OK - Here is the article since you don't trust bryanz...
WASHINGTON - The Army's top uniformed officer said yesterday he did not believe the United States was losing the war in Iraq, but declined to say the nation was winning. Americans should brace for a long, dangerous fight against terrorism, said Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army's chief of staff.
"I believe that we are closer to the beginning ... than we are to the end," he said during a luncheon on Capitol Hill sponsored by the Defense Forum Foundation.
When asked whether the military was winning in Iraq, Schoomaker paused before saying: "I don't think we're losing."
Schoomaker cited sectarian violence as a serious problem, and said achieving security was becoming more "complex."
"Where I think we are on the scale of winning I think is a very difficult thing and I think time will tell," he said.
Schoomaker said he does not envision reducing the time soldiers spend deployed in Iraq because shorter combat tours would cause too much "turbulence" in the war. Soldiers are typically sent for year-long deployments in Iraq.
In Iraq yesterday, bombs and mortars struck Shiite and Sunni mosques in the Baghdad area, the latest in a week of tit-for-tat sectarian attacks that have killed more than 250 people.
The deadliest explosion came as worshipers left services at a Sunni mosque in northern Baghdad, killing 14 people and wounding five, police said.
The Associated Press
Originally published on July 15, 2006
It is difficult to pray for a victory in Iraq when I am unsure about our objectives there in the first place. For me, there is no victory. When we "win" the war in Iraq, it will just be over.... what will be accomplished, except that we have wreaked internal damage on a country, killed thousands of innocent people, and spent way too much money doing it????
I pray for peace.
