Shhh… Don’t tell anyone. It may make George W. Bush look good. It may make Republicans look good.
It may shine light on the democrat’s awful record on national defense.
The US Marines pulled out of Anbar Province today victorious.
In this March 1, 2008 file photo, Gen. David H. Petraeus, commanding general of Multi-National Force – Iraq, talks with a group of Iraqi boys at the Al Zawra Stadium in the Karkh District of west Baghdad. Photo by Sgt. James Hunter, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs. (MNF-Iraq)
The US Marine Corps finished their work in Iraq on Saturday… victorious.
FOX News reported:
The U.S. Marine Corps wrapped nearly seven years in Iraq on Saturday, handing over duties to the Army and signaling the beginning of an accelerated withdrawal of American troops as the U.S. turns its focus away from the waning Iraqi war to a growing one in Afghanistan.
In Baghdad, meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden held talks with Iraqi leaders amid growing tensions over plans to ban election candidates because of suspected links to Saddam Hussein’s regime.
The White House worries the bans could raise questions over the fairness of the March 7 parliamentary elections, which are seen as an important step in the American pullout timetable and breaking political stalemates over key issues such as dividing Iraq’s oil revenue.
The Marines formally handed over control of Sunni-dominated Anbar, Iraq’s largest province, to the Army during a ceremony at a base in Ramadi — where some of the fiercest fighting of the war took place.
If all goes as planned, the last remaining Marines will be followed out by tens of thousands of soldiers in the coming months. President Obama has ordered all but 50,000 troops out of the country by Aug. 31, 2010, with most to depart after the March 7 parliamentary election.
The remaining troops will leave by the end of 2011 under a U.S.-Iraqi security pact.
And, just think, it was only two and a half years ago that then Senator Obama said that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq wasn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there. Thank God he did not get his way.
America finished the fight and brought democracy to Iraq thanks to the leadership of President George W. Bush. Today the rest is history.
Victory in Iraq
Iraqi school children, sporting new backpacks given out by coalition forces, pose for their picture on Oct. 9, 2008, in Al Haay, Iraq. The event was part of Al Haay Day, which encompassed a medical evaluation, Iraqi press conference, school book distribution and Joint Security Station site assessment, all of which helped to establish coalition presence in Al Haay. (Photo by Tech Sgt. Jeremy Caskey- MNF-Iraq)
If we had a responsible media in this country this would be front page news.
Sadly, we don’t.
Thank you US Marines.
Thank you US military.
Thank you Republicans for standing strong.
Thank you George W. Bush.
January 23rd, 2010 | 11:17 am | #1
DO NOT FORGET “This War Is Lost” spoken by Harry Reid Democrat Nevada, for now.
January 23rd, 2010 | 11:18 am | #2
Iraqis Celebrate Second Anniversary of “Wonderful, Colossal” Erroneous Prediction of U.S. Senator Harry Reid http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/04/iraqis-celebrate-second-anniversary-of.html
January 23rd, 2010 | 11:26 am | #3
Madeleine Albright would have rather had those children starve to death. She’s just as beautiful on the outside.
January 23rd, 2010 | 11:27 am | #4
God Bless The Corps !
Ooooh Raaah !
January 23rd, 2010 | 11:36 am | #5
Thanks so much for putting this up – fortunately, for many Americans there is a way to view first hand how the Marines took back Ramadi and Anbar – this series at Big Hollywood shows us all the truth:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pdollard/2010/01/12/young-americans-the-unwinnable-ramadi-episodes-series-prologue-and-episode-1-return-to-ramadi/
To the Marines, soldiers, airmen and navy that fought and WON in Iraq – a huge salute and a humble awe of your precision, dedication and sacrifice.
January 23rd, 2010 | 11:39 am | #6
So the Chaldean Catholic Church will now expire without comment? But— well, never mind. I wouldn’t want to rain on the Glorious Victory of Democracy parade.
January 23rd, 2010 | 11:49 am | #7
Nevada voters and the American public need to hold Dingy Harrry responsible for his “This War is Lost” and sned he and his crown price of corruption Rory and their congressionally funded enabler down to ignominious defeat in the upcoming elections. Lets money bomb Sue Loudin and Tarkanian now.
