Why cant Democrats Can't Handle the Good News coming out of Iraq?

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Democrats Can't Handle the Good News

Very good news is coming out of Iraq. Not surprisingly, this hasn’t caused a change of heart among the Democratic leadership. It hasn't even given them pause. One wonders if they are capable of hearing such news anymore.
The Times Online reports that Al Qaeda is facing rebellion from within its ranks. Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a persons face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of Al Qaeda are daring to become informants for the U.S. military in a hostile Baghdad neighborhood.
Some of these junior Al Qaeda members are said to be repulsed by the gratuitous, barbaric violence. One said, I am sick of it and I hate them, and I am done.
The good news doesn't stop here. Al Qaeda is not only facing internal dissension, but evidence is also emerging that other ethnic forces formerly friendly to Al Qaeda are changing their tune. Iraqi locals are denying Al Qaeda the sanctuary they need to operate. Lt. Col Stephen Michael, commander of a 700-troop battalion in Doura, says, Al Qaedas days are numbered, and right now he is scrambling.
This news, says the Times, comes out of Doura. But it is part of a wider trend that has started in other Al Qaeda hotspots across the country and in which Sunni insurgent groups and tribal sheikhs have stood together with the coalition against the extremist movement.
Along the same lines, The Washington Times reports that U.S. forces have brokered an agreement between Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders in Taji, Iraq, to join forces against Al Qaeda and other extremists, which represents an extension of a policy already implemented in Anbar province that has transformed the security situation there.
This isn't some flimsy handshake deal. Tribal leaders agreed to use members of more than 25 local tribes to protect the area around Taji from Sunni and Shiite extremists. It's also significant that tribal forces approached U.S. forces to initiate this agreement.
Al Qaedas inhumanity is not the only reason things are beginning to change in Iraq. The reports clearly indicate that the increased number of U.S. forces in Doura has made the locals feel it's less dangerous for them to turn toward us. These reports are direct confirmation that the surge strategy is working.
The Washington Times also reports -- surely much to the chagrin of war naysayers who have gloated that we have been greeted not as liberators but occupiers -- that U.S. soldiers walking through Sunni villages have been greeted warmly, with locals shaking the soldiers' hands and kissing their cheeks. Just a month ago, according to Sgt. Richard Fisk, every single one of these people was shooting at us.
Has any of this good news coming out of Iraq prompted Democrats to rethink their opposition to victory?
A brief survey of recent headlines reveals quite the opposite. Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would press forward on legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq, despite the Democrat's failed efforts last week to pass such a bill. He also said Republicans who voted against withdrawal of our troops were engaged in partisan gamesmanship. If that isn't a textbook case of psychological projection, Ive never seen one.
Meanwhile, Senator Russ Feingold told NBCs Tim Russert that he wants Congress to censure President Bush for his management of the Iraq War and his assault on the Constitution. While Reid didn't readily warm to the idea of a censure, he did say that the president already has the mark of the American people that hes the worst president weve ever had. How’s that for rising above partisanship and supporting your commander in chief during wartime?
Elsewhere, that great patriot from San Francisco, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, derided President Bush’s call for congressional Democrats to rise above partisanship. Like Reid, Pelosi said the American people have lost faith in Bush and she will continue to cause Congress to vote to end this war every chance she gets.
Speaking of partisanship, news reports around the web demonstrate that while the Bush administration and our armed forces are doing everything they can to accomplish serious, non-partisan business in Iraq in furtherance of the nonpartisan goal of promoting our national security; Democratic leaders are bogging down the administration in frivolous investigations over matters that aren't even arguably illegal.
In other news, Democratic presidential candidates are traveling the country trying to outdo each other in the nonpartisan activity of pandering to illegal immigrants for their votes (Obama has gone so far as to court La Raza). Other party leaders are trying to develop strategies to unburden the party of its image as the party of abortion. Of course, they're not doing anything to unburden themselves of the party's moral failure on it.
That concludes our report.

Answer 1

Because the internal dissent with regard to Al Qeada is not relevant to the overall question of whether Iraqi forces (current govt military) are ready and prepared to take over their country, or whether it benefits US interests to remain there.

The Al Qaeda in Iraq status is a tiny factor in the grand scheme of the occupation issue.

And have absolutely nothing to do with any of the constitutional issues that have been raised with regard to Bush's activity and his alleged violations of federal law.

So, no, that once news point does not change the big picture at all.

Answer 2

The latest news out of Iraq is that the Military says it will need to be there at least Two (2) more years ! How is that good news ? Many in the Military think we could be there another Ten years. And that's not some article in a newspaper, that's from reports in the Pentagon.

Answer 3

The answer that that Bush and the republicans don't know what good news from Iraq would really look like.

So, to help you all out, here are some example headlines, Top 10 Letterman style (but these are serious):

#10
Iraq Government Reports Sixth Consecutive Month of No Terrorist Activity
#9
US Military Reports No Casualties, Outlook Excellent for End of Occupation
#8
Iran, Iraq, Syria Sign Regional Demilitarization Pact
#7
Iraqi Contractors Win Major Restoration Contracts
#6
Iraq To Host 2016 Olympic Games
#5
Iraqi Tourism See Bright Future
#4
US Adopts National Renewable Energy Grid Proposal: Projected Use of Imported Oil in 2020 Down to Millions of Barrels
#3
Factions Agree to New Government: United States of Iraq
#2
US Troops to Return Home
#1
US, Iraqis, World Celebrate Bin Laden Capture

Answer 4

When General Petraeus achieves the desired outcome the Liberals will claim victory by applying pressure toe Bush to "get with it".

These Iraqi people are not completely stupid. Especially when they start to see how Al-Qaeda institutes complete order and punishment, mostly opressive and horrid.

Al-Qaeda is a ideal of Islam, HARD CORE Islam as the law of the land. Liberals just do not get how hard and lethal many of these people are.

The reason all of these liberals want to end the war now is so they DONT HAVE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS about it or adopts it when they might become President (God Help us!)

Answer 5

because it would not fit into their agenda that all is lost , lets cut and run and maybe those bad boys will just leave us alone. big bad Americans. Americans are the real terrorist...blah blah blah.

my son is in the us army and i know from him first hand that they know they are helping the Iraqis to a path to freedom and a better self-determining government, it will not be democracy as we know it for their culture is so much different but at least some freedoms that they didn't have before.

they seem to have forgotten that we suffered numerous attack prior to 9/11 one was on the WTC itself, that killed and maimed Americans.

here is a link from a well known liberal news paper that finally give some positives.

Answer 6

What good news is that, then ?

The only news I hear coming from Iraq is news of hundreds of US and UK soldiers and thousands of innocent civilians being killed. If you think that is good then you have a different definition of "good" from mine !

Answer 7

I'm a Democrat and I would be absolutely delighted to hear some good news... It would mean the earlier return of our troops from Iraq. But there has been no good news - and our troop levels are increasing.

Answer 8

Really. A link would have sufficed :-)

Most Democrats are THRILLED at any actual, good news coming from Iraq. We want a gradual withdrawl, after all, and our main concern about that is the state in which we'll leave Iraq, so the better off they are, the happier we should be.

Answer 9

The Democrats have no faith in the military or its leaders and haven't for years. Peace, love and tax everybody to death.
We could have talked Saddam into being nice and the same with all the dictators the world over. North Korea, Russia, Hugo Chavez (the scumbag) in Venezuela.

Answer 10

Because the liberal media won't tell them the good news only the bad news. The liberal media thrives off of bad news.

Don't you remember that song "Give us your dirty laundry".