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Tuesday, March 27, 2007


Surge That Democrats Don’t Support And Preemptively Say Is Unsuccessful Isolates Al Qaeda

This is progress, people.  Progress.

BAGHDAD — Insurgent leaders and Sunni Arab politicians say divisions between insurgent groups and Al Qaeda in Iraq have widened and have led to combat in some areas of the country, a schism that U.S. officials hope to exploit.

The Sunni Arab insurgent leaders said they disagreed with the leadership of Al Qaeda in Iraq over tactics, including attacks on civilians, as well as over command of the movement.

U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, on his last day in Iraq, said Monday that American officials were actively pursuing negotiations with the Sunni factions in an effort to further isolate Al Qaeda.

“Iraqis are uniting against Al Qaeda,” Khalilzad said. “Coalition commanders have been able to engage some insurgents to explore ways to collaborate in fighting the terrorists.”

Meanwhile Democrats called Iraq a “hopeless failure,” but decided to put off ending it for a year so they could continue to tack billions of dollars of pork spending to the must-pass war appropriations bills.

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Amazing what force will do.  Like those punks in school.  All mouth and no action when faced with real authority.


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Chief RZ on March 27, 2007 at 06:16 pm

I heard Al Queda bugged out of Baghdad before the surge, smarmy little cowards. So did Al Sadr!

In every great war of this country there have been times when the military plans worked quite badly, sometimes with incredible loss of live, and adjustments had to be made, often late in the game; but success followed our flag because we were, as a people absolutely committed to victory.

It is early, but it appears we may have found the military leaders and planning to turn this around i Iraq, and the Democrats cannot allow that to happen - they simply cannot allow us to win if they want to remain in power, a major American defeat in battle is aboslutely essential to the Democrat Party future.


In keeping silent about evil, in burying it deep within us, so that it appears nowhere on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago

Neiman on March 27, 2007 at 06:29 pm
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We can hope that the current tactics will allow the Iraqis time and encouragement to get their stuff together.  I think the day will come when the duly elected Iraqi government will control the country.  It will be interesting to see what the MSM will report when the Iraqi Gov’t shoots terrorists and puts them on display.  MSM will be horrified, of course.

halatbis on March 27, 2007 at 08:36 pm
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I don’t doubt it Hal.  They will be morally outraged at how terribly the Iraqi government is treating the terrorists.

And then Bush will be blamed for putting those monsters in power.


The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Rob on March 27, 2007 at 09:34 pm

Neiman nails it, and I have known for quite some time, that the future of the present Dem Party is absolutely dependent on making this President a failure.  They have done absolutely nothing but run against him since 2000, and now they have no place else to go.  If we win in Iraq, if they can’t talk the economy into failure, they lose, big time, in ‘08, and possibly years afterward.  Their success is our nation’s failure.  They have chosen this path, and now face the consequences of that choice.  Why else would they be attempting a virtual coup by trying to dismantle this administration one person at a time? This is the act of desperate, cornered animals.  The veneer of the Dem Party being a party of the US has worn off.  They stand revealed for what they are: the Party of Eurosocialism.  They want to turn us into part of the EU.


If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

robert108 on March 27, 2007 at 10:06 pm
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Why else would they be attempting a virtual coup by trying to dismantle this administration one person at a time?

R108,  I’m in complete agreement with you there.  The desperation and lows to which the democratics are willing to stoop simply astound.

HG on March 27, 2007 at 11:00 pm

Year 5 of progress

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They’re Muslims and we’re not.

WOOF on March 28, 2007 at 06:01 am
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“They’re Muslims and we’re not.”

I don’t know, WOOF, I’d call that success on our side.  Seeing as how many groups over there have the stated goal of bringing us into submission.

TeacherDave on March 28, 2007 at 07:10 am

I just read that Al Qaeda killed a Sunni leader today. There’s a serious rift developing and this type of thing will most likely become a blood feud.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.


The future ain’t what it used to be…..

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Pilgrim on March 28, 2007 at 08:52 am

They’re Muslims and we’re not.

Thank God!


“Capitalism is optimism monetized.”

Bat One on March 28, 2007 at 10:22 am

  They’re Muslims and we’re not.

Thank God!

Which is just what they say and why they will never accept American troops occupying their land.

WOOF on March 28, 2007 at 11:54 am

They’re Muslims and we’re not.

Can you imagine the leftie reaction to the statement: We’re Christians, and they’re not.”?  Exploding heads all around.  More leftie hypocrisy.  As if their religion excuses their savagery.


