America is making gains in Iraq

The North County Times-Californian ^ | February 9, 2008 | Maj. Gen. John Kelly, USMC

[2ndDivisionVet]

Good news from a Marine general.

[Southack]

It looks good.

[ARE SOLE]

Thanks 2DV, for getting out good news. Bump!

Regards

[Iris7]

There is a special place in my heart for The United States Marine Corps.

[gpapa]

Gen. Kelly has two Marine sons who served in Iraq also.

[Poetgal26]

I love hearing good news coming from Iraqi, Semper fi!

[elhombrelibre]

Iraq ping.

[elhombrelibre]

Iraq ping.

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks. I gotta hit the rack. My brain is in drain mode.

[jveritas]

Victory.

[elhombrelibre]

Yes.

[gpapa]

Also read this speech that Gen. Kelly gave last year (at BlackFive). http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/09/marine-general-.html

This part of the speech struck home with me. I guess I am showing my age as well.

“The reality was that when many in this room grew up, and I know I am showing my age here, we were surrounded by men, real men, who had gladly worn the country’s cloth in wars against fascism and communism. The earliest memories we had as kids back then were of comic books and paper backs that honored the sacrifices of the super heroes of those conflicts. It was a time when little boys could play guns, and weren’t considered at risk to be psychopaths. To stand up when the national anthem was played or say the pledge of allegiance and a prayer to any God you worshiped before school, wasn’t considered offensive to the sensitivities of the nation’s selfproclaimed intellectual elite. Places like Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, Normandy, Iwo Jima, the Chosin Reservoir, and Hue City, were real to us then, and we knew without thinking that we owed the nation a debt.”

[maine-iac7]

We should send this piece to every senator and congresscritter - make sure it gets on their desk

[NormsRevenge]

Bump for our brave young men and women who carry out their assigned missions in the finest traditions of the USMC.

[patriciaruth]

Ping.

[Diver Dave]

Salute to Maj. Gen. John Kelly, USMC and our fighting forces from an old Squid.
Meanwhile X-Marine Murtha continues undermine Real Marines.

[Just Lori]

Like Fallujah, the schools are open, markets thrive and post-war recovery gains momentum across Al Anbar. This war is not won but is being won, and today primarily by the Iraqis themselves. Al-Qaida is not defeated, but it is on the ropes. Its membership knows that if they are foolish enough to come out of the holes they hide in, they will not only meet tough young Americans standing firm and unafraid, but also Iraqi police and soldiers in vastly increased numbers and effectiveness.

No matter what has been accomplished in the WOT, most of the American MSM watchers will never know about it. It sickens me.

GOD BLESS our wonderful, awesome troops!

[Just Lori]

We should send this piece to every senator and congresscritter - make sure it gets on their desk.

Good idea! Most of them will ignore it, however.

[Just Lori]

There is a special place in my heart for The United States Marine Corps.

Ditto here! I love the Marines, but they didn't pull this off without the help of the Army,

The Air Force

Or any of the rest of our brave troops!

We need to keep each and every one of them in our hearts and in our prayers every single day, because

These awesome men and women are just that.....AWESOME!

We owe our most heart-felt thanks to them all!

[farmer18th]

I don't doubt that the surge, and the superior administration of Gen Patraeus, is bringing more order and peace to Iraq, but would someone answer a question for me?

Can Muslim countries EVER really approximate ordered, representative government with a free flow of ideas, some of which, inevitably, will be critical of the Q'uran? When we allowed the Iraqis to establish a constitution that put "Islam" above all else, did we betray the cause? Does the fact that Chaldean Christians have more trouble worshipping freely now, than they did under Sadaam, bother any of you?

Don't get me wrong. I have no trouble with war. But I have trouble with half-ass war. If we are going to conquer territory, conquer it, obliterate it, destroy it, homestead it, and send in the missionaries and the civil engineers to rebuild it.

But when we left Islam pre-eminant, were we fooling ourselves? This would have been like conquering Germany and allowing fascism to remain.