Comments about ‘Troop surge in Iraq is working despite jeering from Democrats’

You haven't assuaged this democratic leftists' talking points...why do we need a troop surge? Why are we there at all? How do we wean Iraq of..us? What will success look like and when will it happen? Is Iraq destined to be an american colony for decades to come?
Good news from our efforts in Iraq is positive. That we have efforts in Iraq is not.

This is your typical propagandist's tactic. The best lies require a few elements of truth. Education tells us to look for omissions to debunk lies.

Our great decider was told by his generals before we entered Iraq, an invasion of Iraq, required more troops. The word "surge" is lie number one. We finally establish reasonable troop levels after now many years of dismal failures?

Our military is under manned because the Bush administration keeps lying to Americans. Politically, a draft like the draft Rove, Limbaugh, Savage, O'Reilly, Bush and our vice president dodged, would be one more shovel of dirt in the grave and final resting place for a discredited neoconservatism.

The tactic now is too use bailing wire to hold things together until Bush bails out, like his father did in World War II, leaving the person sharing the plane with him to spin out of control, crash and die. Apples don't fall from from tress. The goal is to leave democrats holding the bag.

Iraq remains the fragmented society. The fractures widen daily.

The troop surge, as one part of the Iraq War, may be achieving the goal of reducing violence. That doesn't change my opinion one bit, which follows;
starting the Iraq War was the dumbest move that the U.S. has made in a long time, and it is bankrupting our great nation. Now that the Bush Administration has dragged us into a needless land war in Asia, he will walk away whistling, while the rest of us (most particularly the soldiers and their families) will be left to figure out what happens next.

Setting aside the fact that the administration invaded Iraq under a false pretext, the proof of our "success" will be when we try to leave. This we dare not do. Thank God American casualties are down, but we are still seen as an army of occupation, and that does not qualify as "working."

People are still dying and getting injured. Since the peak of the surges success, the violence has been going up and continues to go up. Although the surge has had a measure of success, it is really besides the point, there never were any weapons of mass destruction so we had no business going in, in the first place.

Everytime I pick up a news paper, the stated reason for us staying there changes. Americans are needlessly being blinded, amputated, suffering brain injuries and being killed for what? Our financial future is going up in smoke. We could be spending the war money shoring up social security, or servicing other needs.

I did not even mention the fact that due to the fact we invaded Iraq, we are streatched so thin, that we loosing ground in Afganistan.

We need to get out.

Apparently all the lib/dems that have commented about this editorial have forgotten the many trips to the corrupt UN made by this administration to get
Iraq to comply with what they originally agreed to
do after our first altercation w/Hussein in 1990. This, over a period of 14 yrs. In the meantime, it's always easy to be an armchair quarterback!
It's nice that one editorial shows what's really going on in Iraq instead of all the demoralizing articles printed by the leftist media designed to
hurt our country and our soldiers morale!! Good on
Deroy Murdock!

I've been there seen it and done it. Those of you who have commented above really have no idea what you are talking about. Thank you for your support Donna.