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| President Cites 'Encouraging Signs' From Iraq |
| 2007-03-07 |
| Democrats Say He Is Raising False Hopes President Bush said yesterday that there are "encouraging signs" that his new strategy in Iraq is working and bluntly challenged a divided Congress to provide funding for the war with no restrictions on commanders. The president's appraisal, his first detailed assessment of the war since unveiling his new plan for Iraq on Jan. 10, was immediately attacked by congressional Democrats as a new attempt to raise false hopes about a deteriorating situation in Iraq. Advisers said Bush's comments were based on briefings from commanders on the ground and were designed to counter the argument from many Democrats on Capitol Hill that his Iraq strategy is destined to fail. Bush said the Iraqi government has completed the deployment of three additional Iraqi army brigades to Baghdad and has lifted restrictions on U.S. forces going into certain neighborhoods in the capital. He said the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has also started delivering on promises to meet political benchmarks, such as a new law to distribute oil revenues throughout the country. "It is too early to judge the success of this operation. . . . This strategy is going to take time," Bush told hundreds of veterans gathered at the American Legion conference in Washington. "Yet even at this early hour, there are some encouraging signs." Pretty fair, for the WaPo, so far.... |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #14 Panarabism and islamism are in fact brothers: you cannot exalt greatness of the Arab nation without exalting what forged it. Hummmm... Ima missed that on first read thru. Hummmm..... Ima ponder hard on that. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-03-07 21:34 |
| #13 We hung Saddam, who's next? Don't win another war against the US. /Lucky |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-03-07 20:57 |
| #12 " I think the Democrats greatly misread why they were given a majority, and will find it taken away at the next election." We can only hope that this is the case . |
| Posted by: MacNails 2007-03-07 13:09 |
| #11 I'm beginning to really, REALLY hate Democrats. The ones here in Colorado want to formalize "gay" marriages, against the wishes of about 65% of the state population. But because Denver (~4million of the state's ~5million people) is populated by a slight majority of Democrats, they think they can do whatever they please, and the rest of the state just has to grin and bear it. I think the Democrats greatly misread why they were given a majority, and will find it taken away at the next election. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-03-07 12:42 |
| #10 Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), said a deadline of Dec. 31, 2008, is unacceptably distant and promised that "a very respectable group of members" would not vote to fund the war unless Democratic leaders take a more aggressive stand to bring troops home much sooner. Ah, yes, the "Let's cut and run NOW, so we don't ruin Hillary's chances in 2008" Caucus. I recognize it clearly now. |
| Posted by: BA 2007-03-07 11:52 |
| #9 I don't recall anything that says those "Virgins" have to be female, how about any Jihadists who die as Virgins find themselves on the wrong side of the "Virgin's" list, sounds like poetic justice to me. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-03-07 11:43 |
| #8 Allan is out of virgins at the rate his flock is getting killed. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-03-07 10:26 |
| #7 The most encouraging news I have seen from Iraq was video from Fox yesterday showing 4 AQ terrorists who had been shooting at helicopters who disappeared in a hail of gunship fire from the air--Allan calling them to the virgins. More and faster please. |
| Posted by: John 2007-03-07 10:16 |
| #6 "No Left Turn"? |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-03-07 09:51 |
| #5 An august and respected group all (sarcasm). |
| Posted by: John 2007-03-07 09:45 |
| #4 "…a very respectable group of members would not vote to fund the war unless Democratic leaders take a more aggressive stand to bring troops home much sooner." Here is a sampling of some of the “very respectable” folks from the “Out of Iraq Caucus”. Rep. Corrine Brown, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, Rep. William Jefferson, Rep. James Moran |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-03-07 09:35 |
| #3 Although Iraq will never achieve the stable, nonviolent smiley-faced democracy we could hope for (it is an Arabic Muslim country, after all) They will... once they like a number of Algerian Berbers begin to say I don't care about being a Muslim and certainly not an Arab. They will once they begin to challenge that Arabs and Islam saved them from darkness (one of the myths created by Islam to keep subject nations docile) but that in fact they were a brilliant civilization and that it was Islam and the Arab invaders who plunged them into darkness. Panarabism and islamism are in fact brothers: you cannot exalt greatness of the Arab nation without exalting what forged it. And you cannot forge a democracy with people who think this is kaffir and like everything kaffir inferior. That is why both islamism and arabism. Both for our good and theirs. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-03-07 08:28 |
| #2 I'm not sure who hates America more, Al-Q or the Democrat Party. It's certain that both DO hate this country, however. Democrat Party members, for the most part, are criminals and traitors. |
| Posted by: mac 2007-03-07 08:26 |
| #1 Although Iraq will never achieve the stable, nonviolent smiley-faced democracy we could hope for (it is an Arabic Muslim country, after all), history will show that we have ALREADY turned the corner on achieving our objective of stabilizing the place to the extent that a civil war will not erupt the moment we leave. Their government will not have a monopoly on violence but it will remain the strongest force there. The insurgency will be able to inflict harm through bombings for years yet before finally dying out but as a political force it is spent and the Sunni-Shi'ite conflict will lead to nothing worse than self-imposed residential segregation. Expected cautious Democratic backpedalling from the antiwar Left as it becomes belatedly clear to America through the prism of its defeatist mainstream media that progress has been made. |
| Posted by: Jomomp Hupusotch7840 2007-03-07 08:15 |