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The panicked Kossack pins the entire war, success or failure, on what Moqtada al-Sadr does or doesn’t do. Not US action or politics. Not even the actions of al Qaeda or the Iranians or the Iraqi government. Just the mullah Atari.

I think this talking point comes directly from Jennifer Loven of AwtP.

It was amazing to see her article in which the US military was entirely ignored in favor of what Mookie did or did not do.

If for some reason in the GWOT we have to step up in another place for a conflict they will already have that big taint on their recent actions and they will be much less effective in trying to counter it.

All we will have to do is rerun tapes of Regan saying “there you go again”.

I do keep trying, but the only success that I have had is that I can now run faster than the guy with the butterfly net!

MB4 on November 5, 2007 at 4:02 PM

Run Embee…ruuun.

And I have no problem at all questioning their patriotism. They don’t have the faintest idea what that means.

Precisely right, my friend….and I’d pay to watch the little smoke rings pop out of their ears when they realize that.

PatrickS on November 5, 2007 at 8:17 PM

Hell the dummycrats could probably finance Hillarycare and then some on what most republicans would be will to pay to watch that happen.

That they weren’t just wrong about Iraq, but that they have been wrong for 40 years is what is scaring the living crap out of them.

doriangrey on November 5, 2007 at 6:43 PM

Precisely right, my friend….and I’d pay to watch the little smoke rings pop out of their ears when they realize that.

Cindy Sheehan couldnt be reached for comment

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William Amos on November 5, 2007 at 2:20 PM

Is it just me or does Saint Cindy appear to be enjoying the way that the cop is holding her leg?

thus the Iraqi population gets to appreciate a “normal” existence. They won’t take too kindly to Mr. Bad Teeth coming back to raise hell.
Anyone banking on some great Sadr increase in effectiveness the longer he stays quiet are smoking some grade A crack.

Check out the caption in the AP photo. Shaykh Ahmed is misidentified as “Chair of the Iraq Awakening Council.”

An unintended admission by the Associated Press that the Anbar Awakening has become the Iraq Awakening.

My bad. Nix that. I got to thinking that the AP likely printed information supplied by the State Dept.

Turns out, there is such a thing as the Iraq Awakening Council. And It predates the Anbar Awakening.

8 August 2007:

The efforts of the American administration have been successful with the assistance of some Arab intelligence apparatuses, specifically those of Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The Jordanian capital Amman hosted a conference for Anbar tribes who had been subjected to intimidations by Al-Qaeda. These shaykhs, headed by Osama Jadan and before him Sabah Sattam Al-Kaoud, who later were both killed, established the Iraq Awakening Conference, from which the idea of the Anbar Salvation Council grew, a coalition of many tribes, most of them belong to the Dulaim confederation led by Abdul Sattar Abu Risheh, in mid-September 2006.

There’s good reason AQI wanted Osama Jadan dead.

16 June 2006:

Osama al-Jadan, a leader of Anbar’s Kerabilah tribe, told Radio Sawa’s Adil Awadh on April 28 that Zarqawi was surrounded by “the murderers – whose hands are drenched in the blood of Iraq – of the tyrant Saddam.” Jadan started out leading fighters against “the occupiers,” then, after the January 5 massacre of 58 police recruits in Ramadi, began working with the Iraqi government. In the radio interview, he said, “We expelled him [Zarqawi] from Anbar,” and promised Iraqis to “get him in a matter of weeks.” Jadan himself was killed in Baghdad’s Mansour district on May 28.

And Sheikh Sattam Kaoud (Gaood) was a former senior Baath official and close friend of Saddam Hussein. One of the 55 most-wanted members of Saddam’s regime, he was released from US detention in Dec. 2005 and in the spring of 2006 helped secure the release of CSM reporter Jill Carroll by acting as a middleman between Carroll’s parents and her kidnappers.

They’re trapped. And I think some of them are starting to see it.

Professor Blather on November 5, 2007 at 2:40 PM

Oh it’s sooooo much worse than that. See the deal is, that once it becomes inescapably obvious that GWB was right not only will the lib’s be foreced to recognize that they were wrong about Iraq, but that they were also wrong and traitorous about Vietnam. Why you might ask/ Because they insisted on drawing parallels between Iraq and Vietnam.

Once their strategy of withdrawal and retreat is proven wrong in Iraq it will become inescapably obvious that it was also wrong in Vietnam, and this more than anything is what is troubling them now. That they weren’t just wrong about Iraq, but that they have been wrong for 40 years is what is scaring the living crap out of them.

Because I remember 1983 pretty well. I remember “The Day After” on television, and the marches in Europe that made anti-Bush sentiment seem tame. I remember the vows that Reagan was the anti-Christ, that he’d end the world.

And sure enough, 30 years later much of that seems forgotten. A lot of liberals have re-written their own history.

I guess the simple reality is that people grow up and get older. So that you’re right – the sad fools today that are wishing for our defeat will never really be held responsible. In 30 years, they’ll be telling their kids that George Bush wasn’t so bad … while their kids burn flags and denounce some new American president.

Professor Blather on November 5, 2007 at 4:12 PM

Penn, of Penn and Teller, has a great quote relating to what you wrote. To paraphrase; Every generation has a vastly better life than the one before it, but its inhabitants always think the world is getting worse.

I depend on Daily Kos and especiallly writers like you to provide this important perspective on the news. I now instinctually don’t trust the MSM, but it really helps to have accurate information to know why!

Despite journalists donating to Democrats 9 to 1 over Republicans and an overwhelming majority of the American public thinking the media has a liberal bias, this guy, and lots of other koz kids, think the media tilts right.

I did…good, just making sure everyone understands that those that are there and have been since before the surge and since it began, are quite adamant that the surge has allowed for the majority of progress we have been seeing….

A front page blogger for Daily Kos admits that the drop in violence in Iraq is causing him and other……

This is the ugly truth of modern neo-liberalism and its anti-Bush fundamentalism.

They’ve painted themselves into an inescapable rhetorical and logical corner. For them to be proven right, America must fail, more people must die, Iraq must grow more chaotic, and the terrorists must gain victories.

They’re in a horrible position. If, in 20 years, Iraq is a peaceful democracy (or what passes for a peaceful democracy in the Middle East), if terrorism has been quelled … then Bush will have been proven right. And they’ll look awfully silly. (Almost as bad as they’re going to look when the whole global warming kerfluffle collapses …)

So what do liberals do? They’re absolutely trapped by their own short-sightedness. What do they hope for? They don’t dare openly hope for American deaths (of course, they do hope for just that, and sometimes they do it openly).

It’s the ultimate irony of liberalism. If George Bush could wave a wand and give liberals everything they say they want, the Democrat Party would vanish in a heartbeat.

Good news for America is bad for liberals. Peace harms the liberal movement. Environmental progress – real progress – weakens their political power. Racial harmony weakens the race-baiters.

They’re trapped. And I think some of them are starting to see it.

Professor Blather on November 5, 2007 at 2:40 PM

They met last week with Bush, Rice and Gates.

Photo: Secretary Rice with the Anbaris

Check out the caption in the AP photo. Shaykh Ahmed is misidentified as “Chair of the Iraq Awakening Council.”

An unintended admission by the Associated Press that the Anbar Awakening has become the Iraq Awakening.

Click through that post to see what the Anbaris think of Joe Biden’s Iraq partition plan.