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Al-Maliki: Iraq Defeated Terrorism
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Iraq's prime minister said yesterday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing confidence after recent crackdowns against Sunni extremists and Shiite militias.
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A rout in Iraq
http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/011505.htmlWe're been burned, time and time again, by declarations that the tide has turned in Iraq. But stories like this are extremely encouraging: American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the
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Cross your fingers, hold your breath
http://www.barking-moonbat.com/index.php/weblog/cross_your_f...News Item:The last of Saddams yellowcake removed from Iraq. It took a lot of effort, and was kept mostly secret, but all 550 tons of yellowcake has been removed from Iraq. Legally. The Iraqi government sold it to a Canadian firm for processing. No, this
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki: Weve Defeated The Terrorists
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/iraqi_prime_minister_nouri_...How terribly inconvenient for Barack Obama and the rest of the Iraq war defeatists. They [the terrorists] were intending to besiege Baghdad and control it, al-Maliki said. But thanks to the will of the tribes, security forces, army and all Iraqis, we
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Iraqis defeat terrorism
http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/asymmetric/2008/07/06...BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister said yesterday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing confidence after recent crackdowns against Sunni extremists and Shiite militias. From here. Good for them. It seems a little
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Iraqis defeat terrorism
http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/asymmetric/2008/07/06...BAGHDAD Iraq's prime minister said yesterday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing confidence after recent crackdowns against Sunni extremists and Shiite militias. From here. Good for them. It seems a little
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We Won! Eat Your Heart Out Obama and Leftist Dems!
http://762justice.com/2008/07/09/we-won-eat-your-heart-out-o...Nancy Morgan RightBias.com By Nancy Morgan America, its allies and the Iraqi people have won the war against terror in Iraq. How do we know? Simple. Just follow the money. European and Asian investment companies are beating a path to Iraq, money in hand. Iraqi Airlines is flying high thanks to a colossal $5.5 billion contract with Boeing and the United Arab Emirates just canceled billions of dollars of Iraqi debt as they moved to restore a diplomatic mission in Baghdad. When foreign countries start investing billions of dollars in a country, its a safe bet they are aware of the risks involved. And, unlike the old news media and our elected Democrat officials, they see a relatively stable country ripe for investment. The influx of foreign investment is largely due to the improved security in Iraq, which continues to improve even after the withdrawal of nearly 25% of U.S. combat brigades. The Joint Chiefs of Staff recently acknowledged cautiously that security ‘is on its way to becoming sustainable.’ American and Iraqi forces have driven Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror. Al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister said that “the government has defeated terrorism in the country.” Pretty unequivocal. In fact, things are going so well in Iraq that the discussion has now shifted to a timetable for more troop withdrawals. The American media is silent on all this good news, possibly out of embarrassment for being so incredibly wrong on pretty much every single issue having to do with Iraq. They would like to forget their near universal scorn for the now successful surge. The Democrats had declared defeat and there was no way they would accept anything more. The media trumpeted their views. Lo and behold, the surge worked. Horror of horrors, Bush was right. When evidence of the progress on the ground was too overwhelming to ignore, new talking points emerged on the left. Democrats avowed that our military victory meant nothing. (Think about that a second) What really mattered, they intoned with one voice, was the political progress, as measured by Congressionally established benchmarks. More horrors. It appears that a March 2008 report shows that the Iraqis have met 15 of the 18 benchmarks. The silence from the left, and the old media is now deafening. Desperate to ignore any and all evidence of our astounding victory, the left, aided and abetted by the old media, continue to desperately search for any smidgen of bad news from Iraq. Not finding any, new talking points are starting to emerge. