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Posted on 07/30/2007 6:11:17 AM PDT by RealTeen
VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility. Yet now the administration’s critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.
Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.
After the furnace-like heat, the first thing you notice when you land in Baghdad is the morale of our troops. In previous trips to Iraq we often found American troops angry and frustrated — many sensed they had the wrong strategy, were using the wrong tactics and were risking their lives in pursuit of an approach that could not work.
Today, morale is high. The soldiers and marines told us they feel that they now have a superb commander in Gen. David Petraeus; they are confident in his strategy, they see real results, and they feel now they have the numbers needed to make a real difference.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
NYT?!
Who are you, and what have you done with the *real* New York Slimes?????????
Pigs flying or Global Cooling in Hell?
Pelosi and Reid deeply saddened.
Holy cr*p, actual reporting from the ground in Iraq
Scratch that. It’s an op-ed piece submitted by some Brookings folks. Glad they printed it, but this isn’t a NY Times staff piece of reporting.
The NYTimes?? Uh oh. Somebody's gonna have to pay for that slip past the editor's firewall!
Someone needs to shove a copy of this article up Murtha and Kennedys, uh, throat
Oh...I knew it couldn't be true.
I’m in shock that the NYT printed this. Will any other news outlets report on this as well I wonder?
This is just a guess, but I’m betting you wrote the piece and got it published. It you’re actually a “real teen”, I’m really impressed. I also enjoyed reading the piece on the link you provided.
Bump
Here in Ramadi we’ve known about this for weeks but better late than never the NYT sees the light! Now so long as Congress doesn’t pull the plug before we finish the job.
God bless our brave troops and President Bush.
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The Bush administration defines a plan, executes it, and, by the NYT own admission, begins to achieve success in Iraq, yet it still has "lost all credibility"? How can a sane person write this?
Both, I think.
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