Tick tock…the clock is ticking on the surge.
With approximately a month until General David Petraeus proffers his progress report to Congress, already the pundits on the Left are bracing for the worst:
That the surge will work.
Sadly, in reading some of the running commentary, I was gravitated to this article from the Daily Kos, your source of Leftist propaganda. In the past I’ve hesitated to really discuss at length anything that comes from the Kos camp, as I perceive the vitriol to be really nothing more than childish name calling.
With that said, I watched “Victory or Retreat? The Surge and Politics” on Fox News this weekend. I found it compelling, convincing, and revealing.
-Compelling in that General David Petraeus, seems to understand what it takes for the surge to work, thus securing Iraq.
-Convincing in that the facts were accurate and, despite what the Left would say, irrefutable.
-Revealing in that despite overwhelming evidence that the surge is making progress, the Left wants nothing to do with it.
Why?…because the Democrats have hedged their bets on the anti-war side. Their biggest political gains will occur if the United States military withdraws in shame. Our loss in the Middle East is THEIR political victory.
So, brace yourselves for this running commentary from the Daily Kos’ DPR regarding the Fox News special.
“Now, onto the actual content in the "documentary". Throughout the documentary we are told that the surge is working. The "documentary" talks about the military victories that we are experiencing during the surge, while failing to discuss the Iraqis political crisis in dept. It seemed as if 99% of the "documentary" was written, directed, and produced by George W. Bush himself. I will let you watch the documentary for yourself to decide what you think, but here is a quick summary of the message that I heard in the "documentary.”
Note the use of “quotes” around the “documentary.” At no time during the broadcast did I think this documentary was created by anyone in the Bush administration. Unfortunately, the Left’s outlook and judgment on the war on terror and the Iraq War is so incredibly clouded by their Bush Derangement Syndrome, that they are willing to see the Middle East in a regional military conflagration, all JUST to embarrass President Bush.
Thus, the Left has grown incredibly reckless…
The question that needs to be asked of the Left is this: why are you so afraid the surge will work? Are you afraid of success? Or are you so blind with your Bush hating, that you will risk taking this country down just to ensure that Bush is a failure?
“Fox has possibly reached an all-time low. They did interview some people who were against the war, but they quickly used "evidence" to "disprove" their arguements. At the end we are left with the fact that the surge is working, and congress can decide if they want to win or lose this war. If we stay, the Iraqi government can start getting their act together. If we leave, this will be Vietnam all over again.”
Note the standard “anti-Fox” rhetoric from Fox News. Can anyone tell me how interviewing dissenting voices is a bad thing?
Fox’s "documentary" really shocked me. I shouldn’t be shocked, since Petraeus is set to report to Congress soon. Typical Fox News propaganda.
“If we leave, things are not going to get better. If we stay, things are going to get worse and worse, and hate for America is going to grow. The Democrats are not trying to prevent America from winning in Iraq. If the Democrats get their way and we leave Iraq, we will be told, by he Neocons, that it is their fault that we did not win. It’s pathetic. Blame George W. Bush. He took us into a war that we can not win. Even if we "win", and Iraq maintains a stable Democracy, is that even good for America? What kind of leaders would the Iraqis elect?”
At this point, the author has lost me. While he clearly blames Bush, the neocons, and the Republican Party for taking us into Iraq, he cedes the point that leaving Iraq will result in catastrophic failure. Yet, while blaming all things Right, he charges Bush for leading into a war “we cannot win.”
So is the author upset that we can’t win the war, or shouldn’t have invaded Iraq in the first place? I wasn’t quite what to make of this “commentary,” if you can call it that. The author attempted to defame Fox News, but I found no evidence that its reporting and facts weren’t compelling, convincing, and revealing.
Nice try though…
One move chess players.
