A successful occupation wouldn't have repeat performances like the latest bombing of the Askariya Shrine in Samarra. Period.
By the way, if you missed it last night, Frontline is well worth watching, and available for viewing online. It focuses on Paul Bremer's year of utter ineptitude and cluelessness as he turns a badly deteriorating situation into something quite a bit worse.
Note: it's really jarring to see the sheer ferocity of IED explosions captured on video...and I assume the footage is contemporary with the focus of the show. In other words, these frightfully destructive bombs were being exploded while Jerry and Rummy, et al were dismissing the insurgency as rag-tag dead-enders...and Shrub himself petulantly asked for more: "bring 'em on."
Despite Shrub's assertion that these images of "violence on the teevee screens" are making us all "sacrifice peace of mind," I don't think any television network is really conveying a sense of just how destructive IEDs were (and are)...in fact, I think the networks engage in a great deal of self-censorship when it comes to presenting the violent imagery of war. Hell, if they tried to be a little more accurate, the noise machine and wingnuttery would most certainly screech to high heaven about the "treason," before retreating into ever greater denial...
Like the denial that the occupation of Iraq is a total, utter failure. As today's news clearly demonstrates.
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