January 23rd, 2010 | 11:52 am | #8
To All US Marines, returning and already home.
Semper Fi.
January 23rd, 2010 | 11:53 am | #9
HOORAH!!!
God bless our Marines!
January 23rd, 2010 | 11:55 am | #10
We’re going to have our glorious victory of democracy parade the day after we throw out Obama and his marxist thugs.
The true enemies of democracy aren’t in Iraq, they’re in congress and the White House.
January 23rd, 2010 | 12:02 pm | #11
What is this???
The Marines aren’t bringing home any oil?? To the victor go the spoils, they say. I was told this war was “blood for oil” and I demand that every member of our military bring home a quart – no, make that a gallon – of Iraqi “black gold”.
What’s that you say? We didn’t invade Iraq to steal their oil? Well I’ll be dad gummed; that’s what all those Liberal folks told us for years on end. You mean it’s NOT true? Are you saying those lefties were LYING? Imagine that!
God Bless the United States Marines!
Semper Fi
January 23rd, 2010 | 12:07 pm | #12
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January 23rd, 2010 | 12:07 pm | #13
Time to blame Bush!
Thank you to our military for a job well done.
January 23rd, 2010 | 12:08 pm | #14
God bless our brave troops and God bless President George W. Bush, the greatest president in american history. If the dems had their way, saddam would be filling mass graves all these years, the sanctions would have been long removed and he would have a nuclear weapon, which he would use to kill hundreds of thousands of americans with.
January 23rd, 2010 | 12:36 pm | #15
Thank you Marines!
Semper Fi!
January 23rd, 2010 | 12:47 pm | #16
Well the American and coalition troops have done their part, and now it is up to the Iraqi people to keep their house in order. God help the Iraqi Christians, because they are going to need it. The Americans and coalition troops have shed their blood and tears to bring a democracy to Iraq, but no matter how great the sacrifice, the recipients aren’t going to change what they believe, how they think, or how they act. Here’s hoping love reigns supreme above hatel when they are left on their own to manage themselves.
January 23rd, 2010 | 12:48 pm | #17
“hoping love reigns supreme above ‘hate’ when they are……”
January 23rd, 2010 | 12:49 pm | #18
Corporal Vere #10
You are 100% correct our real enemies are the lefties in power. The democraps, the bureuweenies and their SeIU and AFCSME, the merxist media, and academia and all them are vampires feeding on we the taxpayers.
Seems to me I recall a Southern governor who was conveniently confined to a wheel chair by an assassin’s bullets when he was running a campign for the democrat nominationfor president after he told us to throw the briefcases of Washington bureaucrats and their professoriat trainers in the Potomac and drive the snakes from power! He was of course reviled, defamed, and ultimately destroyed onthe national stage by the media as an ignorant redneck, racist madman.
January 23rd, 2010 | 12:53 pm | #19
God bless our troops who must yet remain, and thank God for our brave Marines. BRAVO!
I’ll never forget watching a PBS production, Independent Lens, featuring the production of a movie in far Eastern Europe. The movie’s executive producer had decided to sponsor a young aspiring film student from Iraq as an intern in his production crew. The Iraqi young adult male was given absolutely NO supervision, no concrete time frame for responsibilities to be completed when tasks were assigned, no directions on how to fulfill the tasks. It didn’t bother the film’s producer and crew that this kid was acting completely irresponsibly. It was his first time away from home, and that was outside of Iraq! The entire experience was being filmed for their documentary, exploiting this kid for their fame and glory: “Look at us, see how good we are; we took this kid under our wings and changed his life!” UNTIL the kid spilled the beans one day in conversation. They were attacking George W. Bush as a horrible man and terrible president. This kid stood up and said, “I love President Bush; he saved my life!”
