Posted on 06/26/2006 9:52:58 AM PDT by Icitinuris
"Every conflict reaches a tipping point. More often than not, historians would vouch, that tipping point need not be anywhere near the end of an ongoing war. It could be said, before Okinawa, prior to the bodies at Iwo Jima, before the firebombing of Tokyo, prior to MacArthur's return to the Philippines, and years before Truman's early August atomic decision, Japanese defeat was sowed at Midway. Ditto that in the European theater in the aftermath of D-Day, some eleven months before the fall of the Third Reich: turning points, they were, leaving only the question of how much time, treasure, an d blood was to from there on be lost.
And now events in the supposed Iraqi quagmire indicate something is changing in that oil-rich cradle of civilization. With the death of the most dangerous man in Iraq - perhaps the world - and the final formation of the permanent Iraqi government, obstructionists here at home have had a hard time glossing over the importance of such successes. This, coupled with a surprise trip from Mr. Bush to Baghdad to meet the Iraqi leader and his newly assembled team, was all good and significant news. There is something inspiring - toppled statues of fascists and purple ink-stained fingers of Muslim women enjoying their suffrage - in seeing the world's most powerful symbol of democratic freedom meeting, face-to-face, with the first genuinely and democratically elected Arab prime minister. The unusualness of such an occurrence, in and of itself, could perhaps constitute its own turning point amidst a great and violent struggle.
But there is something else in the air -
(Excerpt) Read more at globalpolitician.com ...
"In the past week alone, 104 terrorists met their maker and 759 were apprehended in 452 counterterror raids, 255 of which were joint U.S.-Iraqi raids, 143 of which were conducted by Iraqi forces independently. The 28 vast arms caches discovered were also overlooked, inasmuch as the hundreds of thousands of unearthed Iraqi bodies in mass graves have been neglected, in one of the saddest examples of unprofessional journalism in all the history of covering genocide."
"Other high-value targets were toast, as well. Hamzi al Aini, an al Qaida hierarch, was captured in the town of Abu Saydah with a bloody saw in his hideout. Ahmed al Battawi, who has admitted to beheading hundreds, was detained by an elite Iraqi antiterrorist unit. Abbas al Mufraji, a top associate of al Zarqawi, was arrested, as were twenty-three other members of al Qaida's upper echelons. Seven high-ranking members of the Mujahideen Shura Council, an al Qaida-linked insurgent group, were seized as well."
I think Murtha now channels Zarqawi like Hillary channels Eleanor Roosevelt...
Write a book and I'll buy it. I bet about a quarter million others on here would as well. God bless and thanks.
National commitment to democratizing Middle East governments and their indigenous antiterrorist armies and largely innocent peoples requires the sustained effort of successive U.S. presidential administrations, congressional representatives, and free-voting American citizens.
With all of the whining and carping on FR and elsewhere in "conservative" circles these days, as well as betrayals by Specter and other so-called Republicans, it's easy to lose sight of just how remarkable and extraordinary the presidency of George W. Bush has been. It's easy to "misunderestimate" just what we will lose when he leaves office, and how critical the 2008 election will be to the effort to finish the job in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The turning point in WWII Europe wasn´t D-Day. The Nazis lost the war when the 6th Wehrmacht Army fell into the hands of the Soviets. Stalingrad was the turning point.
"Defeat, is not an option"
--President George Bush
The only way we will know we are winning from the msm is when they stop talking about it. They've quieted down about it a lot in the last few months, so I've known things are going well. They only started up again when they manufactured Haditha, or when some rat pollitician says Iraq is going to cost the pubies in November.
I hope we at least attempt to insist upon allowing a free flow of ideas and beliefs before we leave Iraq.
As long a Satan's lies, whether he Shiite, Sunni or some other flavor, is all that is permitted, there will be no real peace or "freedom" there.
I hope in a hundred years people will look back and wonder at the anti-american left, how they could hate their own country so much, and at us, how we gave them as much power as we did.
The two biggest blunders, of course, were the Germans attacking the Soviet Union before finishing off Great Britain, and the Japanese launching a sneak attack on us, drawing us into the war. They'd have been better off just taking the oil they needed. Given our communists we would never have gone to "war for oil", even then. And if Germany hadn't jumped the gun with the Soviets, our communists wouldn't have let us go to war with them either.
Nobody seemed to care about what the Japanese did to the Chinese or what Germany was doing to the Jews.
An Afghanistan report on "Good Morning America" this morning made it seem that the Taliban now run half the country and we are losing the war.
MSM are more than liars, they are evil.
It will be critical to our entire conservative counterrevolution. We MUST get a conservative in there. How about Mike Reagan?
Heck, yeah. Baghdad is a blast. Ar, ar, ar...
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