NO! NO! NO! NO!
The Surge is Working!!!
Posted on 02/21/2008 5:57:54 PM PST by Kaslin
"No one can spend some 10 days visiting the battlefields in Iraq without seeing major progress in every area. ... If the U.S. provides sustained support to the Iraqi government — in security, governance and development — there is now a very real chance that Iraq will emerge as a secure and stable state."
—Anthony Cordesman, "The Situation in Iraq: A Briefing From the Battlefield," Feb. 13, 2008
This from a man who was a severe critic of the postwar occupation of Iraq and who, as author Peter Wehner points out, is no wide-eyed optimist. In fact, in May 2006, Cordesman wrote that "no one can argue that the prospects for stability in Iraq are good."
Now, however, there is simply no denying the remarkable improvements in Iraq since the surge began a year ago.
Unless you're a Democrat. As Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., put it, "Democrats have remained emotionally invested in a narrative of defeat and retreat in Iraq."
Their Senate leader, Harry Reid, declares the war already lost. Their presidential candidates (eight of them at the time) unanimously oppose the surge. Then the evidence begins trickling in.
We get news of the Anbar Awakening, which has now spread to other Sunni areas and Baghdad. The sectarian civil strife that the Democrats insisted was the reason for us to leave dwindles to the point of near disappearance.
Much of Baghdad is returning to normal. There are 90,000 neighborhood volunteers — ordinary citizens who act as auxiliary police and vital informants on terror activity — starkly symbolizing the insurgency's loss of popular support. Captured letters of al-Qaida leaders reveal despair as they are driven — mostly by Iraqi Sunnis, their own Arab co-religionists — to flight and into hiding.
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NO! NO! NO! NO!
The Surge is Working!!!
That's easy.
If the American public had been told back in 2002 that the U.S. invasion of Iraq would result -- at a cost of thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars -- in the establishment of an Iraq in which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion, they would have rightly decided that it wasn't worth it.
"War on Terror," my @ss.
"This war is a failure why haven't we captured Osama Bin Laden yet?"
"Why did the Bush administration fire those 8 US attorneys?"
"Iraq? lalalala... I can't hear you ...lalalala..."
“But..but...but...it’s a *jobless* recovery!!!!”
That’s a load of ... If we hadn’t gone into Iraq, there’d have been the start of a regional wae in the Middle East, that would still be in full swing. The Saddam Fedayeen were a *terrorist/guerilla army, and they were bound for Israel...Not to mention all the daily suicide bombings that Saddam was funding and supplying...the aide he was was giving Arafats terror groups,,,Iran & Syria with ther HizbAllah.
Not top mention UBL and all their training camps.
You Dims, You are such meatheaded dunces. For all your stupid lies about how GW Bush is supposedly so “incurious”, you can’r see the forest for the trees. And like the Eloi that you are, you plan to rectify the situation by electing a smooth crooning pied piper, that you don’t know the first thing about how he’d execute the duties of his office.
You Dims are so lazy brained and cowardly dumb, you just can’t wait to back yourselves into a corner, so that you can be stabbed to death on the pointy end of the sticks of history.
Sheesh!
And what did you think they would choose, the friggen pope? Get real, Everyone agreed that Sadam was a threat until the Dims and the media took over, and people like you would be the first to condemm our goverment for doing nothing.
Hey at least the whole thing paid for itself...
They’ll talk about the economy.
They’ll whine about Sadr possibly ending the cease fire.
If the American public had been told back in 2002 that the U.S. invasion of Iraq would result — at a cost of thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars — in the establishment of an Iraq in which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion, they would have rightly decided that it wasn’t worth it.
Actually, many at the time estimated that the deaths could exceed 30,000.
What is remarkable about this war is the lack of casualties. We are now at about 7% of the combat deaths of Vietnam. At the current rate of the last six months, it will take another 90 years to reach Vietnam's level.
I do not speak lightly, my son has been to Iraq 4 times.
This: “Healthcare Economy Healthcare Economy Healthcare Economy”...and so on.
My thinking on this is Sadr prefers a Rat in the WH so he will lay low until GW makes his exit. Rats make things easy for muzzies.
Regards
Critics will will morph into supporters and claim credit for it.
Those constantly decrying the not-finding of WMD's in Iraq seem oddly unaware that the WMD's would have been used on our invading forces. Thanks to the Lord that this did not occur.
And many thanks to your son and his family for his service in Iraq.
Of course they would. The left and the Muzzies have been in legion since the beginning. That includes Russia, China, Venezuela, Bolivia, Alberta's Child, et al., and the Democrats. Bush has defeated them all. How that must grate. That stupid, awkward, blubbering cowboy has outwitted and out performed them all.
Where do they put the goalposts now?
If I were a Democrat you might have a point. I’ll stack my conservative credentials up against anyone else on this site.
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