Ranting away about how doomed the war in Iraq is, but at the same time giving a full on rah rah rah to Democrats
1) Congressional Democrats who have effectively done NOTHING either win the war or facilitate the retreat (and yes, retreat is a defeat). Maybe that’s why the Democrats’ Congress is polling at a whopping 3% when Americans are asked if they approve of Congress’ handling of the war
2) Dem Presidential candidates who have pledged to keep tens of thousands of forces in Iraq if elected (referring to Senators Clinton, Obama, and Edwards as they’re the only 3 that have a chance at the nomination let alone the Oval Office).
So, why is this war still W’s, neocons’, and Republicans when it was authorized, promoted, and supported by Democrats, continued by a Democratic Party controlled Congress, and there are pledges to continue it if a Dem is elected President?
Could it be that it’s easier to point fingers at the Republicans than it is to really examine the unusually bi-partisan origins, nature, and future of the war in Iraq?
OR, could it be that those who rant and rove about how the war is W’s, neocon’s, Republican etc are only acting like one-move chess players and only seeing the past or the here and now as opposed to thinking a mere 1 move ahead?
That one move…is when General Petraeus reports (as is already being reported by even the msm) that the surge is showing success;
that sending more troops to Iraq=less violence, and
that every time troop levels were dropped for political reason, violence has escalated.
BDS at KOS? Noooo, never. (rolleyes)
I recorded the Fox special on the Surge and Politics. It’s pretty good and I’ll upload some video if you’re interested.
I think the interview with Dems Dick Durbin and Bob Casey show that they are pulling for defeat in Iraq. That is not an exaggeration. They went to Iraq on recess to criticize the Iraqi Parliament’s recess and pose a counteroffensive against the success of the surge. They admitted the surge was working BUT…. we need to pull out anyway making all their valiant work a total waste of time and life.
I would trust Osama or Saddam before I would trust Turbin Durbin. At least they are a true to ‘something’ and Turbin is a traitor to everything.
Good and accurate analysis, Todd.
My take is that the Dems and wobbly Republicans are actually going to admit that the surge (more properly Operation Phantom Thunder) is “sort of working”. But what they’ll do is say that the Iraqis are blowing it because they can’t make political progress at the national level, therefore so sorry but we must leave ASAP the consequences be damned.
I think they’re wrong, because 1) only a military victory will lead to political progress, 2) there’s lots of progress, it’s just on a local level, and 3) most of our “benchmarks” etc are artificial and designed more to suit Washington’s priorities more than Baghdad’s, and 4) it takes any new government time to get it’s act together – look at the early days of our republic for pete’s sake.
But it is the case they’re going to try and make.
DemocRats are Traitors.
DAMMIT! Now there’s peace in Ramadi?!
Rove is brilliant!
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/011320.php#comments
USA TODAY reports:
“Major attacks decline in Iraq”
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070813/1a_lede13.art.htm?loc=interstitialskip
Hmmm, no comments from Sen. Harry “The War Is Already Lost” Reid; Not a whew or a congrats, or anything.
DNC silence regarding success speaks volumes.
The only thing they fear more than success in Iraq is success brought about by President Bush’s leadership.
Todd asks the Kossacks: “are you so blind with your Bush hating, that you will risk taking this country down just to ensure that Bush is a failure?”
You know the answer. And it goes further than that. They are not “risking” taking down the U.S. THAT is their plan.
Their intention is to so emascualte the U.S. military by forcing a defeat in Iraq that we will never again be able to gather the political will to lead the world, or use our military for anything other than meals on wheels.
These left wing kooks hate the military as much as they hate Bush and want to place all us “Little Eichmans” at the mercy of the U.N.
They either don’t realize, and probably don’t care, that such a plan would place us at the mercy of China or any other aggressive power. But in their minds, we deserve to be #2.
What must really gall these losers is that the Democrats, whom they falsely thought won the 2006 elections on the basis of pulling the U.S. out of Iraq NOW, will leave troops in Iraq for as long as it takes.
yep, I do know the answer, sad and revealing as it is…