“No one is arguing that the peculiar, behind-the-scenes sort of American empire is ending with the withdrawal from Iraq.  What is ending is George W. Bush’s departure into expensive and anachronistic games of direct imperial domination.”

http://www.juancole.com/2010/12/al-maliki-us-troops-out.html

The bigotry of the far-Left is on full display because the Iraqi democrats, according to the far-Left, are ‘incapable of political horse trading’ and the Iraqi democrats are 'doomed' to failure.  For over two years, there has  ONLY been GOOD news coming out of Iraq after 'The Surge' worked.  It is time to start re-litigating every progressive narrative ever presented because progressives are wrong about almost everything.  Never forget that far-left progressives were wrong to use American soldiers and the Iraq war as a domestic political message in 2006.  Progressivism is corrupt.  According to the far-Left, the Iraqi democrats are bad but Libyan democrats are good.  Progressives chose the other side, the loosing side, the wrong side, during the Iraq war.  Now the progressive bigotry openly held toward the Iraqi democrats is clear: 1) The Libyan democrats are good and must be militarily supported by the USA, bombing Libya.  2) The Iraqi democrats are bad and must abandoned by the USA.  Remember the 2005 far-Left rant that the Iraqi democrats were not worth the lost treasure or blood?  Remember during the 2006 election cycle the far-Left yammering that the USA must abandon the Iraqi democrats?  Translation from liberal into English: 'Bombs Away Over Libya' no problem!!!  Denis McDonough, President Obama's deputy national security adviser, speaking from inside the White House said about supporting the Libyan democrats while abandoning the Iraqi democrats, "We don't make decisions about questions like intervention based on consistency or precedent."