Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Thank Hashem for Joe Lieberman.


Thank Hashem for Joe Lieberman. He's back from Iraq and has written a major piece published in the Wall Street Journal with his observations. Essentially, he's convinced that President Bush's policy in Iraq is a success! Finally, there's a liberal politician honest enough to visit the scene in Iraq and come home with the truth. He's also leveling a warning directly at the blame Bush and run crowd...

I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood--unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn.
He's seen enough to insist that we're in the winning stretch of this struggle in Iraq against terror, chaos and defeat...

Here is an ironic finding I brought back from Iraq. While U.S. public opinion polls show serious declines in support for the war and increasing pessimism about how it will end, polls conducted by Iraqis for Iraqi universities show increasing optimism. Two-thirds say they are better off than they were under Saddam, and a resounding 82% are confident their lives in Iraq will be better a year from now than they are today. What a colossal mistake it would be for America's bipartisan political leadership to choose this moment in history to lose its will and, in the famous phrase, to seize defeat from the jaws of the coming victory.

The leaders of America's military and diplomatic forces in Iraq, Gen. George Casey and Ambassador Zal Khalilzad, have a clear and compelling vision of our mission there. It is to create the environment in which Iraqi democracy, security and prosperity can take hold and the Iraqis themselves can defend their political progress against those 10,000 terrorists who would take it from them.

Why are we not reading more about this breathtaking eyewitness report by a respected Senator? Could it be that it doesn't fit into the coming election strategy of defeatist Democrats? A crowd willing to lie to the public in order to advance their bankrupt agenda of defeat and appeasement? Maybe we should return to those thrilling days of yesteryear when we only did what the French approved of. No damned way.

It takes a subscription to read the whole thing, but, surely you can find a link to the article somewhere.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Joe sounded incoherent on Don Imus this AM. He could not defend any of his assertions.

He said that Nothern Iraq was as calm as Nothern California.

Nobody believes that...

woundedduck said...

Correction: Joe Lieberman is not liberal. Bush asked Joe to jump, and the Senator asked how high, thus, the WSJ article. I think Americans--because there are plenty of blue and red staters who agree that the war is going quite badly--might be convinced the war has been a success if mulitple bombings weren't taking place daily in Iraq's national capital. That is a bad sign, indeed.