From that moment on, everyone in the production worked to sabotage this kid. He told them, “You try to stop me. I know that I am real, and you are fake.” When they dropped him like dead meat, he then petitioned a different international film academy organization for help getting into a formal training program. I don’t recall which American star he got to give him a good reference, but it may have been The Rock or someone like him, willing to put out for the kid to have a second chance rather than return him in failure to Iraq while the war was newly raging and everything in the kid’s neighborhood was still really bloody and volatile. The PBS documentary ended with this executive producer and his wife in bed self-righteously bashing the kid for having been an inexperienced kid out in the world for the first time on his own with no professional supervision whatsoever from them or anyone else in the crew.
They were so stupid, they didn’t realize how badly they made themselves look to the public and to professional supervisors.
January 23rd, 2010 | 12:59 pm | #20
Joanne, Amen to that thought. Christianity is the scapegoat of “good intentions” to spread the wealth of democracy better known these days around the world as socialism.
January 23rd, 2010 | 1:05 pm | #21
Stick it up your arses democrats.
January 23rd, 2010 | 1:29 pm | #22
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January 23rd, 2010 | 2:00 pm | #23
Great job USA!
January 23rd, 2010 | 2:23 pm | #24
I am very glad they have gotten the troops out of there, but there is only one problem. Biden pulled them out and TOLD them to proclaim victory. He pulled them out so BO might be able to say he was not a complete failure. Time will tell if Anwar can stand on its own, but let us hope and pray they do not fall to the terrorist because we pulled out too soon.
Make no mistake about it, this was an orchestrated victory by Biden and the Democrats.
January 23rd, 2010 | 3:29 pm | #25
Job well done!
Thanks to all who have served and
WELCOME HOME!
–
January 23rd, 2010 | 3:51 pm | #26
I’ll bet there’s more than one little Iraqi boy secretly named “George”.
January 23rd, 2010 | 5:07 pm | #27
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January 23rd, 2010 | 6:18 pm | #30
As a retired Marine Corps officer from the Vietnam era, I cannot tell you how proud I am of the young Marines who where the uniform today. They prevailed in Iraq because of the leadership of President Bush and General Petraeus in spite of the scum in the Democrat party, which was just about all of them with the exception of Joe Lieberman, who did everything possible to bring about defeat and ,in the case of Harry Reid, to declare defeat. Hopefully the American people have seen enough and will rid our government of these buffoons next November.
January 23rd, 2010 | 6:59 pm | #31
Rudyard Kipling, speaking in the voice of a British soldier, referring to the Royal Marines, said,
“Once in a while,
they can finish in style
(which I hope it won’t happen to me.)”
As ex-Army, it kills me to say something nice about the jarheads, but in this case, I’ll make an exception.
Well done.
Well done.
January 23rd, 2010 | 7:06 pm | #32
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January 23rd, 2010 | 7:30 pm | #33
God bless the United State Marine Corps. True warriors.
Semper Fidelis.
January 23rd, 2010 | 7:54 pm | #34
Ooh-rah to my beloved Devil Dogs
January 23rd, 2010 | 8:30 pm | #35
Will they have time to vote in the midterms before Obie shuffles them off to Kabul?
January 23rd, 2010 | 8:39 pm | #36
Ooh-Rah Marines! Let me know when you’re coming and I’ll bake you a cake. God bless you all!
January 23rd, 2010 | 8:47 pm | #37
The soldiers and Marines have accomplished almost a miracle in Iraq.
Now many are on their way to Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is important.
God bless these guys.
January 23rd, 2010 | 8:56 pm | #38
Thank you Jim Hoft. Keep printing the good news from Iraq. When it comes to Iraq, most Americans are in a 2006 time warp.
January 23rd, 2010 | 9:07 pm | #39
This just reminds me that Democrats are treasonable according to the definitions in 18 USC Chapter 115.
BUT! The US Marines are not “shrinking violets” and get the job done.
January 23rd, 2010 | 9:07 pm | #40
Believe it or not, the only place I saw this news before I got here from Instapundit was NPR.
January 23rd, 2010 | 9:46 pm | #41
Some people look back at their lives and wonder if they made a difference.
United States Marines don’t have that problem.
