Ruh-Roh... Iraq Reaches 15 of 18 Benchmarks ...Update: Dems say they would have brought "Solid Progress" by retreating!!
UPDATED BELOW--
The success in Iraq is real and the gains have been phenomenal.
Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (L) talks to residents in a market during his visit to Amara, 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad, June 23, 2008. Maliki pledged to maintain law and order in the southern city of Amara on Monday, days after a security crackdown that the movement of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said unfairly targeted them. (REUTERS)
Of course, the Associated Press had to put their nasty spin on this wonderful news today...
Because, 5 years is just way to long to build a functioning democracy in the Middle East from a dangerous terror-coddling regime.
The AP reported:
No matter who is elected president in November, his foreign policy team will have to deal with one of the most frustrating realities in Iraq: the slow pace with which the government in Baghdad operates.Unreal!
Iraq's political and military success is considered vital to U.S. interests, whether troops stay or go. And while the Iraqi government has made measurable progress in recent months, the pace at which it's done so has been achingly slow.
The White House sees the progress in a particularly positive light, declaring in a new assessment to Congress that Iraq's efforts on 15 of 18 benchmarks are "satisfactory" — almost twice of what it determined to be the case a year ago. The May 2008 report card, obtained by the Associated Press, determines that only two of the benchmarks — enacting and implementing laws to disarm militias and distribute oil revenues — are unsatisfactory.
In the past 12 months, since the White House released its first formal assessment of Iraq's military and political progress, Baghdad politicians have reached several new agreements seen as critical to easing sectarian tensions.
They have passed, for example, legislation that grants amnesty for some prisoners and allows former members of Saddam Hussein's political party to recover lost jobs or pensions. They also determined that provincial elections would be held by Oct. 1.
But for every small step forward, Iraq has several more giant steps to take before victory can be declared on any one issue.
What a trashy report. It's no wonder Americans do not understand thay we are winning in Iraq. Even the good news is so slanted you don't know what the heck your reading.
More good news...
Iraqi officials will take over security responsibility of two more provinces.
Already, the Iraqi democracy is in charge of 9 of its 18 provinces.
The Democratic government of Iraq will take over responsibility of al-Anbar, a province once reported as lost, and Qadisiya (Diwaniya) Province in the coming days. Severe sandstorms prevented the transfer earlier this week.
Gulf 2000 Map
...Look for the pending flip-flop.
Abe Greenwald at Pajamas Media reported on the benchmark success in June.
UPDATE: How did I miss this?
From the AP article:
Democrats also say more solid progress could have been made had the administration starting pulling troops out sooner.Of course!
The surrender monkeys have convinced themselves that declaring defeat and handing Iraq over to Al-Qaeda and Iran would have brought this same kind of success.
What complete bullsh*t!
UPDATE 2: MNF-Iraq reported- "The enemy in the eastern portion of Iraq’s Anbar province has been neutralized, the coalition commander in the area said June 30."
posted by Gateway Pundit at 7/01/2008 12:53:00 PM
9 Comments:
Someone needs to remind them of how long US forces have occupied Germany or Japan after the war. Or maybe that it took until the 70s for Okianwa to be returned to Japan.
Dumbasses, what do they expect? Of course, Bambi will build a working democracy within a day, right?
Bleeeeeeeh...
Someone needs to remind them of how long US forces have occupied Germany or Japan after the war. Or maybe that it took until the 70s for Okianwa to be returned to Japan.
Someone needs to remind you that our armed forces weren't being fired upon and snipered at and IED'd in those countries after the war.
Also, for your information, Japan attacked us in Pearl Harbor, and they were part of the Axis, so we in turn went to war with them and therefore, Germany.
IRAQ DID NOT ATTACK US.
We invaded them because of crappy intelligence, planted by our friends in foreign places to make the case for Bush and the neocons.
Google Michael Ledeen.
Actually, Germany declared war on us first.
And, IRAQ WAS IN GROSS VIOLATION OF THE UN CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENTS!!
Therefore, we didn't attack Iraq, we merely re-instated the effort following Iraq's attack on Kuwait.
I know you'd like to forget that, but to do so you'd have to go all Obama on the UN and toss it under the bus.
Oh, and the crappy intelligence (most of which has recently been shown to be pretty accurate) dated to the Clinton Administration.
Google Jamie Gorelick.
Nice try, but no cigar. Thanks for playing, though.
