Political reconciliation in Iraq will occur, but not at our insistence or in ways that meet our benchmarks. It will happen on Iraqi terms when the reality on the battlefield is congruent with that in the political sphere. There will be no magnanimous solutions that please every party the way we expect, and there will be winners and losers. The choice we have left is to decide which side we will take. Trying to please every party – as we do now – will only ensure we are hated by all in the long run.
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Buddhika Jayamaha is a U.S. Army specialist. Wesley D. Smith is a sergeant. Jeremy Roebuck is a sergeant. Omar Mora is a sergeant. Edward Sandmeier is a sergeant. Yance T. Gray is a staff sergeant. Jeremy A. Murphy is a staff sergeant.

Some may call it triangulating, but fig leaf works too.

Whether it’s the simple truths of the simpleton Baird finally seeing the light or that trends are how decisions are arrived at or that military progress is taking place and paving the way to a free Iraqi people with new hopes being born, the fragility and terrified concerns of the anti-progressive dhimmicrats continue to prove why they are not fit for important decision making processes at ANY level of government.

Abort is their rally cry and cry is what they do well. Is their treasonous behavior still so hard to see? Does their sabotage of all good efforts remain some kind of ambiguous mystery?

Whether or not Baird’s remarks will start a trend in diehard Democrat wing in the House and Senate remains to be seen, but Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Rep. Bob Casey (D-PA) have both recently conceded that progress is being made in Iraq as a result of the surge.

Curious, is it not, ST, that you link to a source that uses the word “conceded” in the headline.

Since when is good news a “concession”? To this headline writer, it apparently is.

- That those realities are beginning to cause some of the less indoctrinated to hear the footsteps of political desaster creep up from behind is certainly encouraging. I am hopeful that we may be seeing the start of an eventual avalaunch, and with it a crumbling of the entirety of malicious attacks on the American value system, attacks born from the vestiges of post cold war Euro-Socialistic forces, intent on changing the face of our country and our way of life, but I’m not quite ready to call for gold stars for people that were so partisan in the first place, they were willing to destroy their own birthright for purely political gain, and now may have begun to slowly come to their senses. In the spirit of “I am my brothers keeper” I would, however, say to them “Welcome home”.

- Given time, truth, like oil in water, will always bubble to the surface.

- BBH –

Unfortunately, though (and I hate to keep repeating myself), the Democrats own defeat. It’s way past time for the Democrats to be on the right side. That time would have been back in January when they in Senate unanimously confirmed Petraeus to the mission. Instead, Reid and Pelosi hitched their wagons to the nutroots; for eight months they rooted against even the possibility of the surge’s success, said the war was “lost” and called the surge “a failure” before the last of the troops were even on the ground, and embarked the Congress on meaningless votes and nonsensical stunts. They trumped up a supposed mandate, and did it solely for political gain. Remember that in the coming weeks as more rats scurry off the sinking ship.

As they go and return, unless they cannot admit they were wrong, they are being forced to admit that success can be had.

I wonder who will be next?

I also give Baird quite a bit of credit for this, he know he is going to get attacked for it and said it anyway.

Wonder how Pelosi and Reid are liking their vacation now?