George W. Bush: Commander-in-Chief of Two Wars Won

Mission accomplished! George W. Bush won two wars in the two terms he was president. How can I say this statement without being told I am crazy? Well it is pretty easy to explain how he won two wars. First you have to ask yourself how we define victory in war. I was always under the impression that they either surrendered or we took them out.

Let's take a look at bot Iraq and Afghanistan to see if they measure up to the definition of victory and if so what than do we call what we are doing over there in those countries. Iraq, there was a dictator that our closest allies and most of congress, up until it was not politically correct, believed had already or was in the process of getting weapons of mass destruction. The point of this topic is not to make an argument of why we went to war with this tyrant but, to make a point that we won the war against him. I suppose the first question and maybe the only relevant question to make the point, is the regime we went to war with in power? If Iraq is in a civil war, does have anything to do with the previous war against Saddam Hussein? The answer to both is, no. The regime was soundly defeated and the civil-war that broke out may be a cause of the war but it is not the same war for the enemies of that war are no longer in power.

Afghanistan, another regime that was the harbor of terrorism and a threat to her neighbors. Again, not trying to justify the war but, question whether or not we can still call it a war. The Taliban have been removed from power in that country. Since defining war, the main goals have been either to get a surrender or take out the enemy. Afghanistan, like Iraq, is now just a theater of combat in a war we can not claim victory on. This war, is the war on terror. A war against an enemy that does not fight honorably with a uniform, but as cowards in some cases sending children to blow themselves up in their place.

The real puzzling thing of it is, we have let the liberals define what now constitutes a victory in war. We are not at war with either countries governments but involved in their civil wars in addition to both countries being theaters for the war on terror. We should send some of our troops home but, like any theater of war, we need to keep fighting the terrorists where they are. We are not fighting in two wars but, we are fighting in one, the war on terror.

- M. Garry