Posted on 08/10/2007 10:23:17 AM PDT by Syncro
Exclusive: Pulitzer Prize Winning NY Times Writer: Pelosi, Reid are Wrong, The Petraeus Surge is Working
The Editors
Author: The Editors
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Date: August 9, 2007
John Burns, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, recently commented about fears of a Tet-like offensive by al Qaeda’s fighters and possible attacks by radical Shiia militias prior to the Petraeus report. Radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Burns if there have been warnings about such threats.
By the Editors
Radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt recently conducted an extensive interview with Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist John Burns, who is currently reporting from Baghdad where he sees marked progress in the military surge designed months ago by General David Petraeus and which is only now bearing fruit.
Mr. Burns told Hewitt that the most positive change that stands out immediately is the effect of the 30,000 additional troops who have been carrying out sweeps throughout areas which hithertofore had become Al Qaeda strongholds. News reports from the past few days confirm John Burns’ observations, as the success of Operation Arrowhead Ripper has now returned a new security environment in the formerly terror-controlled important town of Baqubah.
"They’re definitely making a difference in Baghdad, too," Burns told Hewitt. "Some of the crucial indicators of the war, metrics as the American command calls them, have moved in a positive direction from the American, and dare I say the Iraqi point of view, fewer car bombs, fewer bombs in general, lower levels of civilian casualties, quite remarkably lower levels of civilian casualties. And add in what they call the Baghdad belts, that’s to say the approaches to Baghdad, particularly in Diyala Province to the northeast, to in the area south of Baghdad in Babil Province, and to the west of Baghdad in Anbar Province, there’s no doubt that al Qaeda has taken something of a beating."
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Since when did The McCain Doctrine become “The Petraeus Surge”?
Thats gotta hurt.
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