[Southack]

Now I don't know about you, but just how quiet does Iraq have to become before the answer is so obvious that even Democrats have to admit that Iraq is stable, prosperous, growing, and...

...won.

[Southack]

A development of note...

[SAJ]

Well, since the ''progressives'' have demonstrated that they've no even marginal grasp upon reality, I suppose the answer must be: ''By another factor of 10.''

Rather like ''clean air'', if you think about it for a moment. Nationally, the air is some 90% cleaner than in 1971 when Nixon (that a$$) signed that act. No improvement, however, is good enough for those who insist upon the asinine Roussavian doctrine of the ''perfection of man''.

(shrug)

[bray]

America and Iraq has won the war. AQ and the TraitorcRats have lost the war.

Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops

[Straight Vermonter]

Great news, especially for those with loved ones in harm’s way.

[Alia]

Thank you for the ping, Southack. Thank you for pointing this out. Were we in another era, the front pages would be screaming in LARGE BOLD PRINT, glad, of this news. The news would be triumphant!

OTOH, maybe this is also another reason why The New Yorker is getting such grief over its "Obama/Mama" cover -- the timing of their cover amid such low American casualties in the mid-east... vis a vis.. sure it's quiet and steady in Iraq and because the "terrorists" are here, running for Presidential office in the U.S.

Who knows... I'm not a liberal, hence, I don't grok the groupist/cult member mind set..

[WOSG]

PING for great news on the liberation of Iraq.

We need to write letters to the editor about this.

AQ in Iraq was never going to have a ‘signing ceremony on the Missouri”, they were going to be ground into dust and fade away. And it’s happened.

Obviously there is more to do, but the hard part we can now say is behind us, and the heavy lifting is now increasingly being done by Iraqis themselves.

We are in the endgame of the Iraq war, and we are winning decisively. As with the endgame of a chess game, this endgame is clearer than the middle. In the middle, the complexities are great and options are many; before the surge, we were not winning, and many factors could (and did) complicate things, from Mahdi Army to the actions of Sunni tribes, first against us, then with us; with the surge, we turned a stalemated struggle into crushing blows against the AQ terrorists; combined with the turnabout in the Sunni tribes and population, it turned the corner on violence. In the endgame, there are fewer outcomes possible. For US and Iraqi Government, the path to victory is clear enough. Continue to stabilize and build the institutions of civil order and democracy.

We are left with one question:
“What if we won a war and the press didn’t show up to report it?”

[Allegra]

I was going to wait until August 1 to mention this.

I've got a lot of Irish blood...superstition, ya know. ;-)

It is good news, isn't it?

[Allegra]

FYI-Curfew on Baghdad today due to al Qaeda’s nasty antics yesterday.

[Teacher317]

Many US cities lose more than one 20-something per week to violence... and those are CITIES, not nations. Iraq is safer than Detroit.