Non-Talking Points
It isn’t just the United States Congress that would rather not discuss Iraq right now. The loyal opposition isn’t interested in talking about it much in Australia, either. Bolt, Oz Daily Telegraph:
Here it is: The battle is actually over. Iraq has been won.
I know this will seem to many of you an insane claim. Ridiculous!
After all, haven’t you read countless stories that Iraq is a “disaster”, turned by a “civil war” into a “killing field”?
Didn’t Labor leader Kevin Rudd, in one of his few campaign references to Iraq, say it was the “greatest … national security policy disaster that our country has seen since Vietnam”?
You have. And you have been misled.
Here is just the latest underreported news, out this week.
Just 27 American soldiers were killed in action in Iraq in October - the lowest monthly figure since March last year. (This is a provisional figure and may alter over the next week.)
The number of Iraqi civilians killed last month - mostly by Islamist and fascist terrorists - was around 760, according to Iraqi Government sources.
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Add it all up. Iraq not only remains a democracy, but shows no sign of collapse.
I repeat: the battle for a free Iraq has been won.
Now the task is one familiar to every democracy, and especially any in the Middle East: eternal vigilance.
The rest here, with details on indicators of victory, Iraq’s performance as a democracy, and why it was and is worth it. In closing, for those nostalgic for Saddam:
… even by the most conservative count you see Saddam did not just threaten the West, but cost the lives of more than 100 Muslims a day, every day, for the 24 years of his barbaric rule.
That’s four times more than are being killed in Iraq today, often by Saddam’s heirs and Saddam’s like.
Was Iraq worth it? Yes. It stands, it stays, and the winning of Iraq was worth it, indeed.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:32 am on Friday, November 2, 2007
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November 2nd, 2007 at 10:09 am
What a sad commentary on our own society that news of the war disappears from the front page because we are winning it.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:11 am
Why Iraq is Rarely on the Nightly News Now
Because western journalists are reluctant to report success in a campaign they had all but declared lost.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:06 pm
We’re winning, alright. I’ll check out the article and think about the indicators of victory.
If we’ve won in Iraq, the Democrats certainly didn’t get the news.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:09 pm
[...] Jules on declaring Victory. [...]
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Rudd ate too much earwax.