When the AP says the war is won, it’s time for the looney left to fold up their tents and go home.

What the AP article to which Allah linked does not mention is that this is the second war we have won in Iraq. The first war, against Saddam Hussein and his army, was won quickly and so decisively that it scared Muammar Qadaffi into giving up his WMD programs.

The second war has been fought not against a traditional army as defined by the Geneva Conventions and international law but a gang of Islamists and the organized proxies of the Iranian and Syrian governments intent on destroying the nascent Iraqi government. The MSM has incorrectly blended these wars together to heap reproofs onto President Bush even though they are clearly different in nearly every possible way.

Now, even the MSM must admit that the second war is won as well, even if it doesn’t recognize it for what it is. Then again, the MSM isn’t necessarily inclined to give the forces of freedom and good any benefit of the doubt. That is reserved for the dictators, tyrants, and appeasement-minded mush-brains on the left.

Five years ago, President Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln as it returned home in triumph, under a banner that read “Mission Accomplished” and declared that:

Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.

The MSM and the left scurrilously misread his speech and used it as a bludgeon for four years. But he was right. The mission of the first war was indeed accomplished. As the President put it “…the tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free”. But in that same quote he also noted the beginning of the second war, the war to secure Iraq for the people of Iraq. That has taken a long time and has been fought against not just Islamists and tyrants but against the Quisling press and the enabling progressives in this country.

Well, folks, they didn’t win, thought they tried with all their might. Were I the President, I might just be inclined, on my last day in office, give my farewell speech underneath a banner that read “Mission Accomplished…Again”.