How The Associated Press Reports On Victory: “US military to abandon Iraqi cities”
This has to be the most absurd Iraq headline since the McClatchy news service reporting the drop in violence in Iraq…by focusing on out-of-work grave diggers.
The headline and opening paragraphs of the article suggest that we’re abandoning Iraqis and fleeing with our tails between our legs (which you’d think the liberals would like since that’s what they’ve been crowing about since John Kerry decided to go anti-war in 2004 and most of them flip-flopped on their war votes). But the truth is that this is part of a draw down that is part of General Petraeus’ overall goals in Iraq:
The U.S. is on track to complete its shift out of all Iraqi cities by June 2009. That is one of the milestones in a political-military campaign plan devised in 2007 by Gen. David Petraeus, when he was the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and his political partner in Baghdad, Ambassador Ryan Crocker. The goal also is in a preliminary security pact with the Iraqi government on the future U.S. military presence.
What’s happening here is victory in Iraq. The media is trying to spin it into defeat.
All the better to keep liberal politicians (up to and including the recently-anointed-as-President-elect Barack Obama) from looking like the utter fools they’ve been all along on Iraq.
