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It doesn't matter what Petraeus says in the fall.

Once it's filtered through the press it will still sound like failure. He could report that every Sunni joined hands with a Shia and there wasn't a death all quarter and the troops managed to cure cancer in their spare time, and the press will still spin it as American failure.

Look how they've been reporting the booming economy.

The sooner the Mainstream media dies, the better off we'll all be.

"Understand this: The Democratic Party's political success in the 2008 election cycle is based on American defeat in Iraq."

Ha ha - so you wish. The GOP is going into the political wilderness for at least the next decade and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

Yes, of course, the Dems want to be known as the party that lost Iraq.
They are currently known as the party that lost Vietnam, and that has worked out very well for them. They desperately want a repeat of Vietnam. Back then they were young, beautiful, and powerful. How could they not want a repeat of that?
Plus, every single military action we have been involved in since Vietnam has been predicted to be (wait for it) ... "another Vietnam": Afghan, Gulf War I, f'ing Granada even. The Dems are a broken record and Vietnam is their tune.
Of course, they want to lose.

The tradegy is that the Democrats have put their personal ambitions ahead of National Security. Al Qaeda would have a victory that would cause the world grief for generations.

The left and their mouthpieces in the press are so desperate for us to lose, that I'm not even that clear that they're on our side.

Mike Roth, that is because they can understand the pain of a loss in power, but cannot understand what letting evil run in the world costs. For their needs, what happens elsewhere is of little concern, save as how it plays in American politics.

In Vietnam, Nixon patiently triangulated the Soviets & ChiComs into understanding that their national interests lay with trade & better relations with the U.S. Linebacker II resulted, bringing Vietnam to the table with a deep understanding of what the USAF can do sans LBJ targeting.
There is no one to triangulate with in Iraq & Afghanistan. The left is making a huge mistake; we cannot run from this fight. The emboldened jihadists are only to eager to follow.

In Vietnam, Nixon patiently triangulated the Soviets & ChiComs into understanding that their national interests lay with trade & better relations with the U.S. Linebacker II resulted, bringing Vietnam to the table with a deep understanding of what the USAF can do sans LBJ targeting.
There is no one to triangulate with in Iraq & Afghanistan. The left is making a huge mistake; we cannot run from this fight. The emboldened jihadists are only to eager to follow.

THis is an idiotic thesis. The Democrats can count to 60. They know there's no way to force a troop withdrawl before September. They don't have the votes to stope a fillibuster, let alone a veto. You people have been predicting imminent victory in Iraq for four years now; longer than WWII. Military victory is impossible in Iraq.

The "surge" should have happened during the invasion. The only strategic interests we sent enough troops to guard were oil fields. Bush likes to talk about how congress shouldn't be running the war, but it should be left to military commanders on the ground. Military commanders recommended nearly 500,000 troops to fully control the country. They got about 160,000 at the height of the invasion. We are now playing catch-up, only we'll never win. You can't win a civil war. You can only encourage a truce. But you have to use diplomacy, not force.

Trying to pin the failure on the democrats only makes the republicans look stupid. Everyone knows the warhawks in the Bush administration invented a crisis in Iraq, and 911 was just a convenient excuse to invade. They're not fooling anyone.

What no one seems to understand is that they want total control, that we are the infidel? Are we going to get that through our heads before it's too late??