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for the Iraqis not appreciating freedom. Brave indeed. Every time AQ kill their brothers they are taking a step back. They are proving to be the enemy of the people. Hopefully these acts will drive the Iraqis together and accomplish the elusive unity that they need. Hope and prayers to them.

It is beyond sad that "loyal" opposition, the Democrats and their mainstream media supporters, fail to celebrate, or even acknowledge, the courage of the Iraqis as they fight to overcome terrorism and build a democratic society.

For a country that lacks the will to win, i.e. the United States, the Iraq Parliament bombing is an ominous sign. All we need now is for Walter Cronkite to step up and utter "We've lost the war" again. For the political party that is salivating like Pavlov's dogs at the prospect of the United States', George Bush's, and the Republican Party's defeat in the Iraq war, it is a godsend for the Democrats.
If San Fran Nan had pulled a similar stunt sixty two years ago, she would have found herself very quickly bound, blindfolded, and standing against a stone wall waiting to hear to the command to "fire".
Take a moment to reflect on the historical significance of the Democratic Party's betrayal of this nation's legacy. Abraham Lincoln's contemporaries called him a chimpanzee, an orangutan, and cretin. Lincoln had to endure riots in New York City and washington DC. How many monuments exist today in honor of the name callers and the rioters. Who remembers them?
It's a basic maternal instinct for a mother to grieve over her lost child, something that has been hard wired into the human specie for at least for the last five million years. I'm sure the mothers of the three hundred Spartans lost at Thermopylae also grieved for their lost sons. For a minute, consider what could have happened if a Greek anti Persian War political party had existed at that time acting as a catalyst, a lightning rod, for these mother's grief and others' pacifist sentiments. The World as we know it today would be unrecognizable to its present inhabitants. Those three hundred Spartans are just as dead today as the unknown, uncounted Norman Soldiers who died at Hastings, the six hundred thousand Americans lost in the Civil War, and the four hundred sixty five thousand Americans lost in WWII. Yet, none of those deaths were in vain. Every word in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution and its various interpretations depends for their existence on those deaths. Without them this nation and its heritage would not exist in its present form, if at all.

Freedom is not, and has never been free.

Al Qaeda is an utter failure. Most of their "surge" failed. More importantly, we now see that they can't even try to do anything besides suicide bombings, proves they are a failure. Al Qaeda can't hold territory. They can't run for office. They can't plan their flag anywhere. Instead they cower in caves and sewers, unable to do anything besides use civilians to kill civilians. Al Qaeda can't peacefully persuade anyone to follow them, and in fact the Iraqi Sunnis recently turned against them.

As for the Iraqi Parliament bombing, it mostly failed. The US had intelligence reports before the bombing took place, and increased security. That foiled most of the attack. As an Iraqi minister said at the time, AQ bombed a mostly deserted cafeteria. If they had launched the bomb in the assembly hall a few minutes earlier, they could have taken out most of the parliament. Indeed, it was later reported that unexploded explosives were found and detonated in a controlled blast. In summary, Al Qaeda bombed the wrong room, most of its explosives didn't work, and there were leaks from inside their organization.

It is also important to remember that several ministers of parliament have been arrested and had their houses searched because of being part of terrorist organizations. Large amounts of weapons were found. So it shouldn't be shocking that a terrorist group managed to get something into the parliament.

This shows how the MSM hates America by always twists the truth to try and say America is the loser. Imagine if the US had tried a raid on a terrorist camp, and most of our weapons didn't work, we hit the wrong part of the camp, word of the attack leaked out in advance, and we missed most of the terrorists. The media would quickly say the raid was a failure, which "proves" that the US has lost the war. Yet when our enemy, Al Qaeda, tries an operation that fails in exactly those ways, the media says it was a success, which "proves" that the US has lost the war. This really just shows that the media and the hate-American crowd can't be trusted.

> Today they want us out of Iraq, 6 years ago they wanted us out of Saudi Arabia.

And then what? They just sit in the sewers planting bombs forever, for no purpose?

No, the reality is that Al Qaeda wants what they had in Afghanistan, which we took away from them. They want to be the government of a Caliphate, an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship. That's what they keep trying to build in Iraq, and what we keep knocking down.

They planted their flag in Fallujah, but we tore it down. Al Qaeda had control of Anbar, but now with our help the Iraqi people have liberated themselves.

Measured against any other guerrilla & terrorist movement, AQ is a miserable failure. Mao Tse Tung is considered a success because he took over China, not because of his terrorist attacks. If Mao's enemies still controlled China, while Mao's son or grandson was still leading the "revolution" by launching suicide attacks from the caves of China, would we consider Mao a success?

Mao said that the terrorist "swims in the sea of the People", meaning that the revolutionary needs the support of the people. AQ can't get anyone to support them, so they are resorting to insane, desperate tactics like trying to bomb everyone in Iraq into submission. That never works. A terrorist group can scare some of the people some of the time, but they can't scare everyone all the time.