McCain Talks, Walks
Leftie blogs snark on it: Yeah, him and whose Army?  But I haven’t seen any of them do that. * Imagine, forcing the military to venture out into the open! How dare Arizona have an economy!
McCain says, a shocker for any regular AP readers, that the American people may not be getting the full picture on the success of the surge. Â
McCain gets heckled by the pro-al-Qaeda press, who don’t know which Baghdad neighborhood he’s talking about.  Meanwhile, some pols prefer to view Iraq from another vantage point.
The big news is, McCain’s just set a new bar for presidential candidates, reps and senators. Hillary, Obama, Rudy, Mitt, Pelosi, Reid … maybe even John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, though we know Kerry likes to spend as little time as possible in war zones and Kennedy, I’m not sure he’s ever been near one.  You want to talk the talk on Iraq, you must walk the walk.  And unless you get blown up by a car bomb, you may then be forced to acknowledge … you know.
The president of the United States? Contrary to what a lot of his opponents in and out of government might think, he is actually more important than all of the abovementioned parties. But if FDR and Churchill could meet in the middle of the U-boat infested Atlantic, I don’t see why George Bush can’t wander through a Baghdad market. Â
* News flash, leftie dolts: They kill American soldiers, and don’t mind dying themselves in the process. Don’t know if you’ve noticed. OK, it works like this. We sent a lot more troops to Baghdad … just like the ones who  went out with McCain the other day, because there are bad people there who will murder anyone, including women and children in prks and marketplaces, to get their way.  It is a very dangerous neighborhood, but by saturating the place with troops, we are buying the Iraqis some time while we deal with the insurgents and death squads, and train up the Iraqis to handle it themselves. Â
And its working. The number of attacks is way down, Iraqis feel safer, Iran is feeling the heat, the Mahdi Army has stood down and the Sunni tribes are now engaged in combat wih al-Qaeda. The enemy … by which I mean al-Qaeda, Iran, Shiite deaths squads, not the people on Capitol Hill who also would see innocent Iraqis slaughtered by the tens of thousands … has reacted with dramatic attacks elsewhere. They, and this time I do include the Dem Cong, are doing everything they can to undermine the surge. Because an American success in Iraq is the last thing they want, and they fear it might actually be happening.Â
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:12 am on Monday, April 2, 2007
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April 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 am
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April 2nd, 2007 at 11:25 am
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April 2nd, 2007 at 11:48 am
Actually, that was “leftie dolts.”
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:14 pm
It’s a Feudian slip, Jules.
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:32 pm
2007.04.02 Iraq/Surrendercrat Roundup– Sunni insurgents kill two Al Qaeda capos in Baghdad
Iraq: A pessimistic assessment Scott Johnson One of our hometown heroes serving in Iraq has written to provide his assessment of the situation there. He writes by way of preface: It’s not pretty but it is reality. My job as
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I like “idiots” better. No harm in calling a spade a spade.
April 2nd, 2007 at 6:35 pm
I like idiots better too.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:42 am
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