Kargil Vijay Diwas.... ?????????

There is a huge hype in the media over Vijay Diwas being observed today.
I am a bit confused!!!!!
Did we really win the Kargil war?
To the best of my knowledge and belief, after the 1962 Chinese aggression, Kargil was the biggest ever debacle in independent India - plastered as such by the very same media, and everyone, around the days of the event ten years ago!
I do not recall anyone ever calling it a victory, then or later, other than some meek effort a couple of years ago on the part of interested political parties to observe what was rightfully a day of Remembrance for our fallen heroes, by hypocritically dubbing Vijay Diwas.
Kargil needs to be observed for the massacre our troops suffered, for the lives of young soldiers and officers sacrificed - picked up like sitting ducks by the Pakis from the heights of Kargil that they had captured and commanded. Kargil should be remembered, to shame those be it leaders or those in authority responsible for leading our innocent lambs to their slaughter!!!
As Maloy Dhar candidly stated in the Big Fight yesterday, Kargil was a total failure on all fronts - and failure on the part every agency concerned - be it the army, the intelligence services, or other...
And from what was bandied around in the media and all knowledgeable circles then, it is not our forces that pushed the Pakis behind the Line of Control, but it was the diplomatic pressure exerted on them by the Americans that forced them to go behind the LoC.
Why are we such hypocrites?
Will someone more knowledgeable on this and privy to more facts in the matter - from among the illustrious mailing list here condescend to correct me if I am wrong, and educate me further on this...?