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by JohnHuang2
Despite the fact that the surge is working, Democrats still see stunning progress being made by al-Qaeda in Iraq! That’s when they’re not too busy denying there’s an al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Democrats are so deep in denial, telling each other over and over that the surge has failed and our troops are on the run, the deniers even resorted to having their weekly radio address delivered by former Army Lt. Gen. Richardo Sanchez, the new pin-up who was fired for incompetence in Iraq. Ricky Richardo was top commander in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004 — a period in which Democrats insisted al-Qaeda was winning, just like they’re insisting al-Qaeda’s winning today.
(President Bush thanked the troops in his Saturday radio address, so Democrats felt the need to offer a rebuttal!)
But — to be fair — below I list some of the recent developments in Iraq (technically known as ‘facts’) and attempts by the surge deniers to respond, in their own words.
- Fact: Iraqi civilian casualties are down 75 percent in Baghdad, 60 percent nationwide. Violence is down to the lowest levels in nearly 2 1/2 years. Right now, the only bombing appears to be De Palma’s war flick.
“What I believe is that all this talk of casualty counts
going down, that is wrong.” — Gov. Bill Richardson
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- Fact: The number of attacks have dropped over 55 percent since the surge began in February, down two-thirds since June. There were a total of 16 suicide bombings in October, a drop of 50 percent since the summer. Mortar rocket attacks in October dropped to the lowest level in nearly 20 months, improvised explosive device (IED) attacks have fallen about 80 percent.
“It’s not getting better; it’s getting worse.” — Sen. Harry Reid
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- Fact: The Times of London reports that “Iraqi refugees are returning home in dramatic numbers, concluding that security in Baghdad has been transformed. Thousands have left their refuge in Syria in recent months” and “Saida Zaynab, the Damascus neighbourhoods once dominated by many of the 1.5 million Iraqi refugees, is almost completely deserted.” The Times quotes a U.N. spokesman admitting that “’there is a large movement of people going back to Iraq. We are doing rapid research on this.’”
“Because the Pentagon says it, you believe it?!!!
You believe what the Pentagon says?!! Huh?!!!
After all the things that they have told us?!!! —
Rep. John Murtha, yelling at reporters during a news conference.
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- Fact: The number of U.S. troop casualties dropped to levels not seen since February 2004 and U.S. combat deaths have also dropped, from 126 in May to 38 last month — lowest since March 2006. Attacks on U.S. soldiers have dropped to the lowest levels since before the February 2006 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra, just before we “lost” the war.
“This is not working, it’s a war without end,
there is no light at the end of the tunnel,
we must reverse it.” — House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi
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- Fact: Iraqi security force casualties are down 40 percent in recent months and a surge of 20,000 Sunnis and Shiites have enlisted with the Iraq government to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq.
“We need to stop refereeing their civil war and
start getting out of it.” — Sen. Hillary Clinton
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- Fact: The Iraqi government now has full control of Basra, the second largest city in Iraq, after the recent British forces handover.
“The Iraq War is a civil war [and I’m the only candidate
who has offered] a comprehensive plan to end the war.”
— Sen. Joe Biden
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- Fact: Oil is flowing at the highest levels in 5 years and, with over 70 percent of al-Qaeda’s ‘bombs-for-virgins’ and head-hacking cells destroyed, applications to start small to medium-sized businesses have skyrocketed — up 500 percent in Baghdad alone, according to a New York Post report.
“The (American) occupation is fueling the insurgency . . .
the troops should be brought home now . . . (we Democrats)
should tell President Bush ‘we’re not going to give you another
dime, we’re not putting another bill on the floor, bring them
home now!’” — Rep. Dennis Kucinich
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Opening a crack in the Democrats’ huge dam of denial, even the Associated Press is starting to figure out that al-Qaeda has suffered massive defeat, especially in the capital, where “twilight brings traffic jams to the main shopping district of this once-affluent corner of Baghdad, and hundreds of people stroll past well-stocked vegetable stands, bakeries and butcher shops. To many in America, it seems little short of a miracle.”
Bush-Petraeus have blown a hole in the Democrats’ Iraq life boat, so it all seems like a nightmare to the poor little darlings. Even that recent pet market bombing in Baghdad — which libbies got really excited about, ‘AL-QAEDA IS BACK! YESSSSS!’ — turned out to be the work of some Iranian-backed group (”Special Groups”) trying to make it look like al-Qaeda did it so as to kick start the slumping shia militia business. Didn’t work.
Democrats still try to comfort themselves with the fantasy that al-Qaeda is winning since the Baghdad government hasn’t passed an oil law. Don’t need one — oil revenue is reaching the provinces anyway and the locals are using it to rebuild. Modified de-Baathification law? Don’t need one — the Sunnis already have joined the Great Satan in seeing off al-Qaeda.
Democrats in Congress argue that the surge that’s working isn’t really working since the Parliament is dysfunctional, can’t get work done, is mired in low approval ratings — a scenario known technically as Pot calls Kettle black.
With Democrats in free-fall, lacking an ‘exit strategy’, al-Qaeda on the run and Congress taking a beating in the polls, next November will be nothing short of a nightmare for the Traitorcratic Party.
Anyway, that’s...
My Two Cents...
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