It won't be total victory until.....

Iraq's oil IS NOT nationalized.

Iraqis are wondering where their pensions have gone.

Racism is rampant within the Iraqi borders.

Millions of "their own people" are imprisoned indefinitely.

Their street corners are littered with American fast food franchises.

Their rates of cancer, heart disease and diabetes equals ours.

Their women are back in burqas.

They are on a war footing with Iran.

They adopt the dollar as their preferred currency.

All of their state owned businesses and industries are sold off and privatized.

Their secret service develops a huge database on "persons of interest". (innocent civilians)

They develop a hankering for nukular weapons so that what happened to them will never happen to them again.

The theocractic bent takes over.

Their children and their childrens children are in debt to the tune of several tens of thousands of dollars.

Their healthcare system fails.

Their government abandons them during a natural disaster.

Corporate corruption is overflowing in the streets (Ahmad Chalabi)

Their national debt exceeds many trillions of dollars.

We start viewing them as a potential threat again in need of some mo shock and awe.

and has been the only issue from day one.