Posted on 02/13/2009 4:30:22 PM PST by Steelfish
Iraq: Good News Is No News
By Charles Krauthammer Friday, February 13, 2009.
Preoccupied as it was poring over Tom Daschle's tax returns, Washington hardly noticed a near-miracle abroad. Iraq held provincial elections. There was no Election Day violence.
Security was handled by Iraqi forces with little U.S. involvement. A fabulous bazaar of 14,400 candidates representing 400 parties participated, yielding results highly favorable to both Iraq and the United States.
Iraq moved away from religious sectarianism toward more secular nationalism. "All the parties that had the words 'Islamic' or 'Arab' in their names lost," noted Middle East expert Amir Taheri.
"By contrast, all those that had the words 'Iraq' or 'Iraqi' gained."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Kraut doesn’t even realize that Obozo would prefer Saddamn was President than Iraqis being free. He wants us to be enslaved too.
Pray for America and Our Troops
God Bless President Bush and our wonderful military who struggled so hard to win the freedom for Iraq. Fighting Saddam, Al Qaeda, and muslim fanatic terrorists as well as the traitorous democrats here in our nation and the communists throughout the world! Our leader and his heroes defeated them all! God Bless them all and God Damn Obama and his minions all!
The media will ignore Iraq and our military.
Amen.
QUESTION
Since when did winning a long war not been major, front page news?
ANSWER
Only if it means acknowledging W’s leadership.
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