Bush’s Real Mission Accomplished

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A U.S soldier shakes the hand of an Iraqi boy during a patrol in Baquba, in Diyala province some 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, October 21, 2008.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Over the weekend, Curt posted a litany of successes going on over in Iraq within just the past week alone.

If not for alternative media and non-mainstream sources, you’d be hard-pressed to hear anything about the continued positive trend in Iraq. It’s not that the information isn’t there and isn’t being covered and reported on by MSM (note the polls cited below are by ABC, BBC, and NHK); it’s just that they aren’t telegraphed as front-page newsworthy items, worth repeating over and over again until it gets hammered into people’s subconscious…..like “Iraq is a failure” and “Iraq is in a civil war” mantras were repeated over and over…

The good news on Iraq IS a big deal. It IS important that it gets talked about and that the positive stories are repeated over and over and over again.

Investor’s Business Daily:

A poll of average Iraqis conducted by ABC News, the BBC and Japan’s NHK shows significant progress on virtually all fronts. Yet, we’ve heard nary a peep about it from anyone.

Some 85% of respondents said their neighborhood security was “good,” vs. 62% a year ago and just 43% in August of 2007. And 52% said security had gotten better in the last year — during the Bush-Petraeus “surge,” which was widely ridiculed at the time as an unnecessary escalation of the Iraq War.

Support for democracy jumped to 64%, a 21-percentage-point gain since 2007, according to a report on CNSNews.com. As for how Iraqis felt about the general state of affairs in Iraq, 58% called it “very good” or “quite good,” up significantly from 43% last year and 22% in 2007.

When asked what their concerns are today, Iraqis sound a lot like Americans: Jobs and prices are at the top of their list — not war, not security, not terrorism.

In short, it sounds like we not only won the war, but the peace as well. And for those who cast a skeptical eye on the idea that any Islamic country could ever be democratized, it turns out the former President Bush is winning that debate too.

With President Obama in the middle of withdrawing troops from Iraq on a schedule that looks suspiciously identical to the one that Bush had in place, it’s safe to say that Obama increasingly sees the wisdom of what his predecessor tried to do in Iraq.

I seriously doubt President Obama actually sees the wisdom of former President Bush’s decisions on Iraq. He doesn’t even admit that he was wrong to oppose the surge, in hindsight. And during his Camp Lejuene speech, he gave the obligatory “thanks to the troops” line; but couldn’t take a moment to give George W. Bush his due; Barack Obama has mesmerized the masses into the belief that he is gracious and capable of rising above partisan politics. But his actions time and time again are proving him to be anything but a man of class and a president of unity who will govern from the center.

And he continues to deceive and continues to play shell-games and set up strawmen arguments with the American public. Yet somehow it’s Bush who lied? Bush who deceived us?

Whatever happens to Iraq from this moment on is in God’s Hands. President Bush did his part; and in the twilight of his presidency, accomplished his final mission: Success and victory in Iraq.

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THE UNDOING OF IRAQ

Don’t worry, it’s on Obama’s ‘to do’ list.

The day will come when people will look back on Iraq as a total success and realize that it was an undertaking that was worth the sacrifice and cost.

And as Obama proves to be a disappointment to more and more of the people who voted for him on an almost daily basis, a renewed appreciation for President George W. Bush and his vision in Iraq are all but certain to follow.

Congrats to the Coalition and to the freedom loving Iraqis, raspberries to Obama and the surrender monkey democraps (and no calling the dems or Obama surrender monkeys is not racist).
Obama hates the thought of success in Iraq so much that he waited six weeks to return the government’s congratulatory phone calls. This is hateful since it was the Iraqi Government last August that gave Obama the critical credibility he needed to be taken seriously as a Presidential candidate.

Interesting looking at the major wars from World War I onwards. Both World Wars had Democrat Presidents going into and successfully bringing the enemy to defeat. The Korean War and Vietnam both had Democrat Presidents who brought the US into those conflicts but it was Republican who were in office at the end with decidedly mixed results. The Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq had a Republican in office at the start and at the end where the enemy was defeated.

So it doesn’t seem that Democrats avoid war or are anti-war. Maybe there has been a turn since the seventies.

Although I was in complete opposition to the US invasion of Iraq, and the continued occupation of Iraq by American forces, I must admit that it looks good for the supporters of the invasion. The Iraqis are mostly happy that Saddam is gone. Many are hopeful for the future. They deserve relief from the years of oppression and conflict.

My rational mind says: “Yeah, but what about the suicide bombers that killed dozens of Iraqis in the last week?” Good question. I guess they’ll have to live with it. Some societies suffer from the ravages of meth and heroin users in their midst; others never know when a bomb will blow away innocent bystanders. The Israelis have been living with the fear of suicide bombers for decades.

Another part of me wonders about the dislocated 4.5 million Iraqis, exiled internally or in Jordan and Syria. The Germans agreed to take in 2500 this week. What about the rest? According to some reports, some 50,000 exiled Iraqi women work the sex trade in Damscus. Impoverished Iraqis, driven form their homes await their return in camps in Jordan and Syria.

More than half of the Christians have fled Iraq. Muslim Iraqis considered Christians to be in league with the invading “crusaders”. Their homes have been taken over by enterprising Muslims taking advantage of the situation.

Baghdad has been largely ethnically cleansed. Ten foot high walls separate Sunnis from Shia. What will happen when Iraqis seek to reclaim their homes in their old neighborhoods that walls and the prospect of ethnic terror keep them away from?

What will happen when Arabs and Kurds face each other down over the oil fields near Kirkuk? What will happen if the Kurds appear to achieve hegemony over the oil fields and seek independence form Baghdad? Will the Turks sit idly by as the seeds of an independent Kurdistan take root, serving as a siren call to their own disaffected Kurdish minority?

And where the hell is Al-Sadr? He hates the Americans and the Sunnis. He hates Maliki and his Iran-connected regime. Why is he laying low? How much $ did the Americans give him? Is that where Breamer’s missing $9,000,000,000 went?

The beat goes on.

Bush’s Real Mission Accomplished

We accomplished the mission of destroying the Saddam Hussein regime, it is to early to claim the real mission accomplished. Honestly, I have doubts that democracy will take firm hold, but hope it does.

Blast, you’re right. But it’s now out of Bush’s hands and the baton is now passed to the next president. Decisions President Obama makes on his watch can now influence success or failure in Iraq’s future course.