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on Saturday, March 10, 2007 9:21:23 AM
"The surge isn't working." "We are planning a withdrawal by 2008." This is what the Democrats had to say this week in response to questions about Iraq. Hell, even Daniel Obey got in on the nuttiness, incorrectly believing his little resolution to "make the war nonexistent" woul dchange anything in Iraq. But the changes on the ground is what we're talking about this morning. From Hot Air and the WaPo:
A senior leader of an al Qaeda-linked group has been arrested in Iraq, state television Iraqiya said on Friday.
Iraqiya did not say whether U.S. or Iraqi troops had arrested Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, a body set up by al Qaeda's Iraq wing and other Sunni militant groups in October.
It said he was captured in the Abu Ghraib area, which is on the western outskirts of Baghdad.
U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver said he had no information on the report. Iraqi officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Islamic State of Iraq has claimed a string of major attacks in Iraq, including the kidnapping last week of 18 people, mostly police officers, who were subsequently shot, with photographs of the killings released on the Internet.
Earlier this week a security official said Baghdadi was among dozens of al-Qaeda militants who stormed a jail near the northern city of Mosul, freeing up to 140 prisoners, in one of the biggest prison breaks since the U.S. invasion of 2003.
As if that isn't bad enough for them, read this:
Al-Moussawi said al-Baghdadi admitted his identity, as did another "of the terrorists" who confirmed "that the one in our hands is al-Baghdadi."
LOL. Gotta love the terrorists that point fingers at one another. But seriously, we keep having success after success in the surge, and the Democrats don't want to acknowledge it. We're rolling up little jihadis all across the country, especially Baghdad and it's immediate vicinity, but that's just not good enough for the Democrats.
Their whing, and our succeses, just goes to show the nation that the Democrats refuse to admit that they're wrong, that our new plans are working, and that the president and his advisors were right to put morew troops on the ground, and change the ROEs. Since then, we've driven Sadr from Iraq, sent his Mahdi Army into hiding, or they've just gotten out of Dodge, and we are meeting with a great deal of success with the insurgents in Iraq.
Ah, but this was a lost cause, right? We had "lost the war," right? You know, if it weren't for pessimism on their side of the aisle, this nation might be a bit happier, more productive, and less apt to have our elected leaders suffer from foot-in-mough disease. But, as it is, the Democrats serve as a profound point of comedy for us.
Publius II
UPDATE: According to Allah @ Hot Air, the report is a false alarm. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was not captured by US, coalition or Iraqi forces. This capture was a bust, and likely did not capture anyone significant.
Marcie