[Wiz]

Welcome to Roach motel Baghdad, Al Qaida. There is no such "check out" from this motel. You terrorists are surrounded by checkpoints and barriers. In other words, you terrorists are trapped.

[Darkwolf377]

Welcome to Roach motel Baghdad, Al Qaida.

GREAT metaphor.

I'm not doubting this article, but I AM curious as to when the MSM will start reporting this. I mean the friendly MSM--Wall Street Journal, FOX, O'Reilly--and how the liberal MSM will spin it.

[Zeroisanumber]

Almost forty years after Vietnam and four years into the war, the military finally learns how to fight an effective counter-insurgency campaign.

The military brass learned something new and it only took them forty years... You know, I'm an Atheist, but this might not be a bad time to head to the nearest church. Hell might very well have frozen over.

[NordP]

Well put Wiz!

Score more points for the good guys!

[jwparkerjr]

I heard of no car bomb or other suicide attacks from Iraq yesterday. It seems like the days when there are no major attacks the MSM is very silent about what's happening, but let an attack occur it treated like an everyday occurrence.

The administration must make it a point to talk EVERY DAY about what's happened in the previous 24 hours, the number of attacks, ied's, bodies found, etc. Attendance at the briefing should be mandatory so that the various news agencies who fail to report the increasingly calm days throughout Iraq have no way to avoid admitting that they knew, and failed to talk about, the increasing number of relatively calm days.

I swear it's like no one on our side ever gives any thought to how the war is being reported, and therefore perceived. Like so much of the Dubya administration the war effort is allowed to be attacked and lied about and spun by every Tom, Dick and Harry with absolutely no response from anyone of authority.

My guess is they expect success and figure when it happens it will speak for itself. That is just not the case. They need to be talking about that success all the time, telling us what it will look like, diminishing violence from the insurgents and increasingly fewer sightings of evidence of it.

[MarkT]

This cannot be true - I have not read in the NYT nor have I heard on the major news stations.

[SakoL61R]

Required reading:
"Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice” by Col. David Galula.

[Eye of Unk]

Awesome!

As I say, You can run but you'll just die tired!

[GOPJ]

bump

[RoadTest]

Hear that, Pelosi? - with your ears. Now try your brain. C'mon! You can do it! We're winning. Can you handle that?

About as well as Algor can handle regular, natural climate cycles.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Move along... Nothing to see here... Unless you hear it on the drive-by media, you should ignore all signs of progress in Iraq... Nothing to see...

[rbg81]

I hate to be a doubting Thomas, but I've heard this one several times before.

[rollo tomasi]

Dems will counter saying "because we successfully voted on a pullout date, the war in Iraq is finally over".

[Jeffrey_D.]

Or they could be taking an extended vacation knowing that the Rats are willing to surrender. Just think of the celebrating if they can get a Rat in the W.H.