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I’m not totally sure what this is meant to accomplish (something tells me Obama hasn’t been downgrading all his campaign promises so he can sign this into law his first day in office), but there is a natty graphic, which can only help:

Zombie has some links to “a few of the best, most informative and most heartwarming Victory in Iraq Day posts from around the world,” which is where I found this one, from Gegenkritik:

More than five years ago, the USA and their allies decided to free Iraq of one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. This victory was, as the editors of the journal Bahamas pointed out in their 2003 congratulation entitled Bush – the Man of Peace! also a defeat for Germany, whose Goverment in a frightening unity with its people opposed the war 2003 as a revenge for the disgrace 1945.

Actually, it was the first time since World War II that the Germans constituted as a Volksgemeinschaft again: left-wing extremists as well as neo-nazi groups and the average citizen cheered Chancellor Schröder for opposing the “warmonger” George W. Bush. The battle cry of the countless peace demonstrations – “No more war!” – and statements like “war is the worst crime against humanity” told what was the real motivation for a people, who could once only be stopped with guns and tanks from annihilating millions of human beings.

Even if it was not stated explicitly: The peace-demonstration against the Iraq War in Germany were in fact nothing less than the delegitimization of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Culminating with:

The spreading silence about the Iraq war now is also an evidence, that the USA and their allies won this war.

Hmm. Also found a nicely comprehensive round up of the reason to invade (always useful, no matter what the occasion), from Public Secrets.

But onto the point of the exercise. As RC2 has said at her place:

Thank you, American and allied service members, for this victory: be proud! Thank you military families for your sacrifices and your support of our troops. Thank you, President Bush, for doubling down instead of giving in. Thank you, General David Petraeus. Thank you, General Ray Odierno. Thank you, John McCain. Thank you, Michael Yon, without whom I don’t think we’d know we’d won. Thank you, allies overt and covert. Be proud!

Congratulations, Iraqi people, for standing up when everyone said you wouldn’t and couldn’t. Congratulations on your new freedom and independence. Keep it!

So, well done, people.

(And how ’bout those Assyrian Christians?)