If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

robert108 on March 28, 2007 at 11:58 am

We’re Christians, and they’re not.”

Don’t we have an idiot General who said just that?
They may have promoted him?

WOOF on March 28, 2007 at 12:07 pm

Woof: But you’re not an idiot for saying that “They’re Muslims, and we’re not.”?  Which is it?  Otherwise, you’re just another leftie hypocrite.


If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

robert108 on March 28, 2007 at 12:17 pm

They’re Muslims and we’re not.

Thank God!

Which is just what they say and why they will never accept American troops occupying their land.

WOOF,

Continuing your ignorance of the theological irony for the moment longer, you are wrong.  “Thank God!” is not what they say at all.

Unfortunately, their religion commands that they DO something about the fact that they are Muslim and we are not.  The islamization of the infidel world has been a fact of life since the Prophet first took a 9 year old bride and decided that spreading his view of how things ought to be was a good idea.


“Capitalism is optimism monetized.”

Bat One on March 28, 2007 at 12:33 pm

I have known for quite some time, that the future of the present Dem Party is absolutely dependent on making this President a failure… Why else would they be attempting a virtual coup by trying to dismantle this administration one person at a time?

I disagree with making the President a failure being their primary need or motive.  It is a secondary motive, but ultimately the Dems real problem is that they have had no unifying message.  They need the Iraq War to continue worse than the Republicans because if they end it today, they cannot campaign against it in 2008.  They are so splintered that unless they can unite their black pandering faction (Jackson, Sharpton), the environut faction (Gore), the big labor folks, the Christian and religion hating folks, the socialists, the Marxists, the Feminists, the academics, and ultimately the wealthy ruling subclass that controls the party (Kerry, Kennedy, Edwards, Dean, Soros, etc.) they will get destroyed in the 2008 elections and give back their short term gains.  All of these groups have different ideologies and most of them run contrary to each other.  How can Environmentalists want to shut down industry that in effect means shutting down jobs that would go to union bosses and union members?  And so on.  Constant contradictions. 

What this war has been is a unifying message.  That message may be “Make Love Not War” or “Bush is a Nazi” or whatever else, but it unites all the moonbats, regardless of which moonbat faction they belong to.  But hating Bush and the Iraq War have a limited shelf life as a political ideology and so the left is trying to extend this one by continuing the funding until they can invent another one that the entire party can get behind and/or regain their power, hence the huge push to prop Gore and his environmental crusade up as their new Gospel. 

Getting us out of Iraq does absolutely nothing for the long term viability of Liberalism and the Democratic Party.  They are selling their souls for a short term gain of getting back in power, and the only way they did it in ‘06 was through a massive confluence of things like corruption scandals and voter resentment during an midterm election.  They can’t allow the surge to work because they don’t have a backup strategy to unite their party and their other messages of higher taxes, more regulation, etc., don’t resonate.  But they need the war to continue.

What they want is the war to continue, to grandstand about how they want to stop it but are powerless until 2009 when a new President is inaugurated, and to use the existence of the war as motivation to solicit funds from their donors.  They cannot do that without the spectre of the war continuing without end.  If the war ended today, the Democrats would stand to lose the most because then the debate turns right back to policies other than Iraq and then their moonbat base stops writing checks.

Justin B. on March 28, 2007 at 12:53 pm

JustinB: Not a bad analysis, but consider that if they can produce defeat in Iraq, they have their Golden Fleece.  They can use that defeat to not only attempt to impeach the President, but to use as a club against all Republicans, since our “strength on National Defense” will no longer be relevant.
I agree about the long term argument, but am convinced that the Dems have only short term goals; to win the next election.  They really don’t think any farther ahead than that, like Clinton.
As far as their labor policy is concerned, if they have 10-20 million illegals who will always vote for them, they don’t need the present union members at all.  They win the next election, give blanket amnesty, keep the borders open, and they are set for life, in their vision.
I think the fringies will always vote Dem, no matter what.  They are certainly not going to vote Republican!  Of course, if the Dems can Euroize us with multiple Parties and a quasi-Parliamentary form of govt(no Electoral College, like Hillary wants), they will no longer have to worry about the segment of the population that still wants individual independence and freedom.  They will drown us in a sea of illegals, high taxes and red ink.


If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

robert108 on March 28, 2007 at 01:11 pm
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  Their success is our nation’s failure.  They have chosen this path, and now face the consequences of that choice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c

Watch it, interesting take on why the left seeks to find the wrong answer at all costs.

Taltos on March 28, 2007 at 02:18 pm
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