This won't be a popular opinion, but it will be quite some time before we can determine the success of our time in Iraq, or even George W. Bush's Presidentcy. It takes a long time for it to be put in a historical perspective- right now, people like to simplify things, and put the credit or blame for everything to the economy to their messed up garbage disposal on the President, but it doesn't work that way, even if you want to convince yourself otherwise