Uh oh! What will the cry from the left be now?
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said that he will recommend further troop reductions in Iraq by fall.
“My sense is that I will be able to make a recommendation at that time for some further reductions,” Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday.
And who would of thought aggressively attacking an enemy actually works:
The Al Qaeda terror group in Iraq appears to be at its weakest state since it gained an initial foothold in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion five years ago, the acting commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Wednesday in an Associated Press interview.
Army Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, who assumed interim command of U.S. Central Command on March 28, acknowledged that Al Qaeda remains a relentless foe and has not disappeared as a serious threat to stability. But he said an accelerated U.S. and Iraq campaign to pressure Al Qaeda has paid big dividends.
“Our forces and the Iraqi forces have certainly disrupted Al Qaeda, probably to a level that we haven’t seen at any time in my experience,” said Dempsey, who served in Iraq in the initial stages as a division commander and later as head of the military organization in charge of training Iraqi security forces.
Meanwhile Michael Yon told a newscast yesterday that the progress in Iraq unbelievable: (via Hot Air)
Yon – The progress is unbelievable. I mean each of the five months this year, for instance, we’ve seen lower casualty counts then we saw last year. We’ve also seen that the moral fiber of the American soldier and the tenacity of the American soldier in setting the tone is what has really changed the situation in Iraq.
~~~Reporter – Why aren’t we hearing all this good news in Iraq?
Yon – Well, thats a good question. I mean I’m reporting it, the good news and the bad of course. I was the first to report the civil war and I believe the first to report that it ended. We just don’t see much….you know good news is no news. That’s simply the way it is. We’ve seen so much progress in Iraq there just not as many bombs as there used to be there is not as much fighting so there is just not as much reporting.
Yon also makes fun of the fact that Newsweek called Sadr the most feared man in Iraq. Saying “they might be exaggerating a bit” with a smile on his face.
But wait for it. The Democrats and The Messiah will take credit for all this success because the Iraqi’s can feel the hope emanating from Obama’s fingertips.
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