May 21 2008
Cleansing Mosul Of al-Qaeda
al-Qaeda, like all Islamo Fascist groups, exist by the jackboot and violence. Â In Iraq al-Qaeda’s last bastion in Mosul is being purged by Iraqi and US forces, and the effort is producing stunning results:
Major-General Mark Hertling, the commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq, said U.S. and Iraqi troops had inflicted serious damage on al Qaeda in the northern city of Mosul, regarded by the U.S. military as the group’s last major urban stronghold.
They had arrested 1,200 people, many of them self-proclaimed senior or mid-level leaders of al Qaeda or other Sunni insurgent groups, he said. Daily attacks in Mosul had fallen from an average of 40 to about six, he said.
For our math-challenged liberal friends that is a stunning 85% reduction in daily violence in Mosul. Â When will the left realize that when the US and Iraq government liberate a Muslim population being brutally oppressed by any Islamo Fascist group there is an enormous positive result? Â If these numbers hold the May indicators for violence in Iraq are going to plummet as Mosul is freed of al-Qaeda thugs and the Mahdi Army thugs are routed from Sadr City and Basra (and elsewhere as well).
There is a change in the wind coming to Iraq, thanks to the determination of President Bush, our military forces and the Iraqi government and security forces. Â And that change will echo for months.
Notice how you are not hearing much about this?
OK, I just don’t get it.
Our President is winning 2 wars, killing al Qaeda, exposing the brutality of islamists to their own people and the world, putting freedom in the minds and heart of the middle east.
Our President kept this economy afloat after 911. Over a trillion dollars lost in hours and days after the attack.
Our president helped elders afford medication so they wouldn’t have to eat dog food.
We have survived the foolishness of mortgages.
Our President has lowered taxes for all of us.
Our President has tried to hold educators responsible for the children they should educate.
Our President established the Millennium Account helping millions in Africa.
I’m sure others could add more.
AND HE IS THE WORST PRESIDENT…..GIVE ME A BREAK. WHAT DOES MSM WANT FROM A MAN?
Kathie, you’re so right.
The irony is that the thing that the left and its media cohorts have most reviled him for, the Iraq War, may in the end become the brightest star in his legacy galaxy.
What’s astounding is that this war is over, and no one seems to notice. The entrance of the Iraqi Army to Sadr City is the rough equivalent to the capture of Berlin by the Red Army in 1945. There are no more strongholds for any of the “insurgent” forces to fall back to, save Mosul. And as the quoted article points out, Mosul is being cleansed as we speak.
Why it is being cleansed now is an excellent example of why this war is over. Mosul got dangerous because neither the Americans nor the Iraqi govm’t had ever placed more than a token force there – I believe I saw that prior to the surge, the US had 600 troops there tasked with watching over 2.6 million people, and the Iraqi’s had no local loyal units at all. No wonder Al Qaeda could become entrenched, and no wonder the locals decided they had to go along since nobody was going to help them resist.
But all that has now changed, and it’s a textbook example of how success leads to success. The Awakening in Anbar led to the cessation of hostilities there and freed up thousands of US troops to do other things. Maliki’s success in Basra has pacified the southern half of the country and allowed thousands of Iraqi troops to move on. The taking of Sadr City has now ended the attacks on the green zone and ended the threat of all out fighting in Baghdad. And now there are more than enough Iraqi and American troops to take and control Mosul, which is the terminus of the last active Al Qaeda supply line reaching into Iraq from Syria. Once Mosul is gone, the supply line breaks down, and there is no longer any conduit for foreign fighters to sneak into Iraq unnoticed – Al Qaeda in Iraq will be finished. The Mahdi Army is already finished. All of the other major militias, like the Badr Brigades, have already disarmed and/or joined the Iraqi Government.
Except for a few isolated AQ remnants and the Iranian Special Groups (who have now lost their base of operations) there is nobody left to fight. Which is why I say with confidence – this war is over. There’s about 30 days of cleanup left to do in Mosul, and there will always be some criminal activity here and there, but that’s it.
We’ve won – completely.
I wonder how the Obamaniacs would respond if Bush declared that things had stabilized enough, say the morning of Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver, for a major draw down in US forces.
Kathie, we went through this same leftist hyper-ventilating during Reagan’s administration. I’m sure history will remember George Bush much more favorably as well. Fortunately, the Huffpos and Kossacks won’t be writing the history about this administration or these times.
The liberal mouthpeace media, the Clintonestas in State Dept. and inept commanders like Sanchez must never let the real truth of W’s greatness to get out lest it expose their ineptness and complicity.
