The Beginning Of The Surge

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The Surge has begun:

The U.S. military, which just days ago completed its latest troop buildup in Iraq, has launched a large offensive operation in several al-Qaida strongholds around Baghdad, the top U.S. commander said Saturday.

Gen. David Petraeus said the operation began in the last 24 hours and will put forces into key areas surrounding Baghdad that, according to intelligence, al-Qaida is using to base some of its car bomb operations.

Petraeus, who met with Defense Secretary Robert Gates at a morning breakfast, also said that he doesn’t have all the American troops he might want, but he knows he’s got all he’s going to get.

"There’s never been a military commander in history who wouldn’t like to have more of something or other – that characterizes all of us here," he told reporters traveling with Gates. "The fact is frankly that we have all that our country is going to provide us in terms of combat forces. That is really it right now."

He said the buildup of nearly 30,000 additional forces that has just been completed allowed him to launch the latest assault. The move, he said, is allowing him to send operations for the first time into "a number of areas around Baghdad, in particular to go into areas that were sanctuaries in the past of al-Qaida."

He said: "Our job now, frankly, along with the job of our Iraqi counterparts … is to do everything that we can with the additional forces that we have."

But Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi already declared it a failure….didn’t the General get the email?

Al-Qaeda is a very ineffective fighting force.  They only manage a suicide bomber here, an IED there.  They are being captured and killed at a massive rate, especially if you look at the US death rate vs theirs.  The locals are turning against them.  All in all a vastly inferior enemy….but.  And it’s a big but.  If the American people lose the will to see this thing through then we will lose against this inferior enemy.

Thankfully Bush is a true leader.  One who hasn’t switched positions like the wind when the latest opinion poll comes out.  He understands this is going to be a decades long war to bring Islam out of the middle ages.  For every step forward there will be two steps back, and believe me, the Democrats and the MSM will highlight each and every step backwards while ignoring the step forward.

Of course this whole discussion is mute if a Democrat gets into office.  We will pack up and go home, leaving Iraq to al-Qaeda and begin to twiddle our thumbs as we wait the next attack on our shores.

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