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Smells Like... Victory
IBD Editorials ^ | 22 May 2007 | Staff

Posted on 05/22/2007 7:11:14 AM PDT by Kitten Festival

War On Terror: In both Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. forces are making further impressive gains against terrorists. Don't expect Democrats to let that stop them from claiming that we're losing.

As part of the new surge strategy in Iraq, U.S. Marines and Iraqi army forces have arrested 250 terrorists in the large, once-unmanageable western province of Anbar, it was reported on Sunday. Operation Harris Ba'sil, or "Valiant Guardian," reached completion after eight weeks of disrupting enemy routes and shelters outside cities.

"We uncovered more than 250 caches, arrested over 250 suspected insurgents and discovered over 100 improvised explosive devices," Lt. Col. Michael Manning of Regimental Combat Team 2 reported.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anbar; iraq; surge; wot
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Anbar is succeeding. The surge is working. The media and the Dims are looking the other way. Victory is happening.
1 posted on 05/22/2007 7:11:14 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival

And next is cleaning out Baghdad when all the reinforncements are available next month.


2 posted on 05/22/2007 7:13:47 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Kitten Festival

3 posted on 05/22/2007 7:14:46 AM PDT by misterrob (Yankees Suck!)
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To: Kitten Festival

unless victory is proclaimed, it will never happen. We are losing the propaganda war. In this sense it really is Viet Nam all over again. We had better go for a very quick kill, because time is against us on the home front.


4 posted on 05/22/2007 7:15:29 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: Kitten Festival
"...Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards just called on Americans to spend Memorial Day demonstrating against the war in Iraq. That way, according to the former U.S. senator from North Carolina, the world will stop thinking "we're a bully and we're selfish"..."

This is utterly breathtaking. I am at a loss for words.

5 posted on 05/22/2007 7:15:38 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: Kitten Festival

IBD the conservative, intelligent, investors newspaper gets it right again!


6 posted on 05/22/2007 7:15:59 AM PDT by Issaquahking (Duncan Hunter for president!)
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To: Kitten Festival

IBD the conservative, intelligent, investors newspaper gets it right again!


7 posted on 05/22/2007 7:16:25 AM PDT by Issaquahking (Duncan Hunter for president!)
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To: Dog; Southack

For your information and assessment...


8 posted on 05/22/2007 7:21:04 AM PDT by eureka! (The 'rats have made their choice in the WOT and honest history will not be kind to them...)
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Remember how we won the war with Germany and Japan? We reached a point that said “That’s enough”. We fire bombed them and they quit. I don’t understand why we don’t demolish any building or buildings that house terrorists or weapons.


9 posted on 05/22/2007 7:22:16 AM PDT by RC2
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To: Kitten Festival; acad1228; AliVeritas; aomagrat; beachn4fun; BIGLOOK; blackie; bluesagewoman; ...
In both Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. forces are making further impressive gains against terrorists. Don't expect Democrats to let that stop them from claiming that we're losing.

Pinging a few friends...

10 posted on 05/22/2007 7:22:19 AM PDT by StarCMC (Honor military recruiters in all 50 states ~ May 19, 2007 ~ http://gatheringofeagles.org/?p=257)
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News we’d NEVER hear in the Has-Been Media!

Thanks for the good-news ping, Star!


11 posted on 05/22/2007 7:25:31 AM PDT by luvie (2 Pet. 3:10"..the earth..will be burned up." God promised REAL global warming.ALGORE can do nothing!)
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To: RC2

I am with you, I have asked that question myself. Enough already.


12 posted on 05/22/2007 7:28:35 AM PDT by tioga
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To: RC2

good point. All I have ever wanted done over there was simply what Sherman did to the South.


13 posted on 05/22/2007 7:28:36 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: rlmorel

It is absolutely breathtaking. A candidate for the highest office in the land just called Americans - our nation - imperialist conquerers - bad guys!


14 posted on 05/22/2007 7:30:34 AM PDT by Obadiah (I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.)
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To: RC2

I understand how you feel.

But the insurgents also recognize this dynamic, and routinely use the dwellings, property and land of innocent Iraqis against their will.

They couple that with a threat of dumping the headless body of their firstborn son on their doorstop if they help allied forces in any way.

After a few headless corpses appear, the community “helps” by being silent out of fear.

We cannot just demolish the houses and kill the people here. In WWII, the civilian populace was heavly invested by their own free will (for the most part) in the war effort. They were an integral part of the war machine.


15 posted on 05/22/2007 7:39:56 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: Kitten Festival

Excellent news.


16 posted on 05/22/2007 7:43:01 AM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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I don’t understand why we don’t demolish any building or buildings that house terrorists or weapons.

As a matter of fact, Our Boys in Iraq DO demolish buildings and even Minarets when the enemy is holed up too well inside of 'em.

Don't believe me? Try out YouTube and look for anything having to do with "US" "Army "Marines" OO-RAH!! and "Iraq". Plenty to see there.

17 posted on 05/22/2007 7:43:59 AM PDT by ExcursionGuy84 ("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
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To: Kitten Festival

It seems silly to be sending troops in when we have all these nuclear weapons sitting around...


18 posted on 05/22/2007 7:45:49 AM PDT by 99Volts
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To: StarCMC

BTTT


19 posted on 05/22/2007 7:51:57 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: Issaquahking

“IBD the conservative, intelligent, investors newspaper gets it right again!”

I think my subscription to WSJ is getting shaky.


20 posted on 05/22/2007 8:01:11 AM PDT by FastCoyote
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