Needless to say, the MSM is not reporting any of this, and we are led to believe that Iraq is just a landscape of craters and refugees. It is not, and the expectations of Iraqis for greater security and liberty are growing ever stronger.
This is evidence again of the nobility of our military personnel and the heroism of Iraqis, rebuilding from the ruins of Baathist fascism.
Funny, Fred Barnes said EXACTLY the same thing on Fox just a few minutes ago.
I think we are at the point the Union was at in early 1864;
the nay-sayers were demanding an end to the endless war,
and the replacement of Lincoln.
They had no idea how close they were to victory, and were ready to throw everything away.
To all the doom and gloomers here please read this article...
I read Zinsmeister's "Boots on the Ground" about his experiences as an embed with the 82nd Airborne in the initial invasion in 2003. Well-written and pro-soldier. A perfect combination, to my way of thinking.
This article has just explained for me why Newsweek did their flushed Koran story AND why that low life Druban said what he said. They knew this! They knew things were getting better in Iraq!
So now I'm left wondering were they trying to stir up problems to make it worse in Iraq again? And could it be they were trying to breed new terrorists with their traitorous words?
Free Iraqi
I was not living before the 9th of April and now I am, so let me speak!
About Me
Name:Ali Location:Baghdad, Iraq
"During the war these kids (most of them are teenagers) patrolled our neighborhood with an obvious sense of pride, you know, like they're the men who are protecting their country, and needless to say, none of them fired a bullet and they all came back to their homes even before the end of the war with their only gain, their rifles that no one was going to ask them to bring them back.
Soon after the war, some Ba'thists in more friendly or neutral neighborhoods like ours started to re-organize themselves. They made sure to be the 1st ones who get to the weapon cashes in these districts and they distributed them among their supporters; the same teenagers and common criminals. I was one of the people who asked an American unite stationed in our district to go on a search for these weapons which were surely going to be dangerous sooner or later. American officers there told us that they don't like to go searching homes and act like occupiers and that they preferred if people handed their weapons by themselves and they asked for our help in this. They also told us that these kids can retain their arms to defend themselves against criminals but that they should lower them when they see an American patrol...................."
I notice in Iraq the use words in timeframe.."before" or "after" the war. Your post reminded me of this Iraqi authored post.
Ali also writes: "Operation lightning (I called it thunderbolt in a previous post so I apologize for that mistake) seems to be going better than what I expected in terms of reducing violence in Baghdad. I think everyone who's following the news must've seen that the attacks in Baghdad these days are getting less than before, and here on the ground we can see the same thing. Not just terrorist attacks that has been reduced but even regular crimes, as it seems that part of the operation is focusing on capturing regular criminals who are in addition to their usual criminal activities do form, in my mind, the right hand for the Ba'athists......."