Progress, Progress And More Progress

IBD ^ | November 16, 2007

[Kaslin]

Winning: News from Iraq gets better by the day, but the media have done their best to downplay the turnaround and congressional Democrats have basically pulled the covers over their heads and pretended it doesn't exist.

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There's an eery silence out there about what's going on in Iraq. It's almost as if the silence is, well, intentional. Here are just a few examples of what we're talking about, pulled from last week's developments:

• In Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, British Major Gen. Graham Binns said that attacks against British and American forces have plunged 90% since the start of September.

• Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reported that terrorist attacks of all kinds are down almost 80% from last year's peak — thanks directly to the U.S. surge of 30,000 new troops.

• Amid growing signs that even Iraq extremists have tired of terrorism and killing, a Sunni religious group closed down the high-profile Muslim Scholars Association because of its ties to terrorists.

• U.S. Major Gen. James Simmons, speaking in Baghdad, said Iran's pledges to stop sending weapons and explosives into Iraq "appear to be holding up." Roadside bombs, the leading killer of U.S. troops, have plunged 52% since March, he added.

• Perhaps most touching, according to a report from Michael Yon, who deserves to be the first blogger to win a Pulitzer Prize, Muslims are asking Iraqi Christians to return to help build Iraq.

[saganite]

This explains the Dems insane desperate attempts to stop the funding without the withdrawal commitment (the surrender document). If they can’t ensure defeat in the next few months their jig will be up. Of couse, Hillary will say that she was for the war before she was against it and never promised to withdraw the troops anyway.

[Signalman]

I hope, I pray, that this effort by the Democrats to sabotage the mission in Iraq, just at the very moment we are winning, will insure their defeat in the next election.

[tomnbeverly]

Oh Excellent and right about now just as victory is within grasp ... Just as our Marines are preparing to raise the Flag on Mount Suribachi....

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi come along and snatch the funding that pays for their medicine and food.... as if to say good fight boys but doesn’t matter because there will be no victory if we can help it. You risked your lives for nothing.... snicker, snicker... Its all about the politics... or is it?

[Dog]

I am going to report you to General Pelosi...for posting good news..

IRAQ IS LOST!!!

Doomed we are........doomed!

[tomnbeverly]

How come the Democrats in Congress have an out of Iraq caucus but the Republicans do not have a victory in Iraq caucus... I think its about time..

[prognostigaator]

"WASHINGTON (AP) - Tiny robots programmed to act like roaches were able to blend into cockroach society, according to researchers studying the collective behavior of insects. Cockroaches tend to self-organize into leaderless groups, seeming to reach consensus on where to rest together. For example, when provided two similar shelters, most of the group tended to gather under the same one.

Hmmm

[Kaslin]

One of the liberal canditates called Iraq a quagmire the other day, and after thinking it over I have to agree with the candidate. Iraq is a quagmire

For the left

[NonValueAdded]

Michael Yon's piece. Come Home [Yon - Do yourself a favor and read this one] Truly worth the read.

[Dog]

As Freeper Allegra said...

"This ain't no way to run a quagmire!"

[elhombrelibre]

IBD Editorial ping on progress in Iraq.

[Allegra]

There's an eery silence out there about what's going on in Iraq. It's almost as if the silence is, well, intentional.

OK, who has that Captain Obvious graphic? ;-)

[elhombrelibre]

I always believed the greatest indicator of success would be whenever the MSM quit reporting on Iraq. I thought that would mean they could no longer use the story of Iraq and its people for their political agenda. Too bad I didn’t write that prediction before it happened.

[Allegra]

I always believed the greatest indicator of success would be whenever the MSM quit reporting on Iraq. I thought that would mean they could no longer use the story of Iraq and its people for their political agenda. Too bad I didn’t write that prediction before it happened.

I had wondered how they were going to handle it when it happened.

Now we know. ;-)

[FARS]

Thanks for the ping. As always.

[jveritas]

One day my FRiends we will remember the days where in our darkest hours, at a time of great desperation, a time where most lost hope, a time where traitors at home were working so hard to surrender, a time where people who we sought were on our side lost fatih, a minority of Patriots stood behind our brave troops and President Bush and believed in VICTORY... and finally VICTORY was achieved.

God bless our brave troops and President Bush.

God bless America.

[elhombrelibre]

No problem.

[maica]

A Monday bump to get the disgusting remarks of Reid and especially Schumer on the record of this thread. Normal Democrat thinking is revealed by Schumer's referral to the "price" President Bush has to pay in order to get money for "his" war. To whom does this price have to be paid, one might ask. Why, to the Democrats, the true Lords of the Universe, of course.

From the editorial:

The Democrats are denying our troops the funds they need to finish their job by playing games like Friday's, when they tried to tie $50 billion in funding to massive troop withdrawals, beginning almost immediately.

The measure failed in the Senate by seven votes. But the question remains: Why would they do such a thing in a war America is on the verge of winning?

Meanwhile, as if that vote wasn't enough, Democrats ripped Iraq's government — apparently oblivious to what's going on in Baghdad.

"Every place you go you hear about no progress being made in Iraq," Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday. "The government is stalemated today, as it was six months ago, as it was two years ago. It is not getting better; it is getting worse."

Virtually nothing in those three sentences is true — unless you replace "Iraq" with "Congress." Yet, Reid speaks for his party. As Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer said, "The days are over when the money is sent no questions asked, when the money is sent without a price."

Yes, "price." That last word is telling, for the "price" the Democrats are exacting by playing politics comes out of our troops hides — not Washington's. Our troops in Iraq need the resources to finish this war. By not funding them to the level needed to win, Congress will certainly endanger lives — and make victory a bit harder.

If the Democrats want to keep playing politics as Iraq turns, fine. But what do they do next year if, as now looks likely, the U.S. wins?