On the Verge of Victory?
Harry Reid, John Murtha and other anti-war fools might soon be dining on second and third helpings of crow if this NY Post article is right. Here’s what they’re reporting:
The latest proof came last month, as the Iraqi army, just a few months ago the target of scorn and abuse from Democratic politicians and journalists, forcefully reoccupied three cities that had served as key insurgency bases (Basra, Sadr City and Mosul).
Sunnis and Shias alike applauded as their nation’s army compelled insurgent militias to lay down their arms. The country’s leading opposition newspaper, Azzaman, led the applause for the move into Mosul, a sign that national reconciliation in Iraq is under way and probably irreversible.
US combat deaths in May also were down to 20, the lowest monthly total since February 2004. The toll for May 2007 was 121.
The Iraqi military was either incompetent or corrupt. Now it’s becoming a proficient fighting machine. Democrats, initially John Murtha, said that there wasn’t “a military solution” to Iraq’s problems. Eventually, Sen. Obama joined the chorus of naysayers:
In a speech five months ago, I argued that there can be no military solution to what has become a political conflict between Sunni and Shi’a factions. And I laid out a plan that I still believe offers the best chance of pressuring these warring factions toward a political settlement, a phased withdrawal of American forces with the goal of removing all combat brigades from Iraq by March 31st, 2008.
If I were cynical, I’d ask what Sen. Obama meant when he talked about “a political settlement.” Was he talking about Iraqis reconciling its political differences or was he talking about political conditions becoming right here in the United States for Democrats to abandon our patriotic Iraqi allies?
What’s most important is that Sen. Obama was wrong that there wasn’t a military part on the path to Iraqi reconciliation. It’s important to note that Sen. Obama has campaigned on the same anti-war message since jumping into the race. That was fine when he was running for the nomination. Sen. Obama could still get away with it if the war was being lost.
Though Sen. Obama won’t admit it, the war is being won and his opponent is the man who advocated the right policy. I’m betting that that won’t cut it with voters this November. I’m betting that they’d rather get it right than stick with a failed plan for ideological purposes.
That’s why Sen. Obama doesn’t dare visit Iraq. The minute he sets foot in Iraq, he’ll be inundated with good news reports. That’s also when the media will highlight the improving conditions. That will draw lots of comparisons on the issue, none of which will cast Sen. Obama in a flattering light.
Technorati Tags: Harry Reid, John Murtha, Obama, Iraq, John McCain, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
June 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
If Obama went to Iraq, he would quickly find out that he can walk around freely as long as he’s surrounded by hundreds of troops and apache helicopters. He would also learn that Gen. Petreus goes to Baghdad in an unarmored humvee. He would then find Saddam Hussein’s WMDs hiding under Osama bin Laden’s turban.
Meanwhile, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s 200-page “Phase II” concluded that the president and his top officials deliberately misrepresented secret intelligence to make the case to invade Iraq. http://intelligence.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=298775
Then there’s McCain saying that it’s “not too important” when American troops come home. And when they do, we won’t pay for their education unless they serve more.
June 11th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
First, The New York Post? Please. Try reading a real newspaper.
Second, Obama said there was not military solution to a political problem, and not as you suggest. Don’t put words in his mouth, especially when trying to slime him for your words. Its just bad form, and shows your agenda, not his.
Finally, you are correct when you say “I’m betting that they’d rather get it right than stick with a failed plan for ideological purposes.” Since the failed plan your talking about is the surge, which along with the entire war, was all about idealogical purposes and had little to do with doing the right thing, I’m confused as to what you’re saying. Not that that is new, but what you’ve said actually supports Obama’s positions (not to mentioned, the rest of the rational country). To whit, we’d all like to get it right, but that means getting out of Iraq, where less than 2% of the enemy identifies as al Queda, and get ahold of Afghanistan, where the Taliban and al Queda are stronger than they have ever been (and for those of you obsessed with 9/11, that means both before and after).
So, the bottom line is that Obama has it right, and McSame is, once again and just like the criminal Bush, dead wrong.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:47 am
It’s moe than clear the two libtard commie pinko tree huggers don’t give one iota about Iraq that just routed the terror killers in their cities and let out one big unified cheer.
I guess all that smack talk about “you would fight if you were being invaded to !” only counts when they’re spewing their immense hatred against the USA and it’s military, not terrorist theocratic thugs like Al Sadr and his Madhi ghetto crew, that make the libtards real greatest fear, Jerry Falwell and the gay purple teletubby, clearly still their only enemy (since they are in fact, insane).
Just remember, the libtards always say their greatest patriotism is questioning their government, but what they really mean is hating and reacting uncontrollably and illogicially to their percieved political opposition, not to the government.
In the same way they love and support Al Sadr, and will never cheer once for the Iraqi people unless they rout their fellow US citizen soldiers from their midst, in complete and total alliance with the master dem of Al Qaeda himself, Osama Bin Laden.
The dems are 100% aligned with the enemy, they do want exactly what Osama has demanded, and their platform for election is to deliver it.
Just as they support slaughtering 1.5 million unborn American babies every single year, with lies and euphemisms and the freelove sex crazed perversions they cannot shake from their pathetically vulgar minds, they will support 100% needless slaughter of Iraqis with a forced withdrawl, and blame it on their domestic political enemies, just like they do their terroristic abortion murders, the evil political opposition that won’t pay for the child, raise it, provide freesedx and birth control, and all the other excuses they spew, and even after that they claim they want abortion free and “rare”. LOL
They are such pathetic pieces of crap I don’t know how they even have the will to open their god for saken pieholes and spew their endless lies.
They’ve selected Obama, when Hillary got more votes, abandoned their Al Gore really won screed, reversed it completely, and before it was even close to over demanded hitlery, their former empress, get the hell out of the way.
One can only understand when they see what a commie pinko America hating racist bigotted piece of crap Obama and his worse than even he wife are, as well as their connections to terror money and his islamic jihad stepdaddy war against Britain mosque upbringing to understand the dem traitorous mindset and fury that surges through their insane bowels.
McCarthy was 100% correct, the problem is there were so many more of them than he knew, and they’ve been a virus infecting everything we are for too long, it’s becoming an unhinged and unbelievable nightmare. 48 million babies murdered, import 48 million illegal aliens…
This crew today would be down on their knees kissing Hitlers ring, as we know the jew hate is surging through their demo ranks, and spewing forth from their conspiracy minded hate the man psycho pink base.
We don’t have enough pharmaceutical companies to dope out the diaper babies to negligible anymore, and after they demand all the psycho profiles and pump the kids they forbid spanking full of dope, they realize what jackasses they’ve been a start their own countermovement to correct their enormous error just prior.
People die by the MILLIONS because of these libtards - and that will not change, it will only get worse.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Bravo silicondoc, bravo.