Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told MSNBC that “winning” in Iraq would mean reducing the violence to a level that permitted the relatively stable functioning of government — in other words: the exact “policing of terrorism” model that Bush and Cheney mocked in 2004.

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