Posted on 10/21/2004 7:03:29 AM PDT by Grendel9
Progress in Iraq Kerry's wrong. There's good news in Fallujah.
Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT
With polls showing a tight Presidential race, it's possible John Kerry could be our commander-in-chief soon. So it would be nice to think he's paying enough attention to what's going on in Iraq to know that conditions there aren't, as he said a few days ago, "getting worse each week."
The kidnappings, mortar attacks and roadside bombs continue--and will until the insurgency is defeated. But recent weeks have actually seen progress by American and Iraqi forces toward reasserting control over Saddam's old stronghold in the Sunni Triangle. That, in turn, means credible nationwide elections in January are more likely than ever.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Does he have enough money to pay attention?
The WSJ is one of the few outlets presenting the truth to the American people. Those who get their news from the talking heads will see nothing but more doom & gloom.
Of course he knows conditions are getting better and not worse - but he is a democrat party hack and the truth is never an obstacle to them.
/sarcasm -off
"Unfortunately, it seems to me that many in the U.S. don’t quite appreciate how high the stakes [of the Presidential elections] are. The challenge is mortal, and you and we are locked in a War, a National Emergency; and in such circumstances partisan considerations must be of secondary importance. If you lose this war, you are no more, and you will have to withdraw within you boundaries cringing and waiting for terror to strike you in your homeland, afraid to move around, afraid to travel, afraid to do business abroad. You will have to see all your friends abroad annihilated and intimidated and nobody will have any confidence or trust in you anymore. And you will have to watch from far with bitterness the forces of darkness and evil taking over in many parts of this earth, with feelings of impotence and inability to do anything about it. In other words you would lose all credibility, and the fiends of terror and obscurantism would go triumphantly dancing the macabre dance of mayhem and death, and darkness would descend and obliterate the light and the hope. "
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Alaa, THE MESOPOTAMIAN
http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/
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