"THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:" Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. "There's nothing going on. I'm with the 10th Mountain Division, and about half of the guys I'm with haven't fired their weapons on this tour and they've been here eight months. And the place we're at, South Baghdad, used to be one of the worst places in Iraq. And now there's nothing going on. I've been walking my feet off and haven't seen anything. I've been asking Iraqis, 'do you think the violence will kick up again,' but even the Iraqi journalists are sounding optimistic now and they're usually dour." There's a little bit of violence here and there, but nothing that's a threat to the general situation. Plus, not only the Iraqi Army, but even the National Police are well thought of by the populace. Training from U.S. toops has paid off, he says, in building a rapport. He says the big problem everybody is talking about now is corruption. But hey, we have that here, too. He'll be heading to Afghanistan next week. "Afghanistan is a bad situation, but on Iraq I can't believe things have turned out so well." He thinks that Obama will be able to pull troops out, and send some to Afghanistan, without creating problems in Iraq. Michael will be reporting from Afghanistan soon, and sending back video, so stay tuned. Things aren't going swimmingly there. "No thanks to the Democrats, including Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who tried to keep it from happening. I see that they still can't bring themselves to utter the word 'win' with respect to the war. They continue to talk about 'ending' it. Well, it looks like George Bush did that for them, and he won it as well." Read about it here here and here.
Friday, November 14, 2008
THE WAR IS OVER AND WE HAVE WON!
Michael Yon has is a blogger who has be in bedded with the US Army thought Iraq for years now. He has been published in numerous magazines and has been interviewed countless times. Yon's November 10th posting should be required reading in America.
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The MSM is too busy covering Barry and Hillary to notice. Even if they noticed, they wouldn't care. It simply doesn't fit their agenda.
There's a reason why we no longer hear anything about Iraq. it's almost as if there never was a war now. Thank you MSM once again for your unbiased news coverage. It must pain them knowing that "Bush's" war hasn't gone bad as they had hoped.
I think the terrorists have been keeping an eye on America's election for President. They saw that Obama had a legitimate chance of winning so they have backed off for now. Watch what happens soon after he takes office. I'm fairly certain we will see a resurgence in the insurgency.
There was a subsequent edit correction by the writer about what Yon said. Actually NONE of the soldiers in 10th Mountain there have fired their weapons in 8 months. He misunderstood Mike's phrasing.
Mark;
OK, I'll betcha two bananas and a kumquat that there is no significant upsurge. I think their support and logistics base is shot to hell, and can't be rebuilt.
But I really hope the bet is made moot by Obama's disqualification. He is the 800-lb fast-spawning worm who has penetrated to the core of America's apple. He needs to be cut out and crushed, quickly.
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