Success in Iraq
Posted at 11:17am on Mar. 30, 2008 Iraqi Govt. Forces Squish Sadr: The LA Times Tells Us Why That's Bad
whenever there is good news in Iraq, there must be a bad side, after all...
By haystack
Reuters tells us this morning that Mookie has ordered his goons to stand down. This news should be blazing around the world this morning:
Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his armed followers on Sunday to leave the streets and stop battling government forces in Basra and other southern towns.
"Because of the religious responsibility, and to stop Iraqi blood being shed, and to maintain the unity of Iraq and to put an end to this sedition that the occupiers and their followers want to spread among the Iraqi people, we call for an end to armed appearances in Basra and all other provinces," Sadr said in a statement given to journalists by his aides.
"Anyone carrying a weapon and targeting government institutions will not be one of us."
Maliki is starting to get the hang of this "Commander in Chief" thing (with a little help from his friends) and Iraq might actually be headed where President Bush and General Petraeus and John McCain and others have been telling us they were headed for quite some time now; fully self-reliant, able to maintain security for the Iraqi people, and capable of attending to their own affairs.
Full stop...
THEN, we come across this trash from the LA Times trying to make the case that this is bad news:
More below the fold..
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Posted at 8:50pm on Dec. 18, 2007 The Onion Nails It
By Dan McLaughlin
Now that things have been improving for some months, even The Onion notices the trend:
Iraq War No Longer Interesting Enough To Make List Of Year’s Top Stories
Posted at 11:48am on Dec. 9, 2007 Bully For Batiste
By haystack
[note: Moe beat me to the front pages with this story so I'll relegate myself to the diaries...I need to get up PRETTY early in the morning to scoop Mr. Lane!]
Via The Corner we learn that Maj. Gen. Batiste (Ret.) has co-authored a piece in the Washington Post along with Lt. Pete Hegseth, executive director of Vets for Freedom. They speak very highly of Gen. Petraeus' efforts in Iraq, and the undeniable progress being made there by the US Military and the now-infamous "surge"...and I say it's a sure sign we really ARE getting the job done when a former anti-war Vet steps up and admits it himself. Well Done Maj. Gen. Batiste!
From the Corner:
As a board member of VoteVets.org, Maj. Gen. Batiste (Ret.) has been one of the most authoritative voices in the anti-war movement.
But in the Washington Post on Saturday he has an op-ed (flagged on the NRO Web Briefing), under a shared byline with Lt. Pete Hegseth, executive director of Vets for Freedom, a group that strongly supports the Petraeus mission of defeating al-Qaeda and the Iranian backed militias in Iraq.
Does this suggest a shift in Batiste’s thinking? In the I.D. beneath the piece, there is no mention of Batiste’s affiliation with VoteVets.org – and I notice his name has been removed from the VoteVets.org website as well.
If Batiste has indeed broken with VoteVets.org that is news – but perhaps no surprise. VoteVets.org is an extremist group – a MoveOn.org clone – that favors America’s defeat and humiliation in Iraq, seeking both ideological and partisan benefits. If Batiste has recognized this and was repelled by it, bully for him.
Let's see what they have to say in the WaPo piece below the fold...
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