Only a truly brain dead buffoon can keep chanting the “Surge has failed”; even the Messiah and that mouth-breathing, traitorous old fool Murtha can see it.
But apparently not Arianna Huffington:
John McCain, aided and abetted by his loving protectors in the media, is running a victory lap on Iraq. To hear them tell it, the surge has “worked” — indeed, it has been a huge success — and this, like a last second Hail Mary pass, has vindicated the entire disastrous Iraq misadventure.
But here we are, 18 months later, and McCain and the GOP are being allowed to change the goal. And, surprise, surprise, the retroactive goal they’ve chosen is remarkably similar to the current situation in Iraq: violence is down while the “progress in other critical areas” is sorely lagging.
No surprise then that, according to the Times, experts think real reconciliation in Iraq could take decades.
And this is the good news out of Iraq.
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Of course, the “imminent threat” turned out to be non-existent, and our presence in Iraq has strengthened the hand of every bad actor in the region: al Qaeda is safe and adding recruits, Hamas has come to power in Palestine, Hezbollah has reasserted itself in Lebanon, and Iran has become the strongest player in Iraq. Meanwhile, the reduction in casualties in Iraq is starting to be offset by increased casualties in Afghanistan .. So, tell me again: how is the surge working?
I know it’s difficult to understand Ms. Huffington’s position so let me shine a bit of light on it for you. After all we are all about helping our readers understand some the radically idiotic statements from the left.
Often times it is nothing more complicated than a grand lie and other times it is the overt omission of facts (See Jonn’s earlier post today about timelines). This one gets a bit trickier in that we have to invoke the time-space continuum to explain it.
Not too long ago American Progress (an uber-leftist website) reported:
Total Benchmarks: 3 of 18 Accomplished
On the one year anniversary of President Bush’s State of the Union address justifying his “New Way Forward” in Iraq, it is clear that the surge has failed to meet its objectives. One year ago, the president pledged that “America will hold the Iraqi government to the benchmarks it has announced.” Despite the fact that the Iraqi government has only met three of the 18 benchmarks laid out last year, an end to U.S. military and financial commitment is nowhere in sight.
Okay, now for the time warp problem. That was written on January 24, 2008. Our crack staff of researchers at This Ain’t Hell have determined that this is probably the exact date that Ms. Huffington forced her head up her ass. It is also fairly clear that it is still there.
MSNBC (hardly a staunch mouthpiece of the Bush administration) this week reported:
The White House sees the progress in a particularly positive light, declaring in a new assessment to Congress that Iraq’s efforts on 15 of 18 benchmarks are “satisfactory” — almost twice what it determined to be the case a year ago.
As for the rest of her totally empty platitudes, let’s look a little deeper. The only source she cites in the entire article is the New York Times which is either lazy, incompetent blogging or simply regurgitating the leftist spin of the NYT.
Al Qaeda is not safe; in fact they are being killed on a scale that they can not sustain.
Al Qaeda’s recruiting is in the tank. They are forced to use women and the mentally impaired.
Hamas and Hezbollah would be non-existent were it not for the leftists at the UN and in the US congress. Why doesn’t some Arab country welcome the Palestinians? Because they do not want them and have expelled them repeatedly for years.
The military death toll is in fact higher in Afghanistan. It’s closely reaching levels of New Orleans or Detroit to a level that reached 46 which includes all coalition forces, not just Americans (a little distinction that the NYT does not mention). While 46 is a tragedy, there is no mention of the hundreds of terrorists killed in the same period.
Note to Democrats; next time you decide to send me links from a mouthpiece make sure her head has been extracted from her ass.
