Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Iraq after leaving the reported final stop of his European tour, Turkey.  Obama immediately remarked on how much work that remains to be done — which might beg the question why he’s so keen on leaving. 

It was clearly time for “somebody” to RE-COG-NIZE!!!!  Word. But I thought we “took our eye off the ball” – ummm, okay. Whatever you need to tell yourself to help you sleep at night, liberals. Anti-Iraq protestors, aka The Democrat Party, love to act like wars are supposed to be nice and neat, close to no casualties, and always wrapped up within a year or two. And when the war doesn’t meet this unrealistic criteria, they jump on the hatin’ bandwagon like it’s pulling out of the White House driveway at 100 mph. I mean where the fuck do they get these ideas – are they literally living in Never- Never Land? 

This is war not a U.N.-solves-nothing-resolution-negotiation. War is messy, has the high chance of fatalities, and takes time to successfully come to a peaceful end. But sometimes it’s a necessary thing to prevent other dangers in the world. Sometimes when you see the rest of the world getting bullied, the mature thing to do isn’t just idly standing by. Sometimes the right, but hard decision, is to step in and take down oppressive tyrants who commit the fatal gassing and stoning against their own people or allow for rape rooms to continue. I mean, would today’s liberals have been okay with doing nothing about Hitler’s actions had he just contained his vicious, evil acts within the geographic boundaries of Germany?  How low can the DNC get when I’m actually considering some liberals answering yes to that question.  Geez.

If it’s finally the policy of our new administration to support the troops then that’s great. Unfortunately, my hopes aren’t too high because we saw their “respect” for the troops in a different fashion just the other month. Only time will tell.

But even though the trends in decreased violence and prosperity among the Iraqi people has been happening since late 2006, it’s only now that the media is choosing to report on this:

A nationwide poll of Iraqis reveals that “60 percent expect things to get better next year – almost three times as many as a year and a half ago,” McCarthy continued. “Iraqis are slowly discovering they have a future. We flew south to Basra, where 94 percent say their lives are going well. Oil is plentiful here. So is money.”

I’ll give them credit – at least they are finally reporting it.  But it’s a shame that this has been going on for so long and the media refused to acknowledge it. In fact they would go out of there way to report spin Obama’s message of “we didn’t keep our eye on the ball with Iraq.” It’s like when Obama talked about withdrawing combat troops from Iraq during the campaign, but left out the little fact that technically combat troops haven’t been in Iraq since probably 2007. Hey, Unicorn Princess – it was called the SURGE! Look. it. up.

Iraq combat deaths at 6-year low,” USA Today reported on its front page last Wednesday. The story noted that in the first two months of 2009, 15 US soldiers were killed in action – one-fourth the number killed in the same period a year ago, and one-tenth the 2007 toll. The reduction in deaths reflects the reduction in violence, which has plummeted by 90 percent since former President Bush ordered General David Petraeus to implement a new counterinsurgency strategy – the “surge” – in early 2007. Even in northern Iraq, where al-Qaeda is still active, attacks are down by 70 percent.

If the media had devoted even an ounce of the admiration they gave to Obama’s folly of a strategy for Iraq in his NYT op-ed piece, people would start to see the truth about Iraq. It’s unfortunate that Code Pink and their lies about the Iraq war get more playtime in the media than a guy like Michael Yon who’s reporting the truth from the actual battlefield on his own dime. From one of Michael’s entries about the distorted coverage of Iraq during the election:

No thinking person would look at last year’s weather reports to judge whether it will rain today, yet we do something similar with Iraq news. The situation in Iraq has drastically changed, but the inertia of bad news leaves many convinced that the mission has failed beyond recovery, that all Iraqis are engaged in sectarian violence, or are waiting for us to leave so they can crush their neighbors. This view allows our soldiers two possible roles: either “victim caught in the crossfire” or “referee between warring parties.” Neither, rightly, is tolerable to the American or British public.

Today I am in Iraq, back in a war of such strategic consequence that it will affect generations yet unborn—whether or not they want it to. Hiding under the covers will not work, because whether it is good news or bad, whether it is true or untrue, once information is widely circulated, it has such formidable inertia that public opinion seems impervious to the corrective balm of simple and clear facts.

I’m waiting for the day I hear a far-left liberal admit that Bush is responsible for the victory in liberating Iraq. They’ll only say we should have never been there in the first place.

Even now, with a stubbornness born of partisan hostility or political ideology, there are those who cannot bring themselves to utter the words “victory” and “Iraq” in the same sentence. But six years after the war began, it is ending in victory. As in every war, the price of that victory was higher than we would have wished. The price of defeat would have been far higher.

Basically this means they know nothing about history, the Carter Administration and the relationship of terrorism to Iran and the Middle East. I mean THERE IS a reason the mission was called Operation Iraqi Freedom and not Operation Get Rid of Iraq Nukes!!!  They choose instead to state their unsupported case, put on earmuffs and then hum loudly to themselves while kicking their legs in order to avoid you convincing them of the actual truth. But, you may say, it sounds like you are describing a child’s temper-tantrum. Yes, unfortunately it’s the same thing.