The news from Iraq is following a pattern that should be no surprise to those watching events as Iraq comes out of its dark dance with al-Qaeda. Ever since the Muslim street in Iraq determined al-Qaeda was the real enemy the country has fought its way towards a brighter future. And along this [...]

al-Qaeda can light of a few bombs and target a few people, but they cannot claim any territory of their own in Iraq right now. Their atrocities against the Iraqi Muslims have made them the enemy and those fighting them the Islamic heroes and martyrs for the cause of Islam. They have been [...]

The ghoulish SurrenderMedia is all atwitter with the recent spate of violence by al-Qaeda and its few remaining sympathizers. al-Qaeda is going for one last bloody effort to remain relevant and get its blood soaked results on the nightly news. And it will kill and maim people - mostly Muslims now. Which [...]

The last pocket of al-Qaeda fighters is being pressured in areas of the Northern Province of Diyala. Iraqi and Coalition forces have purged al-Qaeda from around Baghdad, from Anbar Province, from the capital city of Diyala (Baquba), herding them towards the Northern Iraqi border with Iran. As we herd them we decimate their [...]

The the term “scourge of humanity” is becoming highly applicable to al-Qaeda. They have been pushed on their way out of Iraq for months now and their last remnants are in now grasping to hang on in Northern Iraq. They are doing their usual bloodthirsty thing and making it easier and easier for [...]

Lots and lots of progress still pouring out of Iraq. First up is news of a Sunni-Kurd power sharing deal in the North of Iraq - ironically the last bastion of major al-Qaeda activity:
Sunni Arabs ended a yearlong political boycott Tuesday in Kirkuk — the hub of Iraq’s northern oil fields — under a [...]

I have to admit, even I hesitate at times to say Iraq is a victory - but it is. Yes, there is an ever dwindling chance al-Qaeda will attack their fellow Muslims in Iraq and inflict more atrocities on them. But it would be their last act as part of Islam, because they [...]

As I said earlier today, the news from Iraq for the next few months will follow two basic themes. One will be those of continued signs of success and victory for our side. And the other will be the exposure of the atrocities the al-Qaeda Islamo Fascists inflicted on their fellow Muslims:
Remains of [...]

Nancy Pelosi came one step closer to her nightmare fantasy of ‘reversing’ what has happened in Iraq last night with a wimpy vote on a bill with only sufficient funds for an immediate retreat:
The House tonight passed a $50 billion Iraq funding bill that sets a “goal” of having all U.S. forces out of the [...]

In the continuing joke of denial by the liberal left that things are turning around in Iraq we now have a new spin: it is too late for success to be recognized, even if it is happening. This comes from one of those liberals who cannot emotionally face the fact that (a) Iraq [...]

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The fighting in Iraq is definitely entering a much different phase than the one Iraq and America faced around this same time last year. Last year al-Qaeda was on the rise and ramping up a month’s long period of atrocities, carnage and massacres against Iraqi Muslims. It was a deliberate PR [...]

As I predicted, the stories of success in Iraq cannot be ignored or dismissed. As the progress on the ground mounts, so do the stories of success mount. And so we find more and more examples that Bush was right and the liberals were terribly, horribly wrong. From The Guardian in the [...]

Been saying it almost all year: as goes Diyala so goes Iraq. The reason being Diyala is a melting pot of the major Iraqi religous sects. It was one of the last areas to feel the effects of The Surge, so it will trail by months the progress seen in Anbar Province, and [...]

The death toll in Iraq is declining rapidly as the US and Iraqis turn the tables on al-Qaeda and their Islamo Fascist cousins. The numbers are just amazing:
Thirty-seven Americans have died in October, the lowest monthly figure since March 2006 when 31 perished, according to the U.S. military.
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The number of Iraqi civilians killed in [...]

Just as the invasion of Normandy did not mean the end of WW II was a given (though in hindsight we see it was because of the Russian push against Germany on their Western Front kept Germany from defending the Allies from taking ground to the South and East) it is by no means a [...]