By The Way, It’s Official …
… we can win in Iraq, we are winning in Iraq, and George Bush’s surge strategy is responsible for it. Not even the AP can ignore it* anymore:
The US military has captured the leaders of a car-bombing ring blamed for killing hundreds of Iraqis.
The news came as the departing US ambassador said Americans are in ongoing talks with insurgent representatives to try to persuade them to turn against al-Qaeda.
It is noteworthy, though the AP can’t quite bring itself to note it, that the anti-al-Qaeda Sunni insurgents have advanced beyond the Democratic congressional leadership in their thinking:
Khalilzad said the talks have shifted from “unreasonable demands” by the groups for a US withdrawal to forming an alliance against al-Qaeda. He said the effort has gained support among tribal leaders and even some insurgents.
“Iraqis are uniting against al-Qaeda,” he said.
* The AP in this article grudgingly leaves out the kind of helpful interpretative graphs that usually are added to explain how Sunni bombings threaten Shiites, who no longer feel safe because the Mahdi Army bolted, and all of this threatens the fragile surge, blah blah blah. That stylistic habit would dictate a couple of graphs here to explain that by capturing the leaders and underlings of a major Sunni carbomb ring in Azamiyah, the Iraqi and US forces may be building confidence among the Shia, while the Sunni tribes and insurgents clearly are gaining confidence in the Shiite-dominated government as well as a high degree of comfort with an open-ended US presence.
But this is a difficult time for al-P as it is for the Dem Cong, so we cannot expect too much. Which is why we must forgive them the irrational exuberance of this rather pointed transition:
Khalilzad’s remarks coincided with the eruption of sectarian violence in Sunni-Shi’ite towns south of the capital.
Which appears to refer to sectarian clashes that left two people dead in Iskandariyah and a bomb in Mahaweel that killed no one.
LA Times, getting on board for the big win.
Today’s related links at this site for incoming readers:
What it all looked like back when we started.
Same war, different battle, more forward movement.
Topics: Iraq
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 2:57 am on Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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March 27th, 2007 at 3:26 am
Hot Air has a vent piece up about Diyala province being next on the Hit AQ Parade Where They Live parade.
March 27th, 2007 at 5:15 am
Bill’s Nibbles // Open Post — 2007.03.27
Please feel free to use this post for comments and trackbacks not related to other posts on the site. If you leave a trackback your post must include a link to this one and, as always, comments claiming the sun
March 27th, 2007 at 5:17 am
By The Way, It’s Official …
By The Way, It’s Official … Jules Crittenden … we can win in Iraq, we are winning in Iraq, and George Bush’s surge strategy is responsible for it. Not even the AP can ignore it* anymore: The US military has
March 27th, 2007 at 8:48 am
Leaders of car-bombing ring captured
The US military has captured the leaders of a car-bombing ring blamed for killing hundreds of Iraqis. The news came as the departing US ambassador said Americans are in ongoing talks with insurgent representatives to try to persuade them to
March 27th, 2007 at 9:53 am
I imagine that the amounts of alcohol consumed by AP editors is increasing, so as to kill the bad taste in their mouths. Heh!
March 27th, 2007 at 11:22 am
[…] Jules Crittenden has some more encouraging news: US troops captured several major figures in a bombing ring. The US military has captured the leaders of a car-bombing ring blamed for killing hundreds of […]
March 27th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Worst Nightmare
After Nancy Pelosi and John "Unindicted Co-Conspirator" Murtha led a slim majority of the House Democrats (plus two Republicans) one pork chop too far with their supplementary spending bill, about the worst thing that could hap…
March 27th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Good News From Iraq Part #27–Its Official
I said once before, betting against America and our fine military is a VERY bad idea!!!!
March 27th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Web Reconnaissance for 03/27/2007
A short recon of whats out there that might draw your attention.
March 27th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
[…] Jules Crittenden started my day out with a smile by showing us that even the AP cannot deny the success the new strategy is seeing in Iraq. […]
March 27th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
[…] looking more and more likely. Every day the news from Iraq is getting a little more positive, and even the AP is having to start to show […]
March 27th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I know it hurts when the AP has to admit, grudgingly, that George Bush isn’t the Antichrist, and the world isn’t about to end. At least I hope it does.
