* this is a comment from the ' Huffington Post'.

"Here is what winning looks like in iraq.

1) Safety. Anyone can walk the street and not get shot.

2) ALL utilities up and running 24 hours a day. No more blackouts, lack
of water. No more sewage in the streets.

3) Employment. Give all Iraqis a job so they feel they have a future.

4) Functioning government. If we are fighting terrorism with democracy,
then there has to be a functioning democracy in iraq.

Accomplishing this will take at least 400,000 US troops in Iraq. It will
take maybe 200,000 more Peace Corp types to help with the infrastructure
and civil society. This will require reinstatement of the draft, repeal
of the recent tax cuts and a $50/barrel tax on oil to pay for it all. Its
called nation building and it is horrendously expensive. A true 'War
President' would be capable of the leadership to achieve this. FDR did it
in WWII. Why not Bush in 2005? It would be his finest hour.

'Stay the course' means America loses. If we are not willing to do it
right, we should not ask even a single soldier to die for a flawed policy.
Maybe the Congress will finally realize this."