Fortunately there is an alternative media now and hopefully the younger generations will seek knowledge here instead of from liberal profs and the MSM.
God Bless George W. Bush a mighty Commander In Chief and guardian of Freedom Lovers around the world.
I would have to search to find it again, but I saw a quick blurb somewhere today that terrorist incidents worldwide are down 60% or something like that in the latest stats.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/terrorist-attacks-decline-40-during.html
Correction attacks worldwide down 40%
A study released on Wednesday reports a decline in fatal attacks of terrorism worldwide and says U.S. think-tank data showing sharp increases were distorted due to the inclusion of killings in Iraq.
“Even if the Iraq ‘terrorism’ data are included, there has still been a substantial decline in the global terrorism toll,” said the 2007 Human Security Brief, an annual report funded by the governments of Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and Britain.
For example, global terrorism fatalities declined by 40 percent between July and September 2007, driven by a 55 percent decline in the “terrorism” death toll in Iraq after the so-called surge of new U.S. troops and a cease-fire by the Shi’ite militant Mehdi Army, the brief said.
Study: Decline in acts of terrorism worldwide:
Iraq figures distort terrorism statistics: study
Wed May 21, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A study released on Wednesday reports a decline in fatal attacks of terrorism worldwide and says U.S. think-tank data showing sharp increases were distorted due to the inclusion of killings in Iraq.
“Even if the Iraq ‘terrorism’ data are included, there has still been a substantial decline in the global terrorism toll,” said the 2007 Human Security Brief, an annual report funded by the governments of Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and Britain.
For example, global terrorism fatalities declined by 40 percent between July and September 2007, driven by a 55 percent decline in the “terrorism” death toll in Iraq after the so-called surge of new U.S. troops and a cease-fire by the Shi’ite militant Mehdi Army, the brief said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2139567720080521?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsevening&sp=true
The End of an Act Approaches in Iraq
excerpt:
The US military has now defeated Saddam’s Iraqi military, defeated Rumsfeld’s “dead enders”, won over the Sunni tribes, reversed the course of a civil war, and all signs are pointing towards the defeat of Al Qaeda. With the government process evolving albeit slowly, including the slow consolidation of power between the factions, there remains one final act in Iraq for the “military” phase of the Iraq campaign, and it appears to be picking up momentum by gathering all the attention.
The top uniformed U.S. military officer told Congress Tuesday that Iran is directly jeopardizing any potential for peace in Iraq, prompting fresh calls from senators that the U.S. pursue diplomatic talks with Tehran.
Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that “irresponsible actions†by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard “directly jeopardize†peace in Iraq.
“Restraint in our response does not signal lack of resolve or capability to defend ourselves against threats,†Mullen told the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee.
When Gates discusses Iran, he continues to highlight the need for the US to build leverage for diplomatic action on Iran. We believe this will becomes the new strategy for CENTCOM as Army Gen. David Petraeus becomes CENTCOM Commander. Hearings for General Petraeus’s appointment takes place today in the Senate. There is some irony that there will be a political sideshow, because as General Petraeus has become the savior of the nations military actions in Iraq, he is being tapped again, this time to tackle the strategy for Iran.
http://informationdissemination.blogspot.com/2008/05/end-of-act-approaches-in-iraq.html
Bush, McCain, and every other Republican who had the guts to see this through should take credit and make it crystal clear to the American people what has happened long before Obama has any chance to take office and claim “victory” as his.
If McCain defeats Obama……it can wait until we have dealt with Iran.
A Shiite Cleric’s Push for Reconciliation in Iraq
http://amyproctor.squarespace.com/blog/2008/5/21/a-shiite-clerics-push-for-reconciliation-in-iraq.html
Here’s the other terror report:
B.C. researchers find decline in global terrorism, question previous data
VANCOUVER — A group of researchers from Simon Fraser University says global terrorism is on the decline, despite previous data and public perceptions that suggest otherwise.
The university’s Human Security Report Project says fatalities from terrorist attacks around the world have, in fact, decreased by 40 per cent since 2001.
Researcher Andrew Mack says previous data showing increases in terrorism have included civilian deaths in Iraq.
But he says such deaths in civil wars have traditionally been treated as war crimes, not terrorism, and it makes sense to remove them from the data entirely.
Mack says even in Iraq recently there has been a sharp decline in attacks after several years of increased violence.
He says part of the reason is that global support for Islamic terrorist groups, such as al-Qaida has declined.
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJciaxCBODpiOZKXuLS73Q0gpaBA