March 27th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Grimmy-the Weekly Standard had a piece on what our new war strategy might be a few months ago. It called for clearing the Diyala river basin along with the Tigris and Euphrates all the way to Baghdad before having one final slugout for the city. I think we may have altered that strategy somewhat so that we clean out the city first and then take the fight to the isolated groups in the towns along the rivers.
March 27th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
[…] what Blog of the Week–rapidly turning into Blog of the Spring–Jules Crittenden says, anyway: By The Way, It’s Official […]
March 27th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
[…] * May both sides fight to the last man: An L.A. Times report on rising red-on-red tensions and combat between Al-Qaeda and Iraq’s Sunni rebels. You have to think that enough of this will be good for the gene pool if they fight it out harmlessly in the open desert. ht: Jules Crittenden. […]
March 27th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
CavMedic:
Yep. Although I rendered that initial post to a state of near incomprehensibility (PIMF is for the vain), I intended it as a basic heads up to readers that at least one more hard fight is in the near future.
For the clued, it might be a good time to start gathering resources to counter the usual from the devotees of the cult of cowardice and adherents to the enemy’s propaganda.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
This isn’t what the Democrats expected when they took over Congress. W was supposed to cut and run from Iraq because that was what the “people” wanted. And Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Durbin, Murtha et al would use our new Viet Nam to sweep into the White House in 2008. This is the problem when the president is too “dumb” to read the newspapers. He changes tactics and rules of engagement because he decides maybe we should try to win the war. If only he would follow the script.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
[…] those that haven’t yet heard the good news? We’re winning in Iraq! … we can win in Iraq, we are winning in Iraq, and George Bush’s surge strategy is […]
March 27th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Jules, you’ve really made the big time!!
I mean, you have a trackback from those bona fide “experts” in conservative political analysis at Sadly No!, and that über Australian and self made Israeli expert, Antony Loewenstein.
Congratulations!
March 27th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Antony Loewenstein is trackbacking? Ack, Jules. Does it make you feel… less than fresh?
March 27th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Check that out. Now I just need that duck cartoonist for a complete set.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:35 am
What? No mentions by Phatty Phil or the KosSacks? For shame!
March 28th, 2007 at 1:03 am
[…] Surber Ed Driscoll Smart Dogs Odd Bits And Jules Crittenden who notes that some legislators may have jumped on the surrender train only after it got a flat […]
March 28th, 2007 at 4:29 am
[…] Al Qaeda seem to be stepping up this attack on this and other anti-Al-Qaeda Sunni factions - they have have also claimed responsibility for the suicide bomber attack on Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam Zikam Ali al-Zubaie last Friday. The attack wounded al-Zubaie, and killed 9 people. Coincidentally Salam Zikam Ali al-Zubaie and Harith Dhaher al-Dhari are both from the al-Zubaie tribe, but appear to belong to different factions. The Deputy Prime Minister is considered to be the “second-most-powerful Sunni official in the government, who hails from the Islamist-dominated Tawafoq Iraqi Front — the largest Sunni coalition, which controls 44 seats in parliament” (Stratfor), representing the mainstream Sunni community. As Stratfor reports, this can only mean that the mainstream Sunnis have turned against Al-Qaeda and their Islamic State in Iraq and Al-Qaeda is trying to retaliate by assassinating leaders of moderate pro-government and nationalist Sunni factions that oppose them, which will only work to further turn the tide against them. Small but positives steps forward. Jules Crittenden reports on others. […]
March 28th, 2007 at 4:38 am
Robert Kaplan’s book “Imperial Grunts” provides a persuasive argument that our military has known how to conduct counterinsurgencies very well, but since the appropriate tactics don’t support setting up Green Zones and massive bases with Full Pentagon Bureaucracy, they tend to be ignored by the top most brass.
I came away with the conviction that we could dispense with about four rings of the Pentagon with only improved efficiency as the result.
March 28th, 2007 at 8:01 am
“Iraqis are uniting against al-Qaeda,” he said.
But AQ is ecstatic that the Dems are still with them
March 28th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
[…] Meanwhile, read this from Jules […]
March 29th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
“… we can win in Iraq, we are winning in Iraq”
We won a long time ago. But, staying in Iraq to kill more terrorists and Baathists is a fine idea. Also, we’ll need bases there when we get it together to slaughter the mad mullahs in Iran and the Baathists in Syria.