Glenn Reynolds: Iraq telling us to get out means we're still winning.

Unrepentant, until the end.

IRAQ WANTS A WITHDRAWAL TIMETABLE? They're talking 2011. Tell 'em "sure." There's probably a fair-sized haggling component here, but it doesn't matter: If they want us to leave, we should say "no problem." Saddam's gone, the insurgency's back is broken, and while big U.S. bases in the area might be a stabilizing force in the region, they might not. Leaving because the elected Iraqi government asks us to is winning, not turning tail and ensuring defeat, which is what we would have done had we listened to Obama, the Iraq Study Group, et al. a couple of years ago.

Of course, ideally we'd leave via Tehran and Riyadh . . . .

Yeah, except Maliki said we could leave last year while Putz and the Victory Caucus crowd was pimping the surge.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shrugged off U.S. doubts of his government's military and political progress on Saturday, saying Iraqi forces are capable and American troops can leave "any time they want."

But now "winning" doesn't mean defeating Islamofascism and a 100-year fight for Western Civilization. No, winning means the Iraqi government telling us to go home.

Nice try, Putz.