Posted on 12/21/2007 3:42:10 AM PST by NCDragon
In a remarkable and rare display of both caution and good sense, no one in the Bush administration has begun doing victory laps over the good news from Iraq.
Yes, the numbers of American troops and Iraqi civilians dying there have fallen sharply in the past six months. So have the number of roadside bombs going off and suicide car bombs detonating. Anbar province is, at last and at the moment, relatively peaceful.
The Sunni Muslim jihadists of al Qaida in Iraq seem to be either in retreat or on a retreat, licking their wounds and rethinking their strategy. Better yet, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr's murderous Mahdi Army militia has largely stood down as he ordered it to last August.
In Baghdad, some neighborhoods have cautiously come back to life; open-air markets are again thronged with shoppers who for so long had cowered inside their homes out of fear of death squads and suicide bombers.
A small fraction — 20,000 or so — of the 2 million Iraqis who've fled from the terror across the borders to Syria and Jordan have begun to trickle home. Some forced by Syria's hardening attitude toward Iraqi refugees; others tempted by the good news from home.
All of this is good news; all of this is welcome news.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
As the saying goes, “everything before ‘but’ is BS.”
Don't be so sure the U.S. wasn't playing a strong covert role in a lot of these developments, O Jaundiced Media Scribe.
Hmmm....
Some 60plus years ago...
So let's review the bidding. The key decisions that have led to the reduction in the slaughter weren't made by us or by what passes for a national government in JAPAN. They were made by some of the people who were killing American troops just six months ago.
My point:
Yes, you dummy, the people who were doing the killing decided to stop killing...because of what the US is doing over there.
This guy's hilarious logic tells me the DUmmies are in a state of extreme PANIC. They see that in the end, the region will be better off for our intervention. This will be seen as JUSTIFICATION for the war.
That is something they simply cannot abide.
SO the spinning starts now--this was a war that shouldn't have been fought, because the results PROBABLY would have happened SOONER if we hadn't invaded.
You know what it is you're detecting from the opponents of the war? Flop sweat.
Huh? The Bushies hate tooting their own horn as a matter of principle. They don't take credit for anything, much less run out there ahead of time to claim credit. For that, look to Bill Clinton, who took credit for the Sun coming up every morning.
Well it’s not over for the media monopoly either, but that doesn’t mean the inevitable is not going to happen.
The MSM isn’t exactly known for their caution or good sense.
Yeah. And McClatchy's rotating slogans "Truth To Power" and "Trusted Voices," aren't examples of showboating and blowing it's own horn by Mr. Galloway's employer. In addition to being pure horse-puckey, unlike the performance of the Bush administration.
By the way, those empty, vapid, and fraudulant slogans appear on the same webpage and immediately above Mr. Galloway's nonsensical screed.
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