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That’s the unmistakable message coming from this UPI article:

Al-Qaida militants in Iraq have taken heavy losses in two joint U.S.-Iraqi raids north of Baghdad, the U.S. military reported Thursday.

In one operation involving more than 1,000 U.S. troops and Iraq Special Forces in the Hemreen mountain area and Diyala river valley, three al-Qaida fighters were killed and 80 others were arrested, the Army statement said.

The report said four of the arrested men are considered senior leaders in the terror group, Kuwait’s KUNA news agency reported. U.S. air support was used to conclude the raid, after which a major weapons cache was found, the statement said.

Elsewhere in Salah Al-Din province, U.S. forces arrested 12 al-Qaida suspects and destroyed an entire house packed with explosives and weaponry, the report said.

Despite this information, John Edwards has bought 2 minutes of airtime on MSNBC to rebut President Bush’s speech tonight to preach his anti-war message:

“Unfortunately, the president is pressing on with the only strategy he’s ever had: more time, more troops, and more war,” Edwards says in the ad, according to excerpts provided by his campaign.

Someone should tell Sen. Edwards that pressing on with military operations is a good thing when you’re killing terrorists. That seems to have escaped Sen. Edwards. This is another telltale sign that Sen. Edwards is pandering to the MoveOn.org wing of the Democratic Party because that’s his only hope of getting the nomination.

It’s also proof that Sen. Edwards is a profile in political cowardice. If he won’t stand up to a fringe special interest group, why should we believe that he’d stand up to terrorists?

There’s more:

“Tell Congress you know the truth,” Edwards says. “They have the power to end this war and you expect them to use it. When the president asks for more money and more time, Congress needs to tell him he only gets one choice: a firm timeline for withdrawal.”

Sen. Edwards’ political timing doesn’t exist. If it existed, he wouldn’t buy ad time right when there’s news of a major operation that’s seriously degraded AQI’s capabilities in Diyala Province.

I’ve always thought that Barack Obama was an empty suit, vastly underqualified for being our next president. That said, it’s difficult to pick whether Obama is the emptiest suit amongst the Democratic presidential candidates or if John Edwards is.

It’s unfortunate that they weren’t actors in the 1980s. They would’ve been the perfect poster children for the old Wendy’s ‘Where’s the beef’ commercials.

Technorati Tags: AQI, Diyala Province, Iraqi Military, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Defeatocrats, President Bush

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 2:33 pm and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Election 2008, Iraq, Military, Special Interests, Terrorism, W. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.