Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Yea, We're Losing in Iraq
Within the last few days, American Special Forces in Iraq received a tip regarding Abu Azzam, an important lieutenant to Abu Masab al Zarqawi and the top money man for al Qaeda in Iraq. (I know, I know, the terrorists are too stupid to realize that there is no connection between al Qaeda and Iraq). The troops went to pick Azzam up but he fired first and was killed in return fire.
Even Knight Ridder can't spin the story all negative.
It's good that we're getting tips sufficiently fresh to lead to this sort of operation and it's certainly possible that we captured documents that will lead to more operations and, we hope, captures.
Now, are the terrorists in Iraq, what the left calls insurgents, co-ordinating attacks on our Brigadiers and Colonels? Are they capturing any Americans? Or are they hiding like worms and attacking civilians because they don't shoot back? Merely to ask these questions is to make any lefty pronouncement that we've already lost the war in Iraq seem rather silly.
UPDATE: Two more stories on the good news (both tempered with reports of continued suicide bombings). Now Azzam is called the number 2 guy of the organization called al Qaeda in Iraq and the one in charge of terroritst operations in Baghdad. The Constitutional referendum is three weeks away and Saddam's trial starts just days after that historic vote. I love the smell of purple permanent ink in the morning. It smells like...victory.
Even Knight Ridder can't spin the story all negative.
It's good that we're getting tips sufficiently fresh to lead to this sort of operation and it's certainly possible that we captured documents that will lead to more operations and, we hope, captures.
Now, are the terrorists in Iraq, what the left calls insurgents, co-ordinating attacks on our Brigadiers and Colonels? Are they capturing any Americans? Or are they hiding like worms and attacking civilians because they don't shoot back? Merely to ask these questions is to make any lefty pronouncement that we've already lost the war in Iraq seem rather silly.
UPDATE: Two more stories on the good news (both tempered with reports of continued suicide bombings). Now Azzam is called the number 2 guy of the organization called al Qaeda in Iraq and the one in charge of terroritst operations in Baghdad. The Constitutional referendum is three weeks away and Saddam's trial starts just days after that historic vote. I love the smell of purple permanent ink in the morning. It smells like...victory.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:03 AM 
