Too Soon To Give Up: A Report From Iraq

American Thinker ^ | August 29, 2007 | Jeff Emanuel

[Kaslin]

Baghdad, Iraq - On this, my latest trip to Iraq, I have been embedded with the US military on the front lines for the last month, spending about three weeks in Salman Pak (just south of Baghdad) with the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division, from Ft. Benning, GA, and spending another several days near the Turkish and Syrian borders with a US Special Forces team and an Iraqi Police SWAT unit.

As one of the very few journalists (out of the hundreds who come here) who actually spends time out on the real front lines, seeing with my own eyes (and experiencing firsthand) the gunfire, the IEDs, the school openings, the public clinics, the Concerned Citizens meetings, and the other events of great import - rather than simply sitting in safety and reporting hearsay - I have personally seen evidence that the ‘Surge' is working militarily.

[sure_fine]

Too Soon To Give Up:

do they mean there will be a better time in the future Give Up?

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BUMP

[Kevmo]

We SHOULD withdraw from Iraq
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(Damascus for round II)

[FFranco]

Our combat deaths so far in Iraq are only about 5 percent of what we experienced in Viet Nam, yet Dims and other weak-kneed liberals want to pull out.

We need to stay the course until we achieve our war aims. I believe they are the following:
- a stable, united Iraq
- a free, democratic Iraq with a representative government
- an Iraq that can defend itself
- a prosperous, westernized Iraq
- an Iraq that will serve as a model for democratizing the whole Middle East
- an ally of the US in the Middle East where we can maintain our bases and from which we can project our power and influence throughout the region

This will take a long time, probably at least 5 more years, maybe longer. That is why it is so important we elect a Republican as president in 2008 to maintain the same kind of strong leadership we have had from President Bush.

[MNJohnnie]

Mega Dittos.