The various factions abandon their hatred and ignorance, forgive all past violence, and work to heal themselves and their country. The U.S. pulls out with another unpleasant lesson learned, which hopefully won't be re-forgotten within a few years. Ok, sorry -- I'm awake now. What was the question again?

This really does depend on your point of view, so my answer is likely to be very subjective. For Mr Blair and the UK Labour Party a win is being able to withdraw troops, or leave the troops in Iraq, and still get returned to power at the next election. For the British soldiers a win is not dying. For the US presidency a win is not getting prosecuted for war crimes or invasion. For US soldiers a win is not dying. For the majority of Iraqi people a win is not having to pay the countries who invaded and destroyed their country, to get the country rebuilt. For a minority a win is dying and forcing a withdrawal by it. For the world, I believe, a win is where the USA and Britain, and the other countries who have troops in Iraq, agree to withdraw and rebuild a country whose only crime was to have a dictator. We claimed we were going in to Iraq to find WMD, but we went in to depose Saddam Hussein. We need to admit the lies, and apologise for our destruction by rebuilding without demanding oil revenue from a country that we have vandalised. By showing a peaceful side we take away those things the fundamentalists scream about. Mr Ghandi demonstrated how powerful peace can be, and we would do well to learn from him. If we become a model of virtue, then people will willingly follow, but if we demand obedience we will only get resentment. I am sure you have heard the story of the wind and the sun, who make a bet about who can make a man take off his coat. The harder the wind blows the more the man clings to his coat (beliefs) but when the sun shines he removes his coat to bask in its glory. We change others' views by our actions, not by our rhetoric. So for me a win will be when we decide to turn our back on war and destruction as a means to get our way, and end the politics of fear.

A win is not possible -- there are only losers in war... we will especially never be able to return the 150,000 civilians killed (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/11/09/international/i125447S82.DTL&feed=rss.news) in the name of our "democracy". I expect, we will be "paying" for all those dead civillians for a long long time to come.

Iraq is able to hold itself together and doesn't need our help in everything they do. Law enforcement can do their job, people can vote freely, and we'll always be on hand in case the surrounding terrorist nations decide to invade.

A win would probably be defined as whatever the US deem suitable.

A fantasy. A dream. My 2 cents.

A self sustained, self sufficient stable democracy.

The end of a seriouse terrorist threat, and a stable Iraqie goverment