[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

and also as if America may have helped them to do so. The surge is only a part of this story.

[tomnbeverly]

Any minute now ... I’m waiting for the Dems to claim that ..

Oh yes Iraq is turning around but only because we threatened to remove the troops... Of course we never meant a word of it.. The troop withdraw threats were only done to entice the Iraqis to step up which oh golly Gee they have done..

Every Republican should be out in force screaming that if the Democrats had their way there would be NO troops in Iraq today and the country would have fallen to sectarian and Al-Qaida forces....

Period end of story.. Democrats continue to be on the wrong side of history.

[BOBTHENAILER]

What worries me about the reaction of liberals and Democrats is not the skepticism, which is pardonable, but the dank and sinister impression they give that the worse the tidings, the better they would be pleased.

Great article...thanks for the pig

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ping

[Earthdweller]

Hitchens may not be a Christian but with this evidence, I take him on his word that he is not anti-Christian. It seems the majority of the British and Europeans are inflicted with Christianophobia, blinding their reasoning on most things political.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Since Mr. Hitchens is a self-proclaimed anti-theist, to whom would he give thanks if he were to do so?

[advertising guy]

Hitchens is godless by his own admission.......who does he give thanks to ?

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[VOA]

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