Comments on: Iraq Government Missed All Goals

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:08:50 +0000

The report also says that most of the security benchamarks were satisfactory, including the most important - the turnaround in Anbar. Also, consider this intel obtained from AQ in Iraq. I know you hate gateway pundit, Justin, but these findings are significant. He says this:

Al Qaeda in Iraq itself considers the areas handed over to Iraqi control as areas NOT under their control. They admit this IN THEIR OWN PROPAGANDA

If this is true, then it is imperitive that we continue to support the Iraqi military forces on the ground. Areas of Iraq are being handed over, slowly but surely, and Al Qaeda itself admits this is a defeat for them. The Iraqi security forces won't be able to continue this progress on their own, or else they would have done it themselves by now.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:45:15 +0000

lol, good points by Scott and davod about our Congress. I hadn’t thought of it that way before.

By: Texas Gal

Texas Gal — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:48:11 +0000

Well, if I was an Iraqi PM and I kept hearing that the American Senate was getting ready to bug out, I doubt that I’d be to interested in working on any kind of deal to share anything since it’s going to be a winner take all in the region.

It’s really more than a shame that this war has had to be fought against AQ, Iran, Sunni Insurgency, Sadr’s Goons, MSM, Sheehan/CodePinkos/et al, Liberal Loons, Self-Serving Democrats, and now Poll-Hugging Republicans.

I’d say Bush has held up pretty damn good based on all the opponents!

By: davod

davod — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:30:18 +0000

Democrat Congress better than Iraqi govermnent – get one measure pased in six months. Mind you the Iraqis are working an extremely hazardous environmen.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:07:46 +0000

Since you’re done wasting your time with the Iraqis, you might also want to stop supporting our OWN Democrat-controlled Congress, which so far has missed most of its benchmarks as well, depsite throwing TRILLIONS of dollars their way.

A political situation in Iraq will NOT rectify itself until the situation on the ground changes, and that can only be accomplished by waging war on the enemies. Any failure to do that, or capitualation on our part, will cripple the Iraqi government and make it moot. Your exultation that a solution can only be accomplished WHEN WE LEAVE flies in the face of what the Iraqi Foreign Minister said just yesterday, in which he warned an American pull-out would be disastrous for his country.

A new course IS underway in Iraq, and is showing some signs of progress. We owe our troops and the Iraqis a chance to let it work and achieve some kind of victory out of this.

By: Donklephant » Blog Archive » VIDEO: Tony Snow On Interim Iraq Report

Donklephant » Blog Archive » VIDEO: Tony Snow On Interim Iraq Report — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:27:44 +0000

[...] I wrote about this yesterday, but in the interest of fairness, take a look and see if you think he has any valid points. [...]

By: Center of Attention » The Moderate Voice

Center of Attention » The Moderate Voice — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:16:37 +0000

[...] On to matters of more weight, Justin Gardner chimes in on the recruiting woes of the DHS and the “interim mid-July assessment” of “progress” in Iraq. [...]