Houseboy Brooks, Ignoring Obvious Relevant Facts, Again

That statement is made in the U.S. media, over and over again, as if it is as factual as the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening: "The surge is working." But just because the MSM has parroted the talking points of the Bush administration and John McCain's campaign in making such an assertion, it does not make it true.

A report released by the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) yesterday does something that McCain and the White House probably wish would not be done: actually evaluating progress in Iraq against the goals the administration laid out in January 2007 when undertaking the surge.

And guess what? The surge is not working:

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08837.pdf

 

You might want to tell that to the reporters who have actually been to Iraq lately. Sadly, they can't get their stories up any more than Page 19.

 

Some additional fair commentary:

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/06/surge_protection.html

 

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2008/06/24/progress_so_what?page=full&comments=true

Exactly what I've been saying.

The left is heavily invested in defeat. Facts that show we're not being defeated must be downplayed.

 

Exactly. Just like in Vietnam. Turns out we were actually winning the war, but all that news was downplayed so the left could claim defeat.

One other thing -- how do I turn on that blue font?

 

OT, I'll ask one simple question:

Accepting that the surge has stabilized Baghdad, now what?

 

Some new curtains and a coat of paint?

 

Republican philosophy:

2003-2007: Things are going poorly, so we must stay in Iraq.
2008: Things are going well, so we must stay in Iraq.

 

Sadly, you're much more correct than you know. [blue] But better to be right on accident than wrong on purpose, I guess.[/blue]

 

And that's a whole lot better than the Democratic philosophy:

1968-present: Whether things are going well or poorly, we must never fight the bad guys.

 

To say the least . . . because Cal Thomas writes something, doesn't make it so.

These guys showed endless confidence in people who, in the final analysis, didn't have clue ONE as to just what they were getting into.

Include me out.