1.0 link 108650 <![CDATA[How Bush Is Winning His Real Goals In Iraq]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sandy-goodman/how-bush-is-winning-his-r_b_108650.html Like him or not, George W. Bush is winning his war in Iraq, at least for now. That's because Bush is moving closer to achieving his two big war aims, even as his disastrous presidency approaches its end.

Of course, those real goals were not the ones he publicly proclaimed: getting rid of Iraq's WMDs, ties to al-Qaida; and, when both proved non-existent, cynically promoting "democracy" at gunpoint, which killed, wounded or exiled hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. And it...

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