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Should There Be Any Doubt...

...perhaps this will shed some light on the subject.

Soon we will see a huge power vacuum in the region. Of course, we are prepared to fill the gap.... -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's diminutive president, on Iraq's future

Any questions? Yes/ No?

"The political power of the occupiers is collapsing rapidly," Ahmadinejad said at a press conference in Tehran, referring to U.S. troops in Iraq. "Soon, we will see a huge power vacuum in the region. Of course, we are prepared to fill the gap, with the help of neighbors and regional friends like Saudi Arabia, and with the help of the Iraqi nation."

Is it any wonder why the enemies of the United States just adore our Democrat Leaders?

Need more?

The Machiavellian read would be that he doesn’t want the U.S. to leave, at least not until he can bleed us some more, and this is his way of trying to buy Bush more time. Hard to believe that Iran digs having 160,000 American troops across the border, though, however easier it makes them to target. Maybe it’s just smoke he’s blowing back towards the west after Sarkozy’s saber-rattling yesterday and the U.S. going after the Revolutionary Guard last week? I’m at a loss. Theories are welcome.

More? To those people with their heads in the sand or so far up another's hinder parts they have been deprived of oxygen, let us spell it out for you. The United States has accomplished in Afghanistan and Iraq and soon Iran what countless others have tried to do and failed...bring a taste of FREEDOM to the area. All others tried the Oppression thing and failed. Iran wants Iraq and it wants Saudi Arabia. The ONLY reason Saudi Arabia are our "friends" is they fear an Iranian Conquest more than they "don't like" us.

Persia has always wanted the entire Middle East. That is why Persia changed its name to Iran...in the tongue of Persia, Iran translates to the Land of the Aryan.

Ring any bells?

A friend states:

In the past couple of months we have seen some major progress in Iraq, thanks to the new leadership of General Petraeus and his counter insurgency strategies, news that has been reluctantly reported on by the MSM and as more gets out there to the American people the support for the war which had been on a steady decline for the past 3 years has suddenly started to rise, slowly but surely in poll after poll. It still is not at the levels we would like to see but given that this is a two month trend turning around from a three year declining trend, the numbers are actually not bad and getting better with each and every poll.

How blind can our politicos be and the trolls they cater and pander to?

U.S. has accused Iran of being behind attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq — a claim the Iraqi government has only partially backed, saying Iran could have a role in the attacks. Iran has denied the accusations.

Iran can deny the facts all they want to and emulate our own Democratic Party leaders and spin this any way they want to but the facts remain. There are Iranian made weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan and the US is holding Iranian "operatives" captured in Iraq.

Jihad Watch says: Thug-In-Chief licks his chops

It is indeed a sad state of affairs when politics trumps National Security at the expense of our military.

Some buzzings over here

Michael Totten says:

MUSHADAH, IRAQ – “Al Qaeda terrifies locals,” said Major Mike Garcia from Canyon, Texas, before he put me in a convoy of Humvees with 18 American Military Police on their way to the small town of Mushadah just north of Baghdad. “The only people Iraqis may be more afraid of is their mothers. When we arrest or detain people and threaten to call up their mom, they completely freak out. Please, no, don’t tell my mother they say. Women are quiet outside the house, but they severely smack down their bad kids inside the house. When your Iraqi mother tells you to knock something off, you knock it off.”

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Michael J Totten....AQ Tactics Are Backfiring and We Are Winning

The Worse Since 9/11

Michael J. Totten - 8.22.2007 - 5:25PM (just a bit...click and read the whole report)

Hundreds of Iraqi Yezidis, members of an ancient religious sect heavily influenced by Persian Zoroastrianism, were murdered last week in the most deadly terrorist attack in the world since September 11, 2001. Fuel tankers packed with explosives were ignited in a refugee camp near the town of Kahtaniya, just outside the Kurdish autonomous region. Officials say the death toll has surpassed 500. The American military says this is the handiwork of al Qaeda. They’re probably right: this has their fingerprints all over it.

