Posted on 03/18/2006 7:34:36 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Some have described the situation in Iraq as a tightening noose, noting that "time is not on our side"and that "morale is down." Others have described a "very dangerous" turn of events and are "extremely concerned."
Who are they that have expressed these concerns? In fact, these are the exact words of terrorists discussing Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his associates -- who are describing their own situation and must be watching with fear the progress that Iraq has made over the past three years.
The terrorists seem to recognize that they are losing in Iraq. I believe that history will show that to be the case.
Fortunately, history is not made up of daily headlines, blogs on Web sites or the latest sensational attack. History is a bigger picture, and it takes some time and perspective to measure accurately.
Consider that in three years Iraq has gone from enduring a brutal dictatorship to electing a provisional government to ratifying a new constitution written by Iraqis to electing a permanent government last December. In each of these elections, the number of voters participating has increased significantly -- from 8.5 million in the January 2005 election to nearly 12 million in the December election -- in defiance of terrorists' threats and attacks.
One of the most important developments over the past year has been the increasing participation of Iraq's Sunni community in the political process. In the volatile Anbar province, where Sunnis are an overwhelming majority, voter turnout grew from 2 percent in January to 86 percent in December.
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Exactly. Iraq is going swimmingly. There is no militarily effective resistance to the Coalition or Iraqi government forces. All you have is Islamo ts and Saddamites blowing themselves up with the women and children. It's horrific, but not even a tactical threat.
The only way we could lose is to surrender to defeatism.
The Post must have fumigated before this was published.
Go Rummy. Great comments...
BTTT!
BUMP!!!
BTTT
How about hearing from THE MAN himself??
Common sense to refute the imbecils.
As the mom of a war fighter, I say, that's good enough for me!!
Great article.
The incredibly inspirational developments in Iraq along with the booming economy will be suddenly discovered (by the MSM) the day after a Democrat is in the Whitehouse. Just like the way the dot-com, white-collar recession and the tanking stock market did not become an issue until Bush took office.
20,000 terrorists in Iraq armed with AK47, IED, and RPJ against hundred of thousands of coalition troops armed with most advanced and lethal weapons in history, including 150,000 US troops the most powerful military in history of mankind, 8000 British troops, 10000 troops from other nations, and 250,000 Iraqi army and police.
The 20,000 terrorists’ attacks are directed at a rate that exceeds 80% against innocent civilians. Do you know about a war that was won by sending terrorist suicide car bombs to blow up women and children? It never happened before, it is not happening now, and it will never happen in the future.
The 20,000 terrorists in Iraq have the support of less than 10% of the Iraqi population and the absolute hate and disdain from over 80% of the population. Insurgencies in general are supported by the majority of population and it is an impossibility that any insurgency can win when 80% of the population absolutely hates it.
The 30,000 terrorists are located in three or four provinces at maximum out of the 18 provinces in Iraq. No insurgency can win if it cannot cover over 80% of a country land area.
The terrorist insurgency could not prevent any political milestone from occurring in Iraq, like parliamentary elections, forming of a government, referendum and approval of the Iraqi Constitution, etc… Any war without a political goal is guaranteed to fail.
Based on the above what are the chances that the terrorist insurgency in Iraq winning or going to win? Absolute zero.
We are winning this war against the terrorist in Iraq and soon we will achieve the ultimate victory.
Another way that we're gaining a lot in Iraq, is just in the experience that our young career officers are getting in fighting the lowest kind of human scum. Fighting monsters that kill children running to get some candy. After a year in Iraq, these officers aren't greenhorns who'll walk into an ambush easily, or take their eye off the ball easily. Not the ones who survive with their wits and their memory. A lot of this kind of knowledge goes straight to the gut, and never gets to the brain, but it's always there in the gut.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598965/posts
Looks like Allawi isn't as optomistic as Rummy...hm.
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