Understanding The Obvious

And another Democrat has finally come to grips with success.  Against their will, of course.  But at least this one is admitting it: (h/t Tigerhawk)

Visiting Iraq for the first time, Rep. Shelley Berkley said Monday
the U.S. military and Iraqi police have made more progress than she
expected in quelling violence that had beset portions of the country.

Berkley
delivered a generally upbeat report on Iraq in the midst of a weeklong
trip to the Middle East with a half-dozen other members of Congress.

The
Las Vegas Democrat has been a war critic and had disapproved of the
troop “surge” when President Bush announced it early this year on the
recommendation of Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in
Iraq.

But on Monday she acknowledged the infusion of 28,500 U.S.
soldiers had a positive impact. The visiting delegation was given a
tour of Ramadi, a city about 70 miles west of Baghdad that largely has
been cleansed of insurgents.

“This is a difference from what I
anticipated,” Berkley said. “I did not anticipate the progress and the
extraordinary morale of our troops.

“They believe they are
turning the corner,” Berkley said. “Nobody is doing a victory lap at
this point, but the reality is the military has done an extraordinary
job.”

Berkley’s praise extended to the Iraqi police who are assisting U.S. troops in patrolling neighborhoods.

“For
years we had heard they weren’t ready to take over, but at this point
there is such a significant difference,” Berkley said. “The Iraqis are
truly stepping up to the plate and that accounts for the lowering of
violence.

“Wherever you go, Iraqis and our American servicemen
are telling us that the difference is dramatic,” Berkley said. “The
violence is down 60 percent from last year.”

Anyone want to take a guess WHY she didn’t anticipate this progress?  It wouldn’t be our MSM and the constant drumbeat of doom and gloom from the lefty organizations ie. MoveOn and the like would it?

If you had been an honest observer you would have understood this progress and success months ago, as we did here at FA and many other blogs across the blogosphere.  Milblogs have been reporting all this long ago.  But they stubbornly refused to believe the obvious.

The MSM has this defeat so ingrained into their being that the premier lefty rag, Time Magazine, refused to name the architect of this victory their person of the year.   General Petreaus deserved that title, but instead they named a man known for dismantling free enterprise as their guy.

This is the mindset we fight against.