http://www.redstaterascals.com Supporting our troops, supporting the surge Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:10:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This should be page 1 headline of every American newspaper but, alas, leave it to the Brits: From The Sunday Times July 6, 2008 Iraqis lead final purge of Al-Qaeda By Marie Colvin in Mosul American and Iraqi forces are driving Al-Qaeda in Iraq out of its last redoubt in the north of the country ... http://www.redstaterascals.com/2008/07/06/al-qaeda-routed-we-defeated-them/ David Horowitz and Ben Johnson have written the book the Dems deserve: Party of Defeat. In an excellent review at NRO, Andy McArthy observes that it was the Clinton/Gore administration who made regime change in Iraq official American policy. But after the invasion, the Dems flipped: So why the treacherous ... http://www.redstaterascals.com/2008/07/02/the-party-of-defeat-employs-soviet-propaganda-tactics/ Fred and Kim Kagan on How Prime Minister Maliki Pacified Iraq in the WSJ: How Prime Minister Maliki Pacified Iraq By KIMBERLY KAGAN and FREDERICK W. KAGAN June 10, 2008; Page A17 America is very close to succeeding in Iraq. The "near-strategic defeat" of al Qaeda in Iraq described by CIA Director Michael Hayden ... http://www.redstaterascals.com/2008/06/11/iraq-victory-is-in-sight/ Fouad Ajami, professor of international studies at Johns Hopkins University, reminds us today in the WSJ "Why We Went to Iraq": Why We Went to Iraq By FOUAD AJAMI June 4, 2008 Of all that has been written about the play of things in Iraq, nothing that I have seen approximates the truth of ... http://www.redstaterascals.com/2008/06/04/we-went-into-iraq-for-the-right-reasons/ More good news in the war on terror. Predator drones--and Coalition forces--are decapitating the Taliban in Afghanistan: A member of 2 Scots acquires a personal escort as he patrols the town of Lashkar Gah, in Helmand province. Afghan insurgents 'on brink of defeat' By Thomas Harding in Lashkar Gah Last Updated: 10:31PM ... http://www.redstaterascals.com/2008/06/01/british-commander-the-taliban-has-been-decapitated-in-afghanistan/ How is winning a war--the most dominant news story of the last 5 years--relegated to Section B? The Iraqi Upturn Don't look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war. Sunday, June 1, 2008; B06 THERE'S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks ... http://www.redstaterascals.com/2008/06/01/even-the-wapo-admits-that-iraq-has-turned-around/ Ralph Peters takes the defeatists like Obama and Clinton to task with the facts of war and then concludes: . . . If we nonetheless quit Iraq in 2009, the defeated remnants of al Qaeda will be able to declare victory, after all. The organization will be able ... http://www.redstaterascals.com/2008/05/30/ralph-peters-the-defeatists-want-to-hand-al-qaeda-a-victory-it-has-already-lost/ Of course, it would take a non-British born (Pakistani) bishop of the Church of England to point out the obvious: Bishop says collapse of Christianity is wrecking British society - and Islam is filling the void By Sean Poulter and Niall Firth Last updated at 10:17 AM on 29th May 2008 Accusation: Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali ... http://www.redstaterascals.com/2008/05/30/bishop-of-rochester-collapse-of-christianity-has-wrecked-british-society-and-islam-is-filling-the-void/ It took the CIA director himself to say it in black and white, but the Washington Post is reporting that al Qaeda has been defeated in Iraq: U.S. Cites Big Gains Against Al-Qaeda Group Is Facing Setbacks Globally, CIA Chief Says By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 30, 2008; A01 Less than a ... http://www.redstaterascals.com/2008/05/30/finally-the-wapo-reports-that-al-qaeda-is-on-the-run/ The facts reveal that the answer to that question is a resounding "Yes!" From Powerline: On the stump, Barack Obama usually concludes his comments on Iraq by saying, "and it hasn't made us safer." It is an article of faith on the left that nothing the Bush administration has done has enhanced ... http://www.redstaterascals.com/2008/05/26/are-we-safer/