*Someone famous said that. I didn’t.*
January 24th, 2010 | 1:51 am | #42
The greatest part of this story are those bright eyed, eager and I’m betting impulsive little Iraqi boys who will one day be the future leaders of that country. What do you suppose they’re going to remember? Would you think it might possibly be that it was the United States Marine Corps, with of course lots of support from everyone else, that gave them their country back?? And of course George Bush. Perhaps we made a small inroad in a Muslim country. Thank you Marines. BZ!!
January 24th, 2010 | 5:40 am | #43
Those of you who expect gratitude for all that we have done in Iraq might ask yourselves where your gratitude is to the French for the part they played in our independence.
January 24th, 2010 | 7:52 am | #44
My father is a marine. So no offense to the Corps. But as an Army vet of Iraq, this posting gets on my last nerve. It makes it sound like the Marines won the war and are now handing it over to the Army. The Army had a little to do with it to.
January 24th, 2010 | 9:27 am | #45
This would be wonderful if there was any need for us to be in Iraq in the first place.
I am a bit confused. So many times I read posts on here that say that its Obama’s wars now. So when there is victory, then how can that victory be in the Republican column?
Just more conservative hypocrisy.
January 24th, 2010 | 9:52 am | #46
It Has Always Been The Soldier
It is the soldier,
not the President who gives us democracy.
It is the soldier,
not the Congress who takes care of us.
It is the soldier,
not the Reporter who has given us Freedom of Press.
It is the soldier,
not the Poet who has given us Freedom of Speech.
It is the soldier,
not the campus [community] Organizer who
has given us the Freedom to Demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag;
who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
that allows the protester to burn the flag.
~ Father Dennis O’Brien, US Marine Corp. Chaplain
God Bless GWB!
God Bless America!
God Bless Soldiers everywhere for putting THEIR
lives on the line to protect us ALL from terrorism!
==
January 24th, 2010 | 10:51 am | #47
Sherry … Sherry … Sherry …
Preventing Iraq from becoming the high-tech/wealthy Afghanistan 2.0 was a good enough reason to go there … whether or not there were WMD stockpiles (as opposed to everything but the stockpiles when it came to reconstituting Saddam’s WMD program, as documented in the Duelfer Report).
This victory is in Mr. Bush’s column, because Mr. Obama would not be in any position to see this success, had Mr. Bush listened to him and pulled out.
Were we go from here, OTOH, is Mr. Obama’s decision. Therefore, from 20 Jan 2009, it is “his war”.
Dell, I think you and I are on the same page …
You said that this war is a war for oil
It’s greed at the point of a gun
But if we really wanted to take that oil
We’d have stayed there in 1991
And I guess that you’ll just have to deal with the fact
It’s returned to the people of Iraq
Your protests, my friends
Sound much like breaking wind
Your protests sound much like breaking wind
And for you, Sherry …
You compare Bush to Hitler, say election’s a fraud
You treat him like Attilla the Hun
But we see right through you, we know you hate Bush
’cause he acts and he gets the job done
and that he will not take from those who work to get ahead
and subsidize those who just seek “fun”
Your protests, my friends
Sound much like breaking wind
Your protests sound much like breaking wind
Yes we see right through you and your calls for peace
Right through to your core of disdain
For the principles that have made America great
And the freedom you say you proclaim
If you really want peace, then protest the terrorists
who crash planes and slaughter men like lambs …
Your protests, my friends
Sound much like breaking wind
Your protests sound much like breaking wind
January 24th, 2010 | 11:51 am | #48
We need to learn from the history of other countries like Argentina. Labor unions played a large role in the demise of Argentina. The history of Argentina looks a lot like where we are going if we don’t put a stop to the madness. The following is a synopsis of Argentina over the past 100 years:
In the early 20th century, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world. While Great Britain ’s maritime power and its far-flung empire had propelled it to a dominant position among the world’s industrialized nations, only the United States challenged Argentina for the position of the world’s second-most powerful economy.
It was blessed with abundant agriculture, vast swaths of rich farmland laced with navigable rivers and an accessible port system. Its level of industrialization was higher than many European countries: railroads, automobiles and telephones were commonplace.
In 1916, a new president was elected. Hipolito Irigoyen had formed a party called The Radicals under the banner of “fundamental change” with an appeal to the middle class.
