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July 06, 2008 Iraqi Army Mopping up al-Qaeda in MosulIn a joint US-Iraqi operation that began in May in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul directed at al-Qaeda's last redoubt, the Times OnLine reports that the Iraqis have achieved a spectacular success and is rolling up al-Qaeda fighters while reducing the violence in that city by an astonishing 80%:
Al-Qeada has been reduced to ineffectual hit and run attacks that continue to take a toll on police and army units but which have been dramatically reduced in number and effectiveness. Al-Qeada nearly gone in the north and Mookie al-Sadr's Mahdi Militia a shadow of its former self in the south - not a bad couple of month's work for the "incompetent" Iraqi army and their equally incompetent prime minister Maliki. There is not peace yet in Iraq, not by any means. But slowly and with the confidence and consistency of inevitability, the Iraqi army's hard work is finally paying off. One can see a day in the not too distant future where the Iraqi government will have complete control over the security of their own country. This is an incredible feat considering where this country was just a little over a year ago. Reconciliation is now the major political goal of the government. How they handle the very touchy and complex issues surrounding it will largely determine the pace of our own withdrawal from Iraq. In the meantime, a huge shout out to our own boys and the Iraqi soldiers is due. You should read the entire piece to get a sense of the great progress already made. |
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What? Nancy Pelosi said that Al Qeada is not in Iraq!
Posted by: RR | July 6, 2008 12:07 PM
Incredible news and real vindication for the NeoCon vision of planting the seeds of democracy and self-rule in the Middle East.
That being said - I predict this will bounce off the Left's mental force field like a BB hitting the side of a battleship.
No amount of facts can convince them they're wrong. Bruce Bawer just wrote a great piece called "The Times It Ain't a Chanigin'" that chronicles how the NY Times has consistently misrepresented or totally ignored everything from the Holocaust and Stalin's self-inflicted famine to contemporary threats like radical Islam.
The NPR crowd has "moved beyond" war and the whole thing - victory and all - is really just a big embarassment.
Pathetic - But utterly predictable.
Posted by: David Bueche | July 6, 2008 04:46 PM
And Harry Reid told us the war...is lost. Was he lying?
Posted by: robert108 | July 6, 2008 07:49 PM
No, Harry Reid was not lying. You just misunderstood what team he was on.
Posted by: Klewis | July 7, 2008 12:25 AM
It's amazing how things can change in a year. From a bloody stalemate with al Quaida a year ago in Iraq to one of the more spectacular victories the world has ever seen in a counterterrorism effort. In the eyes of everyone except those too full of hate to matter, President Bush will be remembered as CIC over two very successful, hardfought warfronts that turned the corner against the use of terror as a weapon, in addition to beginning the eventual full democratization of the middle east.
Posted by: Mojo | July 7, 2008 08:40 AM