Good News Bad News
Lots of news from and about Iraq, Iran, Waziristan, all these places. Good, bad, ugly and irrelevant. How’s it stack up? Let’s have a look:
Good news from Iraq: al-Zarqawi’s replacement wounded and a top aide killed, Iraqi officials say. No confirmation, no word on how they know, though, and PJM with more detail on the raid says there was no capture and questions whether he was wounded. Well, if he was, I hope it hurts!
Good news from Iraq: Strategypage mulls it all and sees great loss of credibility for al Qaeda in Iraq and Shiite militias in disarray.
More good news from Iraq: even the AP can’t ignore the voices of Iraqis who want the surge to succeed, though they bury them as deep as they can in the story.
More good news from Iraq: raid on Baghdad’s largest Shiite mosque turns up weapons, allows US to say surge is being applied evenly on Shiites and Sunnis … although arrests of top al-Sadr aides indicated it was head that way anyway.
Shameful news re Iraq: WSJ Opinion Journal on a new low in Congress.
Non-binding news re Iraq: after Friday’s vote, all deaths in Iraq will be non-binding.
Bad news re Iraq: Murtha, who wanted to surrender outright. now would just like the bleed American soldiers slowly by stopping the cashflow. Irrelevant news re Iran, same link: Pelosi says Bush needs her permission to attack Iran.
Bad news re Iraq: GAO says about $10 billion has been squandered in contractor overcharges in Iraq.
Good news re Iraq: Not clear where Moqtada al-Sadr is, but we do know he’s scared and hiding.
Jamil news from Iraq: Jamil Hussein is still not Jamil Hussein.
Good news in Iraq: they’ve started shutting the borders down.
Bad news re Iraq: Iran’s Quds force deeply enmeshed in Iraq. Source of external support for murderous militias.
Good news re Iraq: Iran’s Quds force deeply enmeshed in Iraq. That means we can kill them, and it may make it impossible for the surrender camp in DC to keep resisting strong action against Iran.
Bad news re Iran: the willful ignorance of the insidiousness of an enemy who has been attacking us for 28 years is astonishing.
Good news re Iran: George Bush doesn’t intend to let that stop him from doing what he has to do, and that drives socialists and their fellow travellers crazy. He also isn’t mincing words on Iran’s involvement in Iraq, despite some people’s eagerness to cling to any ambiguity.
Great news in Iran: they are under attack internally. Maybe the Baluchis or whoever is behind it can crank it up, start blowing stuff up in Teheran. Give the mullahs a taste of their own medicine.
Good news from Waziristan: al-Zawahiri is reduced to throwing insults at George Bush and feels compelled to kiss the ass of a semi-literate one-eyed Afghan pederast.
Good news from Houston. Beantown’s own latest homegrown jihadi, who went to Somalia and wanted to kill Americans, is no longer in circulation.
So good news, bad news, can we add it all up? It’s no easy calculation. The eagerness to embrace humiliation and defeat in Congress is a potentially serious problem, but not as long as they remain as gutless as they are now. Signs are they are aiming their big guns at their feet. Non-binding resolutions are a win as long as they are non-binding and slow-bleed threatens to backfire.
In Baghdad, al-Sadr has given the surge a vote of confidence by bolting, and the heat is on. A get-serious attitude appears to be in effect and the Iraq War is once again what it really always has been. Ours to lose.
As for Iran, a little deterrence could go a very long way. But since Nancy Pelosi won’t give George Bush permission to do anything about Iran, a battalion of Iran’s elite Quds Force in Iraq is great news … one more thing to negotiate with the terrorist-supporting mullahs about, and someone we can surrender to! Either that or more evidence the Dems sooner or later won’t be able to ignore the “Kick Me” sign Iran has taped to its own back in Iraq.
Meanwhile, six years on, al Qaeda cavedwellers are rapidly approaching irrelevance.
Good news wins!
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:24 pm on Thursday, February 15, 2007
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February 15th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Bill’s Nibbles — 2007.02.15
Some Bill’s Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I’m sending you to the original post. I may rearrange the order of the items within this post as I add new things that I think belong above the
February 15th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Good News Bad News
Good News Bad News Jules Crittenden Lots of news from and about Iraq, Iran, Waziristan, all these places. Good, bad, ugly and irrelevant. How’s it stack up? Let’s have a look: Good news from Iraq: al-Zarqawi’s replacement wounded and a
February 16th, 2007 at 7:09 am
[...] UPDATE: Jules Crittenden looks at the good news coming out of the Middle East: 1. The good guys wounded the top al-Qaeda thug in Iraq. 2. Al-Qaeda and Shia militias are in disarray. 3. We’re willing to raid the largest Shia mosque in Baghdad (weapons were found). And so on. [...]
February 16th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Bad News for the U.S….Al Gore, after winning an Oscar and being awarded the Nobel, will be in the running for President of the United States. The REALLY bad news is, he could win.
February 16th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Explain how Murtha’s ‘bleeding by cuts’ isn’t treason?
February 16th, 2007 at 10:16 am
“The eagerness to embrace humiliation and defeat in Congress is a potentially serious problem, but not as long as they remain as gutless as they are now.”
Last evening I made the attempt to email, one gutless representative. The one that was involved in the Abscam scandal, but was not indicted, The one that “appropriates” plenty of government money, to make sure his relatives and home folk keep him in office, (in other words, enough of these people are bought and paid for) and they have, for 30 years. His name, Murtha.
I could not email Murtha, as like many of his colleagues, his website on through http://www.house.gov/ indicated that it was for residents of Congressional District 12, PA. only.
Many other Representatives have the same message, not all, but quite a few. Now, I can understand the logic behind that, I think…BUT here are a few 435 ( the Senate at this site http://www.senate.gov/) seem open to hearing via email, from “We The People”.
My point is the “few 435″, bring and sponsor bills such as the “gutless” “bleed slowly” bill now in discussion. This 435 (for the most part) will not allow “We The People” to be heard, yet what ‘THEY’ do, affects close to, if not over, 300 million people.
This is not government by representation. It does have the smell of government by Talibanic, decree.
Yes, I can lean on my representative and have, but what I want, is to lean on the coward’s in the body of 435. I do intend to email every Senator in an effort to have this “white flag, Zawahiri (sic) is angry at us so we better pass it”, Bill defeated.
Unfortunately, there are many “white flaggers” in the Senate, as well. One would assume (and that’s bad to do, think that is) that majorities in both houses of congress are not of French extraction who seem use to waving “white flags”.