Apr 27 2007

Senator Surrender – Check Out Anbar

Published by at 7:46 am under All General Discussions,Iraq

Senator Surrender and Speaker Surrender need to attend those briefings on Iraq and accept the fact the people in Iraq know more about what is going on in Iraq than their army of sicophant DC and NY political consultants armed with poll results. Anbar is the model for success in Iraq Senator and Speaker – and it is a solid model:

A year ago, Iraq’s Anbar was the most dangerous province for U.S. troops. Al Qaeda had dug in across the vast desert region. Iraqis were afraid to leave their homes in the local capital Ramadi, where insurgents held sway.

The situation (in Anbar) was unbearable before, people were tortured, shot dead, bodies littered the streets. We couldn’t even leave our homes to bury the dead,” Abu Risha told Reuters from Ramadi by a crackly satellite phone.
Abu Risha’s initiative — partly in response to Sunni Islamist al Qaeda’s indiscriminate killing of civilians in Anbar — has revived 15 large police stations that now come under the control of the provincial police chief.

And for the first time in three years, U.S. military deaths in the insurgent stronghold stretching across western Iraq number fewer than in Baghdad, where a new security crackdown began in February with additional troops.

This week police arrested 30 insurgents, including members of al Qaeda, and seized three cars rigged with bombs near Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

“The number of attacks and incidents across the entire province has dropped significantly,” said Brigadier-General Mark Gurganus, the U.S. Marine commander in charge of ground operations in Anbar, without giving details.

The changes have been noticeable in Ramadi.
More people are shopping at outdoor markets. Students are returning to schools.
Patrols in blue-and-white police vehicles with machine guns mounted on the top rumble along Ramadi’s streets.
Police said when they first started patrolling the streets, residents threw flowers at them.
“God protect you. God save you,” a woman dressed in a black abaya yelled at a passing patrol last week. A young boy signalled the ‘v’ sign for victory at the patrol.

The people of Iraq should pray God removes the political, hate-filled blinders from the Democrat Congress. If Democrats want success and less killing of our soldiers and Iraqis there is a working example in Iraq. And it doesn’t require surrendering to Bin Laden…the man who killed 3000 Americans on 9-11.

13 responses so far

13 Responses to “Senator Surrender – Check Out Anbar”

  1. kathie says:

    Does it seen really arrogant to anyone that the Dems talk about the Iraqi’s as if they were their teenage children?

  2. Soothsayer says:

    Had you been around for Vietnam or Watergate, perhaps you would have learned to question the representations of your government. Another viewpoint seems to disagree with your rosy scenario:

    WASHINGTON (IPS) – The Bush administration and proponents of the U.S. troop surge in Iraq have claimed that the increased military presence in Baghdad and al-Anbar province has reduced sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and lowered civilian casualties. But not all of the numbers are being included.

    It has emerged that the Bush administration does not count car bombing victims among Iraq’s civilian casualties and the Iraqi government is withholding from the United Nations its statistics on Iraqi casualties. The decision not to publicize the figures on civilian casualties – considered by many to be a gauge of the situation in Iraq, and al-Anbar province in particular – is an important omission since the statistics would be a means of measuring the success of the troop surge.

    General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, has stated that the troop surge cut the number of sectarian killings by one-third since January and President Bush has gone so far as to call the surge a success if one doesn’t count suicide or car bombings.

    “If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings, we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory,” Bush said on Tuesday.

    However, the report by the UN mission in Iraq provides an analysis of human rights concerns from January through March. It concludes that the Iraqi government is up against “immense security challenges in the face of growing violence and armed opposition to its authority and the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis.”

    Noticeably lacking from the report are the civilian casualty statistics which, according to the previous report from the UN, recorded 34,452 Iraqi civilian casualties in 2006.

    The report said the Iraqi government had “decided against providing the data, although no substantive explanation or justification was provided.”

    The decision not to publicize the figures on civilian casualties – considered by many to be a gauge of the situation in Iraq, and al-Anbar province in particular – is an important omission since the statistics would be a means of measuring the success of the troop surge.

  3. lurker9876 says:

    Boy, you really believe in the mainstream media that is heavily funded by Soros. And you sure let it brainwash you entirely.

  4. scaulen says:

    SS:
    Can you provide the source for that please? I’m having trouble finding it.

  5. AJStrata says:

    Soothie,

    Of course I was around for the Vietnam debacle! You keep forgetting I am a native of NoVA because my grandfather was Dem Congressman. We know and knew lots and lots of pols over the years. First hand knowledge is always superior to your liberal propaganda fed fantasies!

  6. jimbo1 says:

    AJ……. a senior member of Al Qaeda has been CAPTURED his name is Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi….link here….BTW this one is HUGE. …note no word on where he was caught….http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070427/pl_afp/usattacksqaeda

  7. scaulen says:

    SS:
    Thanks for the link.

  8. scaulen says:

    “Electronic Iraq (eIraq) — found at electronicIraq.net — is a supplementary news portal from the people who brought you the Electronic Intifada (founded 2001) and veteran antiwar campaigners Voices in the Wilderness (founded 1996).”

    OK so who is Electronic Intifada?
    “The Electronic Intifada (EI), found at electronicIntifada.net, publishes news, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective. EI is the leading Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media.”

    “Palestinian perspective” and written by outspoken critics of US foreign policy dating back to the 1980’s.

    Now who started EI? Well that would be Voices in the Wilderness, founded 1996 they were Saddams human shields that we all read so much about. They sided with a dictator who with held humanitarian aide from his people while building multi million dollar palaces.

    OK so after follwing that trail quickly and having to decide which story to believe, I’d have to side with my Government, Xin Loi.

  9. Retired Spook says:

    AJ……. a senior member of Al Qaeda has been CAPTURED his name is Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi

    Jimbo, ya think we’d be rounding up guys like this with startling regularlity if a Dem were in the White House?

  10. ivehadit says:

    Look, ss apparently thinks Saddam should be sitting up in Heaven next to his Higher Power as a noble human since the evil Bush and Cheney took him out.

    So do we care one tiny bit what the ss has to say? Not I. Don’t read the posts no mo.

    No, I just keep remembering those 11 million purple fingers who risked their lives…just to vote.

    And I tell you this, all the defeatists- take a hike. We will not let you succeed. The dems have once again, misread the polls…and the true feelings of winners called Americans.

  11. MerlinOS2 says:

    Scaulen

    Nice way to fish in the utter fool that Sooth is, since he only provides cut and paste bull.

    Have looked at his link and it explains a whole lot.

    Truthers would love to have this level of dedication.

    Google truther names, go to their associated websites.

    Read their “logic” if you are bored with nothing better to do.

    BTW, I didn’t need the link, all I had to do was play with google and cut and paste parts of his quotes over time and zeroed in on the source.

    Hell I have seen this same person around the net blogsphere and he/she always uses a name like they are the brightest bulb in the room, but only cuts and pastes with never an original thought or any substantial analysis.

    A pattern exists where they always insult the host of whatever site they are on, like it will give more weight to their cut and paste.

    Totally pathetic, to say the least.

  12. scaulen says:

    What can I say Merlin I like playing with Trolls. At least it is constitantly hard left, I just would like to know why. Does it think this way, or is it being paid to post this way? Almost makes me think it’s an AI programmed to be rabid left.