NYT Forced to Admit the Obvious: Surge is a Success, Iraq War Won…..

Suck a dick, Harry Reid…..

Let’s go back and consider how the world looked in the winter of 2006-2007. Iraq was in free fall, with horrific massacres and ethnic cleansing that sent a steady stream of bad news across the world media. The American public delivered a stunning electoral judgment against the Iraq war, the Republican Party and President Bush.

Democratic leaders like Senator Harry Reid considered the war lost. Barack Obama called for a U.S. withdrawal starting in the spring of 2007, while Senator Reid offered legislation calling for a complete U.S. pullback by March 2008.

.....The cocksure war supporters learned this humbling lesson during the dark days of 2006. And now the cocksure surge opponents, drunk on their own vindication, will get to enjoy their season of humility. They have already gone through the stages of intellectual denial. First, they simply disbelieved that the surge and the Petraeus strategy was doing any good. Then they accused people who noticed progress in Iraq of duplicity and derangement. Then they acknowledged military, but not political, progress. Lately they have skipped over to the argument that Iraq is progressing so well that the U.S. forces can quickly come home.

But before long, the more honest among the surge opponents will concede that Bush, that supposed dolt, actually got one right. Some brave souls might even concede that if the U.S. had withdrawn in the depths of the chaos, the world would be in worse shape today.

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Comments

[Baker]

This article earns my nomination for the best use of the word "cocksure" for 2008.

[Harry Schell]

I would say that it is "the less dishonest" of the anti-war BDS groupies that are admitting they were wrong, not the more honest.

Reid et. al. are dishonest beyond redemption. Couldn't pass a polygraph if he was dead.

[Elric66]

When will Democrats admit to the American people they were wrong? I know never but be nice if conservatives would ask them to own up for their demands we surrender.

[ZIP]

This article earns my nomination for the best use of the word "cocksure" for 2008.

Posted by: Baker | June 24, 2008 at 01:14 PM

I'll admit, that made me laught my ass off....