[Dave Elias]

Four years into an occupation and less than half the capital city is secured?

Sounds like a result.

[WashingtonSource]

Good report.

[Eagles6]

The msm says that America is "tired" of the war, that we are not winning.

They also predicted 10,000-50,000 US killed in the Iraq and Afghan wars.

The American fighters are not tired and casualties are far less than predicted.

Perhaps the msm would like the US to go in hard and be less discriminating, resulting in more US casualties and more false charges of war crimes. Yeah, I think that's what they'd like.

[George W. Bush]

Today about 48 percent of Baghdad is secured, with 7 percent under the control of the Iraqi security forces in the retain phase.

There's something pathetic about a government that can't even secure it's own capital unaided after all this time and all the money we've spent on them.

This thing will fall to pieces the second we leave. And then what will the sacrifice of our soldiers be for? It won't be for peace or for freedom because they are an Islamic "democracy" (until they can vote in a theocracy or let some default Saddam-type dictator into office).

[berdie]

I can’t believe that a war can be fought with no civilian casualties. It is tragic..but true. I don’t believe that our military cannot win. But they cannot win if their hands are tied. So our soldiers fight with the specter of “You Killed Civilians” over their heads.

We won in WWII, but I don’t think we have the fortitude to win again. We are too P.C.

[ZULU]

Which half? The half underground??

The problem with the Iraqi war is not that it happened.
We needed to do what we did. There was more than ample justification.

The problems came AFTER we defeated the Iraqi military and we refused to FINISH the job and take out the ayatollahs and the Syrian Baathists, instead of engaging our troops, their lives, and our money in an attempt to create a democracy where none ever before existed.

[cuky]

I love the site “The Fourth Rail”. They present the real picture in Iraq. Did you read 2 days ago “20 found beheaded in Iraq”, that was splashed in the MSM? Today we read from the DoD that the story was FALSE, planted probably by terrorist sympathizers. Did I find that written in the MSM? No, I found it through The Fourth Rail. The ONLY reason the terrorists are having any success is the leftist, socialist MSM. So sad.