US Central Command - Iraq Evaluation

A picture is worth 1,000,000 words in this case. Remember, the chart below represents the commander's assessment of how things are going! This isn't some liberal news reporter...

The facts are clear, we've taken a stable country led by a contained dictator and turned it into a quagmire for our soldiers while completely destabilizing the Middle East. If you drew up a plan for how to really screw things up, you couldn't do any better than this! When and if we ever leave Iraq, Iran, the "Axis of Evil" member to the east, will move in and form a theocratic Shiite government similar to theirs. In other words, our men are dying for nothing and our billions are being squandered for nothing. This President with leave this behind as his legacy.

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And why is Andrew Sullivan the only conservative link in the right hand column of this blog? Because of things like this...

The U.S. military does not have a tradition of abandoning its own soldiers to foreign militias, or of taking orders from foreign governments. No commander-in-chief who actually walks the walk, rather than swaggering the swagger, would acquiesce to such a thing. The soldier appears to be of Iraqi descent who is married to an Iraqi woman. Who authorized abandoning him to the enemy? Who is really giving the orders to the U.S. military in Iraq? These are real questions about honor and sacrifice and a war that is now careening out of any control. They are not phony questions drummed up by a partisan media machine to appeal to emotions to maintain power.

And where, by the way, is McCain on this? Silent on Cheney's "no-brainer" on waterboarding. Silent recently on Iraq. But vocal - oh, how vocal - on Kerry. It tells you something about what has happened to him. And to America.