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Friday, July 25, 2008
John Hawkins :: Townhall.com Columnist
A Look Back: What Democrats Were Saying About The Surge
by John Hawkins
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"...I'm absolutely convinced right now the surge isn't working and I'm convinced that if they don't pay attention to what I'm saying and a lot of other members of Congress are saying they're going to have a disaster on their hands..." -- John Murtha

"I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse. I think (the surge) takes pressure off the Iraqis to arrive at the sort of political accommodation that every observer believes is the ultimate solution to the problems we face there. So I am going to actively oppose the president's proposal." -- Barack Obama

"The gains have not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq. (This surge) is a failure. This is a failure." -- Nancy Pelosi

"I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week." -- Harry Reid

In November, when voters are trying to decide whom to trust to handle the war in Iraq, they should consider whom they want in charge: John McCain, a man who has strongly supported the troops and surge or the same group of liberal Democrats who were boosting the morale of our enemies by incorrectly claiming that the surge couldn't work.

Will we honor the sacrifices of our troops by carrying on to victory or will we allow the Democrats who have previously shown such poor judgment to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq in order to please their anti-war base? Only time will tell, but future generations of Americans will damn us for our shortsightedness if we allow the politicians to fritter away the coming triumph in Iraq that has been paid for with so much of the blood, sweat, and tears of our soldiers.

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Reply # 1
Date: Jul 28, 2008 - 8:43 AM EST
So?
So they've lost interest in killing Americans, and?

All this proves is that the Jihadists are tired of killing Americans at the cost of their own lives.

Meaning they never had any intention of taking the country over, only to kill as many Christians as possible.

And as such, having pulled our troops out of there earlier would have been the best course of action.

That in combination with politician NOT having turned it into a holy-war in the first place.

So, in summation:

The victory was had years ago, when Saddam was removed from power.

This is merely the end of a pointless ego- and religion-driven show of force, which cost thousands of Americans and Iraqis their lives.

In laymen terms, the pious protestants' pissing contest cost lives, and did nothing.

/start sarcasm

YAY! death and the forestall of progress for nothing, GO PIOUS RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS!!!

/end sarcasm
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Reply # 2
Date: Jul 27, 2008 - 7:24 AM EST
Did anybody notice?
Dingy Harry and Nancy "Stretch Face" Pelosi ran to the cameras less than 48 hours into the surge to proclaim it a failure and once again trumpet that "the war is lost!". They can not WAIT to wave the white flag and run! This is the only way they can turn Iraq into Vietnam and they know it.

They came up in the Vietnam Era and have the old sick liberal worldview that the U.S. and its military are the focus of evil in the modern world and will do ANYTHING to make that demented vision come true.

READ General Giap's autobiography for God's sake!!! He was the former history professor who became North Vietnam's Gen. Washington. He never won more than a few small battles but won the war HERE at home and in the sick twisted media.

Tet was a disaster for the North. Our army wiped out an entire generation of North Vietnamese in days. But the cameras were there and ALL they showed were stacked body bags and crowded aid stations.

Giap ADMITS in his book that he was telling the North to surrender that they had no hope and then they showed him the unrest on the campuses caused by overpampered white bread college twerps. He saw the LIES of the "Winter Soldier" hearings (Jean Francois Kerry ring a bell?) and they hardened their resolve. We HAD them on the ropes and the media and politicians snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

-Ray
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