[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?”

[TomasUSMC]

Continue to stabilize and build the institutions of civil order and democracy

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Democracy can’t co-exsist under Islam. Turkey’s Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) its first president learned that. Led by Atatürk the country saw a steady process of secular Westernization through Atatürk’s Reforms, which included the discontinuation of religious and other titles; the closure of Islamic courts and the replacement of Islamic canon law with a secular civil code modeled after Switzerland’s and a penal code modeled after the Italian Penal Code;

Compare that with the present Iraqi constitution that states NO LAW SHALL CONTRADICT ISLAM.

We must change this or we will end up with another oil rich country that considers US an infidel country.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

We are left with one question:

“What if we won a war and the press didn’t show up to report it?”

Indeed, we'd need to become the press. And, we are.