How the Iraq war was ‘won’, according to the far-Left
As if America's soldiers and the Iraqi Democrats were never present or even existed...
“The Sunni Arab guerrillas have long had a strategy of attempting to provoke Sunni-Shiite civil war as a way of destabilizing the new Iraqi government and hastening a US departure, in hopes that they could then make a coup and come to power. It is a stupid strategy and has already failed. In 2006-2007, the guerrillas did provoke a civil war, and all that happened was that Shiites ethnically cleansed Sunni Arabs from mixed neighborhoods in the capital, expelling hundreds of thousands of them. One of the reasons that I doubt Tuesday’s atrocities will kick off a repeat civil war is that the Sunni Arabs are mostly gone from the formerly mixed neighborhoods, and Shiites would have to travel for a while to find a Sunni to kill. Moreover, the normal, sane Sunni Arabs know that they lost the last civil war badly, and are not eager for another whupping.”
According to the New York Times: “If he ran and took cover, Mr. Muhammad, 31, had a chance to save himself, to continue supporting his widowed mother, to help put his younger brother through college and to watch his three young daughters grow up. Instead, the Iraqi police officer — a Sunni Muslim — threw himself onto the bomber, blunting the explosion’s impact on the Shiite worshipers.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/world/middleeast/17hero.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
"Where we are today in Iraq has been paid for in blood and in the riches of the American taxpayer. Being at the low level of violence we see today is an accomplishment that the U.S. and Iraqi forces share," Army Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, deputy commander for U.S. Forces - Iraq operations, said in Iraq on Monday.
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/isf-enabling-progress-general-says
According to MNCI:Lt. Col. Michael Bentley no longer cringes while flying over Baghdad. In the “old days,” the city was dangerous. But now the Army pilot looks down from his Black Hawk helicopter to see the lights of amusement parks and kids at swimming pools. After seven years of war in Iraq, Bentley sees success.
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/aviators-exit-proud-of-us-iraqi-gains
The International Monetary Fund forecasts GDP growth in Iraq to be above 11.5% for 2011. Never forget that progressives called Iraq a lost cause. Remember Ted Kennedy's 'Second Vietnam' comment? Remember when Joe Biden; Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi were ready to throw the Iraqi democrats to the islamo-fascist dogs? For over two years, there has ONLY been GOOD news coming out of Iraq after 'The Surge' worked. It is time to start re-litigating every progressive narrative ever presented because progressives are wrong about almost everything. Never forget that far-left progressives were wrong to use American soldiers and the Iraq war as a domestic political message in 2006. Progressivism is corrupt. Iraq is political war and political war is media war. Progressives and the far-left media chose the other side, the loosing side, the wrong side, during the Iraq war. Pelosi and Reid would not fight for freedom. George Bush's 'Surge' worked. Progressives maliciously used American soldiers fighting in Iraq as a political message in the 2006 election cycle. These totalitarian progressives had a malignant and malicious stake in the outcome the Iraq war. The Iraqi democrats were fighting to create freedom and progressives in America wanted helicopters on the U.S. Embassy roof and a second 'far-left killing fields' this time not in Cambodia but in Baghdad. According to the Wall Street Journal: “Violence in Iraq is now mostly a criminal matter. Over the past two years, the country has suffered fewer than 40% of the deaths by violence that Mexico has. Iraqi fatalities are now well below the levels seen during the quiet months immediately following the U.S invasion in 2003. A visit to Baghdad or Basra today isn't intimidating for businessmen accustomed to Lagos or Rio de Janeiro. Iraq, the former bully-boy of the Arab neighborhood, has become its only functional democracy. What may be the world's richest resource economy, once the closed shop of a murderous clique, is today wide open for business.”
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