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the left has moved its focus off Iraq - to Afghanistan. The war has merely shifted, they say. We haven’t won, they claim. For shame. General David Howell Petraeus and President George W. Bush Even in Afghanistan, the tide is turning. But don’t expect to get the straight poop from our elected officials or our very own media. They will continue their 45 year strategy of re-defining reality to their own liking, unaware that the world has changed. The media no longer has a lock on what news Americans hear and Democrats no longer have a lock on defining the issues. The good news is, the old media is breathing its last biased breath. Even experts are astonished at the rapid rate of decline of this once robust profession. Prime indicators of this decline: New York Times stock is rated one step above junk bond status and the Los Angeles Times, for the first time in their history, had to lay off 250 jobs, 150 of them newsroom jobs. Yet, despite market realities, the old media continue to cling to the notion that the liberal point of view is the only valid one. Hasta la vista, baby. The Democrats are also starting to see the writing on the wall, with congressional approval ratings in the single digits for the first time ever. Even Obama, the most liberal of all Senators, is having to do the flip-flop two step regarding Iraq, allowing that the surge has achieved some stability and that the next president would be foolish to fritter away those gains - much to the dismay of his followers, who have invested their whole lives in the notion that America is the bad guy and terrorists are merely freedom fighters. The notion that America is a force for good in the world is not one liberals will ever embrace. Its called cognitive dissonance. And just as they cling to the notion that Alger Hiss was innocent and Che Guevera was a hero, they will continue to believe their own definition of reality, despite any and all evidence to the contrary. To admit they were wrong would invalidate them. And everything is about them. The reality is that America has accomplished the impossible in Iraq, giving millions of Iraqi people a chance to obtain the very freedoms the old media and liberals so casually pervert. God Bless America. [Bold Emphasis mine. ---ed] Nancy Morgan is a columnist and news editor for RightBias.com She lives in South Carolina
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We Won! Eat Your Heart Out Obama and Leftist Dems!
http://papundits.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/we-won-eat-your-he...We Won! Eat Your Heart Out Obama and Leftist Dems! Posted by papundits on July 9, 2008 Nancy Morgan RightBias.com By Nancy Morgan America, its allies and the Iraqi people have won the war against terror in Iraq. How do we know? Simple. Just follow the money. European and Asian investment companies are beating a path to Iraq, money in hand. Iraqi Airlines is flying high thanks to a colossal $5.5 billion contract with Boeing and the United Arab Emirates just canceled billions of dollars of Iraqi debt as they moved to restore a diplomatic mission in Baghdad. When foreign countries start investing billions of dollars in a country, its a safe bet they are aware of the risks involved. And, unlike the old news media and our elected Democrat officials, they see a relatively stable country ripe for investment. The influx of foreign investment is largely due to the improved security in Iraq, which continues to improve even after the withdrawal of nearly 25% of U.S. combat brigades. The Joint Chiefs of Staff recently acknowledged cautiously that security ‘is on its way to becoming sustainable.’ American and Iraqi forces have driven Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country in the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror. Al-Maliki, Iraq’s prime minister said that “the government has defeated terrorism in the country.” Pretty unequivocal. In fact, things are going so well in Iraq that the discussion has now shifted to a timetable for more troop withdrawals. The American media is silent on all this good news, possibly out of embarrassment for being so incredibly wrong on pretty much every single issue having to do with Iraq. They would like to forget their near universal scorn for the now successful surge. The Democrats had declared defeat and there was no way they would accept anything more. The media trumpeted their views. Lo and behold, the surge worked. Horror of horrors, Bush was right. When evidence of the progress on the ground was too overwhelming to ignore, new talking points emerged on the left. Democrats avowed that our military victory meant nothing. (Think about that a second) What really mattered, they intoned with one voice, was the political progress, as measured by Congressionally established benchmarks. More horrors. It appears that a March 2008 report shows that the Iraqis have met 15 of the 18 benchmarks. The silence from the left, and the old media is now deafening. Desperate to ignore any and all evidence of our astounding victory, the left, aided and abetted by the old media, continue to desperately search for any smidgen of bad news from Iraq. Not finding any, new talking points are starting to emerge. