Liberals in Canada and in the U.S. will shield their eyes from this writing, exactly as their media will and will continue to fail to report on the successes in Iraq, in the media’s hope that repeatedly documenting only the tragic elements and the “costs” will diminish our national resolve in fighting and winning this noble military and political and national security and human rights and freedom and democracy-related effort.
Here’s some highlights from the OpinionJournal.com article, but read the whole thing (a three-minute read).
By JOE LIEBERMAN and LINDSEY GRAHAM
This time Gen. Petraeus returns to Washington having led one of the most remarkably successful military operations in American history. His antiwar critics, meanwhile, face a crisis of credibility – having confidently predicted the failure of the surge, and been proven decidedly wrong.
[Iraq and Its Costs]As late as last September, advocates of retreat insisted that the surge would fail to bring about any meaningful reduction in violence in Iraq. MoveOn.org accused Gen. Petraeus of “cooking the books,” while others claimed that his testimony, offering evidence of early progress, required “the willing suspension of disbelief.”
Gen. Petraeus will be the first to acknowledge that the gains in Iraq have come at a heavy price in blood and treasure. We mourn the loss and pain of the civilians and service members who have been killed and wounded in Iraq, but adamantly believe these losses have served a noble cause.
No one can deny the dramatic improvements in security in Iraq achieved by Gen. Petraeus, the brave troops under his command, and the Iraqi Security Forces. From June 2007 through February 2008, deaths from ethno-sectarian violence in Baghdad have fallen approximately 90%. American casualties have also fallen sharply, down by 70%.
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It is unfortunate that so many opponents of the surge still refuse to acknowledge the gains we have achieved in Iraq. When Gen. Petraeus testifies this week, however, the American people will have a clear choice as we weigh the future of our fight there: between the general who is leading us to victory, and the critics who spent the past year predicting defeat.
CANADIAN CONTENT (sort of)
And this part of that same editorial unwittingly casts a light (or is it a dark, sullen shadow?) on Canadian liberals and even further leftists inasmuch as liberals and their media are deploying the same tactic (which should be seen as nothing less than a war-like strategy—yes, know thy enemy!) here, as the liberals are down south, only here it’s with regard to the even less controversial fight in Afghanistan that Canada is rightly, bravely engaged in, instead of Iraq (where we should also be fully engaged):
…Unable to make the case that the surge has failed, antiwar forces have adopted a new set of talking points, emphasizing the “costs” of our involvement in Iraq, hoping to exploit Americans’ current economic anxieties.
There is no question the war in Iraq – like the Cold War, World War II and every other conflict we have fought in our history – costs money. But as great as the costs of this struggle have been, so too are the dividends to our national security from a successful outcome, with a functioning, representative Iraqi government and a stabilized Middle East. The costs of abandoning Iraq to our enemies, conversely, would be enormous, not only in dollars, but in human lives and in the security and freedom of our nation.
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