Among Irigoyen’s changes: mandatory pension insurance, mandatory health insurance, and support for low-income housing construction to stimulate the economy. Put simply, the state assumed economic control of a vast swath of the country’s operations and began assessing new payroll taxes to fund its efforts.
With an increasing flow of funds into these entitlement programs, the government’s payouts soon became overly generous. Before long its outlays surpassed the value of the taxpayers’ contributions. Put simply, it quickly became under-funded, much like the United States ‘ Social Security and Medicare programs.
The death knell for the Argentine economy, however, came with the election of Juan Peron. Peron had a fascist and corporatist upbringing; he and his charismatic wife aimed their populist rhetoric at the nation’s rich.
This targeted group “swiftly expanded to cover most of the propertied middle classes, who became an enemy to be defeated and humiliated.”
Under Peron, the size of government bureaucracies exploded through massive programs of social spending and by encouraging the growth of labor unions.
High taxes and economic mismanagement took their inevitable toll even after Peron had been driven from office. But his populist rhetoric and “contempt for economic realities” lived on. Argentina ’s federal government continued to spend far beyond its means.
Hyperinflation exploded in 1989, the final stage of a process characterized by “industrial protectionism, redistribution of income based on increased wages, and growing state intervention in the economy…”
The Argentinian government’s practice of printing money to pay off its public debts had crushed the economy. Inflation hit 3000%, reminiscent of the Weimar Republic . Food riots were rampant; stores were looted; the country descended into chaos.
And by 1994, Argentina ’s public pensions — the equivalent of Social Security — had imploded. The payroll tax had increased from 5% to 26%, but it wasn’t enough. In addition, Argentina had implemented a value-added tax (VAT), new income taxes, a personal tax on wealth, and additional revenues based upon the sale of public enterprises. These crushed the private sector, further damaging the economy.
A government-controlled “privatization” effort to rescue seniors’ pensions was attempted. But, by 2001, those funds had also been raided by the government, the monies replaced by Argentina ’s defaulted government bonds.
By 2002, “…government fiscal irresponsibility… induced a national economic crisis as severe as America ’s Great Depression.”
In 1902 Argentina was one of the world’s richest countries. Little more than a hundred years later, it is poverty-stricken, struggling to meet its debt obligations amidst a drought.
We’ve seen this movie before. The Democrats’ populist plans can’t possibly work, because government bankrupts everything it touches. History teaches us that ObamaCare and unfunded entitlement programs will be utter, complete disasters.
Today’s Democrats are guilty of more than stupidity; they are enslaving future generations to poverty and misery. And they will be long gone when it all implodes. They will be as cold and dead as Juan Peron when the piper must ultimately be paid.
Individuals create wealth, government consumes it
January 24th, 2010 | 12:02 pm | #49
My apologies for my last comment. I accidentally posted it in the wrong place. Regardless, it is well worth reading because that is where we are heading unless it is stopped.
January 24th, 2010 | 12:17 pm | #50
Ah, Rich, you wax on and on. You kinda remind me of one of Obama’s speeches, a lot a pretty words, but not really saying anything.
January 24th, 2010 | 4:02 pm | #51
Mission Accomplished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Oooorah and Semper Fi! You are the finest fighting force in the history of the world…Fallujah will go down in history along with Beleau Wood and Iwo Jima as Marines of today have certainly kept their honor clean…God bless the US Marines and God help their enemies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 24th, 2010 | 4:05 pm | #52
Representive Murtha (D) from Pennsylvania who accused Marines of murdering unarmed civilians at Haditha could not be reached for comment.
January 24th, 2010 | 5:26 pm | #53
Oh, guess you can’t defend your position against the simple truth, Sherry?
Or is it simply projection?
January 24th, 2010 | 5:39 pm | #54
Rich,
I think I found “Sherry’s” problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh_9QhRzJEs
January 24th, 2010 | 10:08 pm | #55
++
still no mention via the MSM..
Saddam, Usama, Ayamn
disclaimer: not that i had any great expectations..
not to mention this (just a sample)..
==
January 25th, 2010 | 6:02 pm | #56
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