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I’ve long believed that but now I’ve got syndicated columnists that agree with me. Based on this week’s columns, Ralph Peters definitely agrees with me.

Here’s part of his mocking of the Democrats Council of Defeatists:

Iraq’s government just released the first insider documents captured from terrorists in the raids surrounding Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death. The contents will horrify America haters in our media but won’t surprise Post readers:
We’re winning.
Yeah, the good guys. Our troops. And the Iraqi army. We’re winning. We were winning big even before we nailed Zarqawi. The terrorists themselves said so. In their state-of-the-troubled-union message to themselves. According to al Qaeda in Iraq, critics of “stay the course” need to stick it where the sun don’t shine: One key captured document states that “time is beginning to be of service to the American forces.”
Guess we ought to pull our troops out now. Right, Nancy? Howard? Teddy? John?
And that’s just a fraction of the good news that was plaguing the masters of terror. Zarqawi’s inner circle had concluded that:

• The Iraqi military and security forces had become painfully effective, paralyzing terrorist efforts in parts of Iraq where they’d previously moved freely.
• Losses due to U.S. and Iraqi strikes had badly sapped terrorist strength, and they were having grave difficulty gathering new recruits. Guess not everybody wants a Saturday-nighter with the virgins of paradise.
• While elements in our own media continued to claim that the terrorists couldn’t be defeated, the terrorists themselves felt that the Iraqi media’s reporting on terrorist atrocities had badly undercut their base of support.

I can’t put my finger on it but, for some reason, I don’t recall the Agenda Media painting that picture in American papers. Maybe I missed it as I read through the LA Times, Washington Post, NY Times, the AP and Reuters wires each day. Coming to think of it, the only place I saw it reported was in the Washington Times and NY Post. I probably just discounted it because those papers are just Rupert Murdoch-owned right wing propaganda rags.

That’s just a portion of what Col. Peters’ column. I’d strongly recommed that you read that entire column.

Then there’s this from his column from earlier in the week:

The strategic momentum has shifted. Fighting a terrorist movement takes time, sometimes a frustrating amount of it. But Bush’s trip drove home some undeniable facts:

• The American president can go to Baghdad. And our enemies can’t stop him. And the White House didn’t black out news of this visit until the prez was wheels-up for home; word broke while he was still in the Green Zone. One big Bronx cheer for the bad guys, for whom Bush’s visit was a humiliation.
• Iraq has an elected, functioning government of a quality that deserved a presidential visit. Image matters in the Arab world, and the symbolism of our president going to Baghdad to confer with Iraq’s prime minister instantly raised that new government’s stature.
• Americans aren’t quitters. As Bush pointed out to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, when Americans give their word, we stick to it, at least under this president. The terrorists and their media sympathizers haven’t been able to budge us. And we won’t come back ’til it’s over, over there.
• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is dead and won’t easily be replaced. The months ahead will still see plenty of violence, but Iraq’s already better off.

The hundreds of raids and arrests of terrorists in the wake of Zarqawi’s death have received scant media coverage (those three sweet, virtuous Gitmo terrorists were more important, you see), but this is huge news.
Once you crack a terror system open, one success leads to another. For a long time, the terrorists held the tactical initiative; now we’ve grabbed it. It’s a credit to fine intelligence work, good soldiering, and to the Iraqis struggling to save their country.
One presidential visit to Baghdad is worth a thousand pathetic declarations of defeat from Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean or Ted Kennedy, none of whom has shown the least respect for the democratically elected and courageous leaders of reborn Iraq.

The Agenda Media, along with the Democrats, put their eggs in the basket labeled “Teh President, and the military, can’t win in Iraq. For awhile, they thought they could garner enough support for that perspective to win. Bush’s Baghdad meeting with al-Maliki demolished that.

The only thing that I’d change from Col. Peters’ column is actually an addition to his “One presidential visit to Baghdad is worth a thousand pathetic declarations of defeat from Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean or Ted Kennedy…” I mean, what’s a sentence like that without having John Murtha linked to that crowd?

Based on this week’s events, you can either think of the Democrats as the Cut-And-Run party or the Party of Defeatists. Both fit them to a T, though neither paints a flattering picture of them.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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