pols recently blasted our Senators for trying to tell them what to do and the "soft partition" idea, telling them go run their own country, we will run Iraq. Good on them, our congress should butt out of Iraqi affairs.

The biggest unifier of all currently might be the most predictable one. Help from foreigners is welcome in Iraq. The country's elected prime minister, possessing after Iraq's heroic elections more popular legitimacy than almost any leader in the world, often points out that the Coalition is there as invited guests. When the U.S. Senate passed its disingenuous "plan" for extreme federalism in Iraq last week, the uproar in the country crossed the sectarian divide. Iraq already has a constitution. It was written by freely elected Iraqis and ratified overwhelmingly by the public in a brave vote two years ago.