Are Pelosi and Reid on suicide watch?

Posted on July 30, 2007

Better lay in a stock of anti depressant drugs along with the crying towels and start taking away shoe strings and belts from the cut and run crowd!

The poor Dems must be feeling like their whole world has turned upside down - like the north and south poles have swapped places. Not only do two Brookings Institute analysts write a very positive Op ED about post surge Iraq, but the NY Times published it!

In the immortal words of the Wicked Witch of the West “Ohhh…What a world! What a world!”

Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.

After the furnace-like heat, the first thing you notice when you land in Baghdad is the morale of our troops. In previous trips to Iraq we often found American troops angry and frustrated — many sensed they had the wrong strategy, were using the wrong tactics and were risking their lives in pursuit of an approach that could not work.

Today, morale is high. The soldiers and marines told us they feel that they now have a superb commander in Gen. David Petraeus; they are confident in his strategy, they see real results, and they feel now they have the numbers needed to make a real difference.

Gen. David Petraeus

Everywhere, Army and Marine units were focused on securing the Iraqi population, working with Iraqi security units, creating new political and economic arrangements at the local level and providing basic services — electricity, fuel, clean water and sanitation — to the people. Yet in each place, operations had been appropriately tailored to the specific needs of the community. As a result, civilian fatality rates are down roughly a third since the surge began — though they remain very high, underscoring how much more still needs to be done.

Read the rest of the article, it is worth the time.

That two people, who try very hard to be objective and who in the past have been so critical of the administration, travel to Iraq and report what they witnessed and it is so decidedly positive when Pelosi, Reid and crew are so decidedly negative is just amazing.

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