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respond with what your expectations were of [the war's] success and how the results have compared with your forecast
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"Success" implies a goal. If you don't achieve the goal, then you have not succeeded. The goal was finding WMDs. No find, no goal, no success.
You seem to want to redefine "success" with your own terms. Sorry, I'm not game, any other terms than those above is just semantic dithering in my opinion.