Winning: News from Iraq gets better by the day, but the media have done their best to downplay the turnaround and congressional Democrats have basically pulled the covers over their heads and pretended it doesn’t exist.
Progress, Progress And More Progress
• In Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, British Major Gen. Graham Binns said that attacks against British and American forces have plunged 90% since the start of September.
• Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reported that terrorist attacks of all kinds are down almost 80% from last year’s peak ” thanks directly to the U.S. surge of 30,000 new troops.
• Amid growing signs that even Iraq extremists have tired of terrorism and killing, a Sunni religious group closed down the high-profile Muslim Scholars Association because of its ties to terrorists.
• U.S. Major Gen. James Simmons, speaking in Baghdad, said Iran’s pledges to stop sending weapons and explosives into Iraq “appear to be holding up.” Roadside bombs, the leading killer of U.S. troops, have plunged 52% since March, he added.
• Perhaps most touching, according to a report from Michael Yon, who deserves to be the first blogger to win a Pulitzer Prize, Muslims are asking Iraqi Christians to return to help build Iraq.
Iraqi Muslims recently crammed into St. John’s Catholic church in Baghdad to attend a Christian service. According to Yon, “Muslims keep telling me to get it on the news. ‘Tell the Christians to come home to their country Iraq.’ ”
• Finally, there’s this from Douglas Halaspaska, a reporter on the Web site U.S. Cavalry ON Point: “I came to Ramadi expecting a war and what I found was a city that has grown from the carnage, and all its inhabitants ” both Iraqi and American ” healing. I was not expecting what I found in Iraq . . . it was better than all of that.”
Why is it that the Democrats ad the MSM won’t acknowledge this? Could it be that they have a vested interest in losing? The MSM, because that is how they have sold it, and the Democrats, because that is how they got elected…Both the MSM and the Democrats worked in tandem to get the message out: We will not be successful in Iraq. When evidence points to the contrary, silence, or people who should have remained silent or fired. When will this cone of silence be lifted? Could this be what Kristol was talking about?
Iraq is not a failure. There have been mistakes made, but as I have said, our military is fighting against an enemy that wears no uniform and a political party that wishes defeat for it’s own troops. We still have much to do, but at this time, I think that acknowledging progress is in order.
You don’t have to shave below your neck. It was joke 
You know at least 20 ways to open a beer bottle. Its joke 
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November 18, 2007 - 04:43 PM on November 18th, 2007
Wouldn’t it be nice if the democrats actually wished our success? I believe in my heart that if they had been more supportive less mistakes would have been made, the morale of the troops would have been much greater and possibly the Iraqi’s would have been more successful sooner.
After all one has to remember we had abandoned them after the Persian Gulf War and coupled with the negative chants from the democrats they lived in fear we would abandon them again. I hope there is so much more progress made by the end of Bush’s term that there is no doubt we, along with the Iraqi’s, will prevail and a rock solid alliance will have been made.
November 18, 2007 - 06:06 PM on November 18th, 2007
Democrite leaders have officially now made their party the party of corruption, degeneracy, perjury, and treason.
November 18, 2007 - 06:27 PM on November 18th, 2007
Hi Robert…don’t forget the party of Surrender
November 19, 2007 - 07:08 AM on November 19th, 2007
I wish the public would force the damned Democraps to answer real, not planted questions in their “Debates”.
November 20, 2007 - 07:57 AM on November 20th, 2007
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November 20, 2007 - 08:46 AM on November 20th, 2007
Yeah…”Wolf” Blitzer, who should now be called “Lamb” Blitzer, was castrated shortly before his moderation of the so-called “Debate” which was a sham, being nothing more than an MSM Hillary showcase.
And pathetic morons reporting next day HilLiary won the debate! She won!!!