BIDEN TAKES CREDIT FOR IRAQ SUCCESS

Not unbelievable...Expected. Look at him fight the notion of success every step of the way. He invested his political future on defeat in Iraq. We won. And now Joe's defeatist chickens are coming home to roost.

OBAMA PLAYS THE CLOWN: SAYS IRAQ SURGE WAS A FAILURE

A presidential hopeful who wants to steal defeat from the jaws of victory. Unbelievably stupid and naive. First he says the surge wouldn't work and would only make things worse, now he says of course it's going to work.



But this was Obama in January, 2008 saying the surge worked and the democrats were responsible:

What we have to do is to begin a phased redeployment to send a clear signal to the Iraqi government that we are not going to be there in perpetuity. Now, it will — we should be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in. I welcome the genuine reductions of violence that have taken place, although I would point out that much of that violence has been reduced because there was an agreement with tribes in Anbar province — Sunni tribes — who started to see, after the Democrats were elected in 2006, you know what, the Americans may be leaving soon, and we are going to be left very vulnerable to the Shi'as. We should start negotiating now. That's how you change behavior.

So basically, the way to get your allies to do things, is to hang their ass out to dry? Good lord people. This guy will spin things any way he needs to pretend he wasn't wrong.

For your review:

THE ANATOMY OF A FLIP FLOP: OBAMA SQUIRMS LIKE A WORM ON IRAQ WAR POLICY

OBAMA'S CRACK STAFF TRIES TO REMOVE ALL CRITICISM OF IRAQ SURGE FROM ITS WEBSITE

Earlier today the New York Times reported:

Barack Obama's campaign scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq, the Daily News has learned.

The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page, which had described the surge as a "problem" that had barely reduced violence.

"The surge is not working," Obama's old plan stated, citing a lack of Iraqi political cooperation but crediting Sunni sheiks - not U.S. military muscle - for quelling violence in Anbar Province.

It seems, however, that Obama's crack staff has left some residue behind. Obama's site still has this Iraq "civil war" comment on his site:

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OBAMA THEN AND NOW: WE'RE OUT...WE'RE IN

Obama then. He is serious about ending the war.



Obama now. He is serious about ending the war. Unless we're winning.



I believe the words you're looking for Obama are "I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about".

IRAQI GOVERNMENT OUTPERFORMED U.S. CONGRESS LAST YEAR

I heard that.

DEMOCRAT REPRESENTATIVE: WE ENCOURAGED THE SURGE, WHICH RESULTED IN VICTORY, AND YOU'RE WELCOME

Wow! Rep. Kanjorski is at it again. Amazing that roughly half the country is so retarded as to believe this stuff.



Last week, Kanjorski admitted the Democrats lied about the Iraq war.

WHY DOES NANCY PELOSI HATE AMERICA?

This has to be one of the more disgusting political machinations you will see. But, I should say, not at all unusual anymore and by no means a surprise. After accidentally admitting that the troop surge in Iraq is working, the dragon lady Nany Pelosi scrambled to come up with a reason for success that was related to America, its people, or its soldiers in combat. Here's what she came up with:

Asked if she saw any evidence of the surge’s positive impact on her May 17 trip to Iraq she responded:

Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn’t happen. Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians.

The mental illness that has overtaken the left is nothing short of that which swept the nazis to power in Germany. There is no difference. Shame on them. And shame on you for just standing by and watching.

MICHAEL YON: LET'S SURGE SOME MORE

Fascinating news coming from Iraq:

I may well have spent more time embedded with combat units in Iraq than any other journalist alive. I have seen this war – and our part in it – at its brutal worst. And I say the transformation over the last 14 months is little short of miraculous.

The change goes far beyond the statistical decline in casualties or incidents of violence. A young Iraqi translator, wounded in battle and fearing death, asked an American commander to bury his heart in America. Iraqi special forces units took to the streets to track down terrorists who killed American soldiers. The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq, and many Iraqi boys dream of becoming American soldiers. Yes, young Iraqi boys know about "GoArmy.com."

Iraqis came to respect American soldiers as warriors who would protect them from terror gangs. But Iraqis also discovered that these great warriors are even happier helping rebuild a clinic, school or a neighborhood. They learned that the American soldier is not only the most dangerous enemy in the world, but one of the best friends a neighborhood can have.

Some people charge that we have merely "rented" the Sunni tribesmen, the former insurgents who now fight by our side. This implies that because we pay these people, their loyalty must be for sale to the highest bidder. But as Gen. Petraeus demonstrated in Nineveh province in 2003 to 2004, many of the Iraqis who filled the ranks of the Sunni insurgency from 2003 into 2007 could have been working with us all along, had we treated them intelligently and respectfully. In Nineveh in 2003, under then Maj. Gen. Petraeus's leadership, these men – many of them veterans of the Iraqi army – played a crucial role in restoring civil order. Yet due to excessive de-Baathification and the administration's attempt to marginalize powerful tribal sheiks in Anbar and other provinces – including men even Saddam dared not ignore – we transformed potential partners into dreaded enemies in less than a year.

Then al Qaeda in Iraq, which helped fund and tried to control the Sunni insurgency for its own ends, raped too many women and boys, cut off too many heads, and brought drugs into too many neighborhoods. By outraging the tribes, it gave birth to the Sunni "awakening." We – and Iraq – got a second chance. Powerful tribes in Anbar province cooperate with us now because they came to see al Qaeda for what it is – and to see Americans for what we truly are.

Michael Yon is author of the just-published "Moment of Truth in Iraq" (Richard Vigilante Books). He has been reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan since December 2004.

Let's Surge Some More

I advise all of you to read as much of Yon's stuff as you can. No journalist knows more about the situation in Iraq.