As Noam Chomsky has said in his interview with Amy Goodman, sure you can win in Iraq by utterly destroying the country and its people. Then it becomes a satellite of the US. British Petroleum and Exxon can then rape the country of its oil.

The same pattern followed historically in Vietnam and the difference is today there is more protest sooner than there was during the Viet war years. North Vietnam and North Korea still remain pretty much the same despite US agression.

You can't win in a foreign country by pre-emptive war unless you are prepared to utter destroy that country. You can occupy it but only for so long until the inhabitants of the country rise up to defeat the occupiers.

Iraq is a lose-lose proposition.

Frank Hamilton