Iraq - the road to victory in a slide

As everyone point-counterpoints the play by play - thinking about every wrinkle in the bark; it helps to back up and take a gander at the forest in front of you.

This has always been about Iraq taking control of their own affairs. An UNCLAS slide from a CENTCOM slide tells a large bit of the story. It speaks for itself.

High res here.

(and yes, Schulenmutter, it is OK to put UNCLAS slides from a CLASSIFIED Brief on the WEB, especially when it is a pictorial description of written material supplied to the press and is not FOUO).