American commander General David Petraeus recently warned that terrorists and insurgents may use the media as a weapon and stage massive, headline-grabbing attacks as a way of showing the surge is a failure. If this massacre was indeed a part of that strategy, it has failed. Journalists aren’t playing along. They dutifully reported the attack and moved on, treating even this massive terror attack as just the latest in the steady drip, drip, drip of atrocities that erupt in Iraq as a matter of course.

The MO of Al Qaida is no longer working due to the efforts of down to earth, good with the bad, TRUE journalist reporting such as Michael Totten, Michael Yon, Bill Roggio, Jeff Emanuel and a host of others.

This reporting has had a major affect and effective causation of the Moonbat Death Throe Dances we have been witnessing since the smell of Victory is at hand.

And this is The Why; W Thomas Smith, Jr says it with such class;

Yet, far too many believe they have mastered the finer points, standards, etc. and that they have something to say that others should — for whatever reason — listen to. In fact, many 21st-century writers would rather attempt to impress their readers with what they believe to be their mastery of the language and the cleverness of their mind, than actually writing for their readers. Consequently, there seems to be this huge sense of entitlement among writers and wannabees today.

Are you listening WaPo, NYSlimes, et al?

A recent historical event has dealt yet another devastating blow to AQ:

From ADNKronos;

Baghdad, 22 August (AKI) - The leader of Iraq's banned Baath party, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has decided to join efforts by the Iraqi authorities to fight al-Qaeda, one of the party's former top officials, Abu Wisam al-Jashaami, told pan-Arab daily Al Hayat.

"AlDouri has decided to sever ties with al-Qaeda and sign up to the programme of the national resistance, which includes routing Islamist terrorists and opening up dialogue with the Baghdad government and foreign forces," al-Jashaami said.

Al-Douri has decided to deal directly with US forces in Iraq, according to al-Jashaami. He figures in the 55-card deck of "most wanted" officials from the former Iraqi regime issued by the US government.

In return, for cooperating in the fight against al-Qaeda, al-Douri has asked for guarantees over his men's safety and for an end to Iraqi army attacks on his militias.

Recent weeks have seen a first step in this direction, when Baathist fighters cooperated with Iraqi government forces in hunting down al-Qaeda operatives in the volatile Diyala province and in several districts of the capital, Baghadad.

Although the Baath party was officially banned after US-led forces in 2003 toppled the regime of Iraq's late president Saddam Hussein, its members have fought in the insurgency.

Until just a few months ago, former Baath party members were helping Islamists carry out terrorist attacks against US forces in Iraq.

And as The Captain has reported; Has Maliki Ended The Insurgency?

Earlier today, the Italian news service AKI reported that the presumed leader of the largest insurgency in Iraq will start cooperating with the Iraqi government. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, one of the highest-ranking members of Saddam Hussein's government, reportedly pledged to work with Iraqi and American forces to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq:

The leader of Iraq's banned Baath party, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has decided to join efforts by the Iraqi authorities to fight al-Qaeda, one of the party's former top officials, Abu Wisam al-Jashaami, told pan-Arab daily Al Hayat.

"AlDouri has decided to sever ties with al-Qaeda and sign up to the programme of the national resistance, which includes routing Islamist terrorists and opening up dialogue with the Baghdad government and foreign forces," al-Jashaami said.

Al-Douri has decided to deal directly with US forces in Iraq, according to al-Jashaami. He figures in the 55-card deck of "most wanted" officials from the former Iraqi regime issued by the US government.

In return, for cooperating in the fight against al-Qaeda, al-Douri has asked for guarantees over his men's safety and for an end to Iraqi army attacks on his militias.

Recent weeks have seen a first step in this direction, when Baathist fighters cooperated with Iraqi government forces in hunting down al-Qaeda operatives in the volatile Diyala province and in several districts of the capital, Baghadad.

This could be game, set, and match for the Iraq War. Some smaller insurgent elements assisted in clearing Baqubah as a test to see whether an alliance with Americans would work. Apparently, the experiment worked. If al-Douri accepts the authority of the elected Iraqi government, then almost all of the resistance in western Iraq will disappear -- leaving AQI very exposed.

As this news refreshes and becomes more and more "for sure", our very own Defeatists will once again, have the permanent stain of the Yellow Streak across and down their backs as they turn and run and try their best to spin their effervescent cowardice in the Line of Fire.

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