Even if you support the war in Iraq, I don't see how you could view this as an "outstanding success". It's as if your car has been in a massive wreck, but you call it an outstanding success because after the wreck your car's wheels turn as it is pulled behind a tow truck.
It would be an outstanding success if we were gone already and it wasn't costing us money still. I'm convinved that had we gone in with more troops to begin with, not disbanded the Iraqi army, moved rapidly to seal the Syrian border, and prevented more of the initial chaos and looting that we could have made a much smoother transition from Saddam to an elected government.
The best praise I could give for the Washington leadership in the war is "It could have been much worse".
It's also grossly premature to make claims like:
Setting up a working Democratic government faster than any other time in history.
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Working would imply that the government can actually function on its own, which it clearly could not do now. Were US troops to withdraw today, the "elected" government of Iraq would be out of power in a matter of months. We held elections in Afghanistan pretty quickly too, but the Afghan government doesn't really control Afghanistan.
We're moving in the right direction in Iraq, I just think that we bungled it at the top level, and we could have done so much better.