Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category

President Bush secretly flew to Iraq this weekend to meet with al-Maliki and to thank our troops for their tireless efforts:
President George W. Bush made an unannounced farewell visit to Baghdad on Sunday, just weeks before he leaves office and bequeaths the unpopular Iraq war to President-elect Barack Obama.
Slipping out of the White House over [...]

As far as the folks at the New York Times are concerned, the success in Iraq is due to the efforts of Barack Obama and the liberals, at least that’s what they are arguing. Take a look at Thomas Friedman’s opinion piece from yesterday:
In the last year, though, the U.S. troop surge and the backlash [...]

This message comes from Michael Yon who called Glen Reynolds to give him the news you probably haven’t heard anywhere in the mainstream media:
“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:” Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. [...]