Avarice and Neglect

When I read the transcript of the President's remarks on his "Plan for Victory" in Iraq, I heard a lot of statistics recited, a lot of hoo-hah about Iraq's phantom military constantly making strides toward seizing the reins from a beleaguered American military, and of course, ubiquitous pats on the back for his cronies (that all his speeches seem written to contain); but I didn't hear anything about an, ahem, plan for victory. At this point, I just want to ask my President, what is "victory" in this precarious situation? Of all of our stated reasons for being in a foreign, sovereign nation to begin with, i.e., the removal of weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Hussein regime, one proved false prima facie, and the other has been accomplished...the one reason that our president vowed to us he would never, never use American troops for, and that is nation building, is now our only goal. History teaches this is a failed mission; no project the likes of which we are attempting ever leaves anything but generations of misery. And this in a region that is only now beginning to emerge from the hangover of British occupation that wrought the Palestinian/Israel dilemma. Mistakes that we seemed "Planned to Repeat."