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That isn’t a quote from his appearance on This Week but it’s essentially what he’s saying. Here is a direct quote from Sen. Webb:

“As long as he has the authority as commander in chief to conduct a war, he’s going to be able to control a lot of these sorts of things. I don’t think people are going to go against him in terms of cutting back the appropriations for more troops. The big question is, how are we going to turn this thing around? And I think despite a lot of the rhetoric that you’ve seen, we’ve started to do that.”

It’s obvious that Webb would rather pull the troops soon but he knows that it isn’t politically feasible to propose that right now. It’s also obvious that he’s reading from the Democrats’ talking points. It’s obvious because he isn’t saying anything about the solid progress that’s being made in Iraq, especially in Baghdad and Ramadi. As I said here, the cat’s out of the proverbial bag:

NBC’s Brian Williams recently reported a dramatic change in Ramadi since his previous visit. The city was safer; the airport more secure. The new American strategy of “getting out, decentralizing, going into the neighborhoods, grabbing a toehold, telling the enemy we’re here, start talking to the locals, that is having an obvious and palpable effect.” U.S. soldiers forged agreements with local religious leaders and pushed al-Qaeda back, a trend other observers have noted in some Sunni-dominated areas. The result, Williams said, is that “the war has changed.”

Webb, Pelosi and Murtha can’t keep that secret to themselves, though they’ll surely try.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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