Wasting Time With Alex

Want to know why the donkeys are no longer talking about Iraq?

If you have been paying attention, you know that the MSM has had a tough time reporting their usual negative spin out of Iraq. It has gotten so desperate for the people that want the US to lose, that they have had to resort to complaining about those that bury the dead losing work as the violence drops. But the real deal is Osama’s recent message, nothing but a serious whine fest that reminds you of the democrats in Congress, and which blames everyone but themselves & their evil ways for their failure. Of course the left has moved the goal posts big-time now, and while every little blow up is exaggerated in order to keep the illusion of chaos alive, their new talking points are that the Iraqi government, and for that matter the Iraqi people and system itself, are too corrupt to ever work (guess they can’t see a corrupt donkey Congress works sometimes). Frankly I think fixing 4 millennia of tribalism and the accompanying problems will be a lot harder than pounding idiots with a death wish into the ground, but if we want to bring order to the ME we will have to do this.

Oh, and I will be honest and admit that had the democrats not used Iraq as a political football in 2006 - do not for a second however believe they wanted a change of course that would lead to an American victory while a republican was in the WH, because what they wanted was for us to lose that fight and have the same kind of anti-military & anti-American resurgence that the country experienced after they lost us Vietnam too - that we would not have had the changes that have led us in the right direction. So unlike their usual MO where they do something they claim is a good thing and then stick us with something disastrous - from the 5 decade old 1.5 trillion dollars wasted “War on poverty” to other idiotic ideas where we reward women that keep popping out kids they can’t take care of or pay people that do not want to work to keep democrats elected - this time they tried to stick it to us hard and got a good result, albeit unintentionally, out of the whole deal. I am sure it will be a long time before they do something that actually is of value like this again, though. Soon, like after Reagan’s policies collapsed the USSR, most of these people will be claiming they were on the right side about Iraq too like they did about the Cold War. Unfortunately for them they can not fool us all, and some will know better.

We still have a long way to go in Iraq, and for that matter in the GWoT which seems destined to expand into Iran and Syria, but we are moving things in the right direction. Of course we should not expect the usual suspects to give credit where it is due. Stupid people can’t get past their cases of BDS. But Iraq is off the table for the 2008 elections. Even the usual bull about how we spent money in Iraq but not on chidlren, the victims of some natural disaster, or some other such socialist weasel cry fest are not making headways with the sane anymore. I wonder if Harry Reid will now correct his previous statement about the Iraq war. Nah, I know better.