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THE SURGE AT ONE:'FORLORN HOPE' A BIG SUCCESS
New York Post ^ | 1/11/2008 | Ralph Peters

Posted on 01/11/2008 9:09:25 AM PST by mojito

January 11, 2008 -- AS you read these lines, our troops are in the midst of Operation Phantom Phoenix, a "mini-surge" to squeeze al Qaeda and its fast-dwindling band of allies out of their few remaining safe havens in Iraq.

Iraqi troops fight beside us against a common enemy. Vast swaths of the country enjoy a newborn peace. Commerce thrives again. At the provincial and local levels, the political progress has been remarkable.

As for Operation Phantom Phoenix, our commanders expected terrorist dead-enders to put up a fight. Instead, they ran, leaving behind only booby traps and disgust among the Iraqis they tormented far too long.

Well, they can run, but they can't hide. We dropped 20 tons of bombs on 40 terrorist targets yesterday, including safe houses, weapons caches and IED factories. In a late-afternoon exchange with The Post, Gen. David Petraeus characterized our current ops as "executing aggressively, pursuing tenaciously."

The headlines at home? "Nine American Soldiers Killed." No mention of progress or a fleeing enemy on the front pages. Just dead soldiers.

Determined to elect a Democrat president, the "mainstream" media simply won't accept our success. "Impartial" journalists find a dark cloud in every silver lining in Iraq. And the would-be candidates themselves continue to insist that we should abandon Iraq immediately - as if time had stood still for the past year - while hoping desperately for a catastrophe in Baghdad before November.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; loserliberals; petaeus; usarmedforces
"And a final note: The Post had over a week's advance warning of Operation Phantom Phoenix, but didn't publish it. We don't share our nation's secrets with our enemies."
1 posted on 01/11/2008 9:09:29 AM PST by mojito
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To: mojito

Nice article.


2 posted on 01/11/2008 9:27:05 AM PST by Harry Pothead (One issue voter, who wil kill islamofacists?)
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To: Harry Pothead

“Duty, honour, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when ___hope becomes forlorn.___” - General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, USMA Class of 1903

“Duty, Honor, Country” is the valedictory speech given by General Douglas MacArthur at West Point on May 12, 1962.


3 posted on 01/11/2008 9:43:24 AM PST by Notwithstanding ("You are either with America in our time of need or you are not" - W? No, 'twas Sen. Hillary 9/12/01)
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To: mojito

Excellent article.


4 posted on 01/11/2008 10:10:16 AM PST by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: mojito

Thats a shot to all in teh liberal MSM who hate this country.


6 posted on 01/11/2008 11:17:36 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: mojito
Oh, and the left turned out to be dead wrong, as usual. We hadn't created an unlimited supply of terrorists. In fact, the supply turned out to be very finite, to al Qaeda's chagrin. And killing them worked. (One of the great untold stories of 2007 was the number of al Qaeda corpses.)

The most underreported story of 2007 was the success of the surge in Iraq.

7 posted on 01/11/2008 11:19:08 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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