"Do not believe this propaganda from BushCo's Puppets of Deceit and Trickery... We still have time to Surrender..."
Posted on 06/10/2008 1:42:59 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
America is very close to succeeding in Iraq. The "near-strategic defeat" of al Qaeda in Iraq described by CIA Director Michael Hayden last month in the Washington Post has been followed by the victory of the Iraqi government's security forces over illegal Shiite militias, including Iranian-backed Special Groups. The enemies of Iraq and America now cling desperately to their last bastions, while the political process builds momentum.
These tremendous gains remain fragile and could be lost to skillful enemy action, or errors in Baghdad or Washington. But where the U.S. was unequivocally losing in Iraq at the end of 2006, we are just as unequivocally winning today.
By February 2008, America and its partners accomplished a series of tasks thought to be impossible. The Sunni Arab insurgency and al Qaeda in Iraq were defeated in Anbar, Diyala and Baghdad provinces, and the remaining leaders and fighters clung to their last urban outpost in Mosul. The Iraqi government passed all but one of the "benchmark" laws (the hydrocarbon law being the exception, but its purpose is now largely accomplished through the budget) and was integrating grass-roots reconciliation with central political progress. The sectarian civil war had ended.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), swelled by 100,000 new recruits in 2007, was fighting hard and skillfully throughout Iraq. The Shiite-led government was showing an increasing willingness to use its forces even against Shiite militias. The announcement that provincial elections would be held by year's end galvanized political movements across the country, focusing Iraq's leaders on the need to get more votes rather than more guns.
Three main challenges to security and political progress remained: clearing al Qaeda out of Mosul; bringing Basra under the Iraqi government's control; and eliminating the Special Groups safe havens in Sadr City.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
"Do not believe this propaganda from BushCo's Puppets of Deceit and Trickery... We still have time to Surrender..."
Wow and this whole time I thought it was the 4000+ U.S. dead, 10,000+ wounded, and untold billions of dollars we spent on that hole he calls a country.
Learn something new every day.
Now that Iraq is headed towards a huge success, the RATs will start raising issues and the media will cover those issues (Kucinich articles of impeachment, torture special counsel, Obama's desire to sick his AG after war criminals, etc. etc. etc.) at the expense of the Iraq success.
The Democrat Party and the liberal news media.
Lying Liberal Losers all including #1 LLL NOBAMA!
35,000 dead in Korea. Was it worth it ?
I would say so. The East did not become Red. Hundreds of millions were saved from massacre and decades of communism.
(”The East is Red” was the Maoist anthem. )
The Asian “Tigers” were hatched.
Iraq will be the same sort of thing.
I’m not necessarily saying it’s not worth it—most likely it will be. But the title of that article giving credit to that do-nothing jackass Maliki rather than the enormous sacrifices made by the military and our country......it gets me riled up.
LOL! Where are those idiots who bayed at the moon that Gen Petraeus “Betrayed Us?”
Godpseed and hold steady on course, George Bush and General Petraeus.
OUTSTANDING!!!!
ROFL!
BTTT!
Can they both have credit? Afterall, Im one of those guys thats done several tours in the WOT. Give credit where it is due!
If you insist.
Great Work !!!
bump bump bump a thousand times bump
Nice job.
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