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the left has moved its focus off Iraq - to Afghanistan. The war has merely shifted, they say. We haven’t won, they claim. For shame. General David Howell Petraeus and President George W. Bush Even in Afghanistan, the tide is turning. But don’t expect to get the straight poop from our elected officials or our very own media. They will continue their 45 year strategy of re-defining reality to their own liking, unaware that the world has changed. The media no longer has a lock on what news Americans hear and Democrats no longer have a lock on defining the issues. The good news is, the old media is breathing its last biased breath. Even experts are astonished at the rapid rate of decline of this once robust profession. Prime indicators of this decline: New York Times stock is rated one step above junk bond status and the Los Angeles Times, for the first time in their history, had to lay off 250 jobs, 150 of them newsroom jobs. Yet, despite market realities, the old media continue to cling to the notion that the liberal point of view is the only valid one. Hasta la vista, baby. The Democrats are also starting to see the writing on the wall, with congressional approval ratings in the single digits for the first time ever. Even Obama, the most liberal of all Senators, is having to do the flip-flop two step regarding Iraq, allowing that the surge has achieved some stability and that the next president would be foolish to fritter away those gains - much to the dismay of his followers, who have invested their whole lives in the notion that America is the bad guy and terrorists are merely freedom fighters. The notion that America is a force for good in the world is not one liberals will ever embrace. Its called cognitive dissonance. And just as they cling to the notion that Alger Hiss was innocent and Che Guevera was a hero, they will continue to believe their own definition of reality, despite any and all evidence to the contrary. To admit they were wrong would invalidate them. And everything is about them. The reality is that America has accomplished the impossible in Iraq, giving millions of Iraqi people a chance to obtain the very freedoms the old media and liberals so casually pervert. God Bless America. [Bold Emphasis mine. ---ed] Nancy Morgan is a columnist and news editor for RightBias.com She lives in South Carolina Posted in 2008 Elections, America (USA), Barack Hussein Obama, Demo-gogues, Democrats, Dhimmicrat, GOD, Iraq, Islamic Terrorists, Liberals, MSM (Main Stream Media) Liberal, Media, Muslim Terrorists, NYT (Ninny York Tales), News and Views, Political Prostitutes, Politics, War against Militant Islamism, War on Terrorism, al Qaeda | Tagged: Al-Maliki, Baghdad, Che Guevera, God Bless America, Leftist, Los Angeles Times, United Arab Emirates
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WaPo Cherry-Picks Its Maliki News
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/07/08/wapo-cher..."Maliki Suggests U.S. Troop Timetable: Iraqi Premier's Remarks Reflect Political Plight" -- Today's Washington Post front page. "Al-Maliki: Iraq Defeated Terrorism." -- Not today's Washington Post front page. (Foxnews.com.) The Fox site used that headline for an AP dispatch on Sunday: Iraq's prime minister said yesterday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing confidence after recent crackdowns against Sunni extremists and Shiite militias. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki began the crackdowns to extend the authority of the government over areas in Baghdad and elsewhere that have largely been under the control of armed groups since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. "They were intending to besiege Baghdad and control it," al-Maliki said. "But thanks to the will of the tribes, security forces, army and all Iraqis, we defeated them." ....Bolstered by this confidence, al-Maliki plans to visit the United Arab Emirates today and also Italy and Germany later in the month — apparently hoping that improved security at home will pay dividends in greater international support. Iraq is also enjoying a surge in oil revenue driven by record crude prices and the highest production levels since Saddam's ouster. The government expects to make a total of $70 billion from oil in 2008 if prices stay high. The Post front page, by Sudarsan Raghavan and Karen DeYoung, ignored those remarks Monday and played up the bad-for-Bush story on Tuesday: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has for the first time suggested establishing a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, a step that the Bush administration has long opposed. ....The Bush administration has said that a timetable would play into the hands of enemy forces who would lie low until U.S. troops were gone. Instead, top military and administration officials have said that withdrawal decisions must be based on conditions on the ground. Most of the additional "surge" forces sent to Iraq last year are due to pull out by the end of this month, leaving about 140,000 U.S. troops. Indeed, Sadiq al-Rikabi, a top political adviser to Maliki, said any timetable would be conditioned on the ability of Iraq's security forces to secure the country, something the government has long said. "In that case, American forces should return home," Rikabi said, adding that there were no discussions so far of specific dates for a U.S. withdrawal. If one were feeling argumentative, one could argue that the explanation that the White House saw no change in position and there were no discussions of specific withdrawal dates isn't much of a story -- or at the very least, it's no more of a story than al-Maliki proclaiming terrorism has been defeated.
