US military: “Major” attacks are down in Iraq
More bad news for anti-war Democrats:
More bad news for anti-war Democrats:
The latest “we don’t wanna hear that war critics are changing their tunes on Iraq” denialist? None other than the far left’s favorite selective fact quoter, sock puppet, strawman creator Glenn Greenwald.
I just read this wallowing-in-negativity piece from the “Horse’s Mouth” over at the Talking Points Memo blog and was once again struck by how the anti-war left refuses to concede that 1) the surge is generating progress in Iraq and 2) that there indeed are war critics out there who are admitting to that.
I bet House Majority Whip James Clyburn and other defeatist Democrats like him were none too pleased to read the latest poll numbers on the surge, courtesy of USA Today:
Earlier this week, we read about a revealing quote from House Majority Whip James Clyburn in which he stated that a good report from General Petraeus in September on how the surge was going in Iraq would present “problems” for him and other anti-war Congressional Democrats who think we should cut and run.
It may be because insurgents ‘can’t take the heat [literally]’: