Posted on 06/08/2009 11:11:29 AM PDT by Starman417
I warned over a year ago that Dems would try and claim victory as their own!
We haven't heard much about Iraq lately. Probably because we won in 2008 and the story was no longer interesting. But it is nice to see some in the "news" media finally realize how very wrong their defeatist attitudes in 2006 and 2007 were.
Victory In Iraq By Fareed Zakaria NEWSWEEK June 6, 2009...When the surge was announced in January 2007, I was somewhat cautious about it. I believed that more troops and a proper counterinsurgency strategy would certainly improve the security situation—I had advocated more troops from the start of the occupation—but I believed that the fundamental problem in Iraq was political discord among the country's three main sects and ethnic groups. The surge, in my view, would alleviate those tensions but also postpone the need for a solution. Only a political agreement among these groups could reach one.
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Victory in Iraq is Bush’s legacy. These morons were against it all along until they saw votes.
Ain't gonna fly. The left went wayyyyy out of it's way to bash the Iraqi war and Bush. There's no way anyone, even the farthest leftist, will believe spin like that. It's too far out there. It's not even close.
Oh, they won’t believe it. But they’ll say it. And after enough saying it, they’ll believe it.
I think they’re going to try to lose it, and then say it was never really won at all. Bushfault.
Born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
-PJ
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