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WaPo Cherry-Picks Its Maliki News
http://www.conservativesyndicate.us/wapo-cherry-picks-its-ma..."Maliki Suggests U.S. Troop Timetable: Iraqi Premier's Remarks Reflect Political Plight" -- Today's Washington Post front page. "Al-Maliki: Iraq Defeated Terrorism." -- Not today's Washington Post front page. (Foxnews.com.) The Fox site used that headline for an AP dispatch on Sunday: Iraq's prime minister said yesterday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing confidence after recent crackdowns against Sunni extremists and Shiite militias. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki began the crackdowns to extend the authority of the government over areas in Baghdad and elsewhere that have largely been under the control of armed groups since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. "They were intending to besiege Baghdad and control it," al-Maliki said. "But thanks to the will of the tribes, security forces, army and all Iraqis, we defeated them." ....Bolstered by this confidence, al-Maliki plans to visit the United Arab Emirates today and also Italy and Germany later in the month — apparently hoping that improved security at home will pay dividends in greater international support. Iraq is also enjoying a surge in oil revenue driven by record crude prices and the highest production levels since Saddam's ouster. The government expects to make a total of $70 billion from oil in 2008 if prices stay high. The Post front page, by Sudarsan Raghavan and Karen DeYoung, ignored those remarks Monday and played up the bad-for-Bush story on Tuesday: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has for the first time suggested establishing a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, a step that the Bush administration has long opposed. ....The Bush administration has said that a timetable would play into the hands of enemy forces who would lie low until U.S. troops were gone. Instead, top military and administration officials have said that withdrawal decisions must be based on conditions on the ground. Most of the additional "surge" forces sent to Iraq last year are due to pull out by the end of this month, leaving about 140,000 U.S. troops. Indeed, Sadiq al-Rikabi, a top political adviser to Maliki, said any timetable would be conditioned on the ability of Iraq's security forces to secure the country, something the government has long said. "In that case, American forces should return home," Rikabi said, adding that there were no discussions so far of specific dates for a U.S. withdrawal. If one were feeling argumentative, one could argue that the explanation that the White House saw no change in position and there were no discussions of specific withdrawal dates isn't much of a story -- or at the very least, it's no more of a story than al-Maliki proclaiming terrorism has been defeated.
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WaPo Cherry-Picks Its Maliki News
http://acbradio.net/2008/07/08/wapo-cherry-picks-its-maliki-..."Maliki Suggests U.S. Troop Timetable: Iraqi Premier’s Remarks Reflect Political Plight" — Today’s Washington Post front page. "Al-Maliki: Iraq Defeated Terrorism." — Not today’s Washington Post front page. (Foxnews.com.) The Fox site used that headline for an AP dispatch on Sunday: Iraq’s prime minister said yesterday that the government has defeated terrorism in the country, a sign of growing confidence after recent crackdowns against Sunni extremists and Shiite militias. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki began the crackdowns to extend the authority of the government over areas in Baghdad and elsewhere that have largely been under the control of armed groups since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. "They were intending to besiege Baghdad and control it," al-Maliki said. "But thanks to the will of the tribes, security forces, army and all Iraqis, we defeated them." ….Bolstered by this confidence, al-Maliki plans to visit the United Arab Emirates today and also Italy and Germany later in the month — apparently hoping that improved security at home will pay dividends in greater international support. Iraq is also enjoying a surge in oil revenue driven by record crude prices and the highest production levels since Saddam’s ouster. The government expects to make a total of $70 billion from oil in 2008 if prices stay high. The Post front page, by Sudarsan Raghavan and Karen DeYoung, ignored those remarks Monday and played up the bad-for-Bush story on Tuesday: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has for the first time suggested establishing a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, a step that the Bush administration has long opposed. ….The Bush administration has said that a timetable would play into the hands of enemy forces who would lie low until U.S. troops were gone. Instead, top military and administration officials have said that withdrawal decisions must be based on conditions on the ground. Most of the additional "surge" forces sent to Iraq last year are due to pull out by the end of this month, leaving about 140,000 U.S. troops. Indeed, Sadiq al-Rikabi, a top political adviser to Maliki, said any timetable would be conditioned on the ability of Iraq’s security forces to secure the country, something the government has long said. "In that case, American forces should return home," Rikabi said, adding that there were no discussions so far of specific dates for a U.S. withdrawal. If one were feeling argumentative, one could argue that the explanation that the White House saw no change in position and there were no discussions of specific withdrawal dates isn’t much of a story — or at the very least, it’s no more of a story than al-Maliki proclaiming terrorism has been defeated.
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