Oh, I loved the part of the article that notes how frustrated the Iraqis are by "the slow pace with which the government in Baghdad operates".
Someone give the AP a history book. Democratic governments move slowly. That's what they're made to do. They've had a government that moved quickly. It moved quickly to commit genocide. it moves quickly to set up torture chambers where hands were cut off and rapes were a daily occurrence. It moved quickly to cause the two worst man-made ecological disasters in the history of the planet.
I'm sure they're eager to get back to some fast-moving government all right.
KS,
Your leftist gurgling is redundant drivel talking points with little factual relevance.
We were at war with Iraq since the first Gulf War after Iraq invaded Kuwait. The war never ended if you paid any attention to details as Dave stated.
Saddam attempted to asassinate a sitting American President; Bush 1 as well and he attacked our pilots daily.
He broke every single agreement brokered by UN, Kuwait, UK, and America. This nullifies any Conspiracy nut theory you try to advance. And it makes your argument about continued violence null and void to.
Why don't you google 9/11 truthers since you carry their water.
Provide your own links or take a flying leap. Ledeen is for winning the war in Iraq btw.
Are you?
The Iraqis deserve this opportunity now at Liberty. No different than Europe, Japan, South Korea. And if you want to count stats, just google those wars for American casualties.
By all measures, including casualty rates, this is a success. Time is not the only measuring stick.
I was stationed in S. Korea in the early 90s where we are still technically at a state of war,btw also a UN action with numerous other nations militaries mostly giving token support.In Iraq and Afganistan our allies in those UN or NATO actions have often giving a great deal more than token support including the nations of Japan,Germany and S. Korea where we still maintain large military presences half a century after the fighting ended.
ks for those ignorant of post war fighting in Germany google germany + werewolf.
M. Wilcox
For anti-war leftists, the war with Iraq began when GWB stole the 2000 elections. A sizeable majority and certainly the most belligerant one's, were in elementary school during the 1990s and therefore have absolute no understanding or context of relations with Iraq during the 1990s.
The fact remains, the regime in Iraq was in a state of war against the United States since the first Gulf War. They called U.S. sanctions in the 90s "genocide", they fired on plans patrolling the no-fly zone, they corrupted the sanctions and oil for food program, used leverage to peel off U.S. "allies" (ie. France, Russia), utterly refused to cooperate on disarmament, thumbed their nose at the international community, and were waiting for the day when conditions favored them hitting back at the Great Satan.
Certainly the Saddam Hussein regime received everything they deserved and more. Former President Clinton should've followed through and took them out in 1998. His bad.
KS, you totally and 100%... missed the point. No surprise there, neo-communists never get it. It proves what I think of communism though: you have to be really stupid to follow that retarded idea.
So they weren't IED'd and sniped at? What has that to do with the issue of building a democracy? Nothing.
Apart from that, ever heard of Werwolf? Ever heard of the simple fact that Okinawa, for example, was still not completely pacified even after the battle was over?
Fact is, the US troops stayed in those countries longer than 5 years and progress there took a while, too.
You don't build a working democracy within a year. That's the point.
Germany, Japan, they didn't become democracies because the US pulled out.
But I do agree with the Dhimmocrats on one issue:
"Democrats also say more solid progress could have been made had the administration starting pulling troops out sooner."
I agree, that is... if the goal was to create another islamo-fascist theocracy like in Iran... But... oooopsy, my bad, that's not the goal... How could the Dhimmo-rats miss that little part?
I've said it before, I say it again: if Bambi and the other little weasels in the Democrat party pull out of Iraq now... Iraq will burn. Iran will move in and create another islamo-fascist theocracy, another moosel "divine state". Then the kids, who can now go to school, thanks to the US, will learn only two things: the shitty koran and hatred.
I just love how the Dems show their love for democracy and freedom: By abandoning a fledgling democracy. That's... amazing. So democracy for one side, but none for the others? That's great. Reminds of that "free speech for me, but not for you" that all those anti-war thugs practice all the time.
"in a new assessment to Congress that Iraq's efforts on 15 of 18 benchmarks are 'satisfactory' — almost twice of what it determined to be the case a year ago."
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that phrases such as, "almost twice of what it determined..." demonstrate that the journalists, these days, are at best "C" students and of about the same level of intelligence and experience as the most of us.
Ernie Pyle, they ain't.
So take them with as many grains of salt as you like.
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