AEI: The War is Over, and We Won

[Goldmund]

I was thinking of posting this in the Lounge because of its humoristic value, but then I realized not everyone shares a morbid sense of dark humor.

What the establishment media covering Iraq have utterly failed to make clear today is this central reality: With the exception of periodic flare-ups in isolated corners, our struggle in Iraq as warfare is over. Egregious acts of terror will continue—in Iraq as in many other parts of the world. But there is now no chance whatever of the U.S. losing this critical guerilla war.

http://www.theamericanenterprise.org/issues/articleID.18615/article_detail.asp

[larryepke]

1. Good!

Then let's get the soldiers home!

[NewJeffCT]

2. I'm sure Colin Powell & Chuck Hagel would dispute that

what world is he living in?

[Goldmund]

3. AEI world

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. So AEI is ready to declare victory and go home?

Or is it that it is getting too drafty

[Burried News]

5. I'm OK with it. Cmon back y'all. We gotRdun.

Ticker tape parade down fifth avenue in Neuw Yaawk City on the 4th of Juuwlie.

[kliljedahl]

6. "Najaf, Fallujah, and Sadr City"

"with comparatively little collateral damage"?
:wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf:
Earth to Karl Zinsmeister, Earth to Karl Zinsmeister...




Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Straight Shooter]

7. We fucked it up, we can't repair it, but what we can do is declare Victory

American Enterprise Institute, fabricating reality, one day at a time.

edit itsy-bitsy typo

[Goldmund]

8. "American Enterprise Institute, fabricating reality, one day at a time."

:rofl:

[Burried News]

10. Works for me and Zbigniew Brzezhinski.

Of course he suggested it more than 6 months ago.

[WilliamPitt]

9. Funny. The generals don’t seem to think so.

“I think the more accurate way to approach this right now is to concede that this insurgency is not going to be settled, the terrorists and the terrorism in Iraq is not going to be settled, through military options or military operations,” Brig. Gen. Donald Alston, chief American military spokesman in Iraq, said last week. “It’s going to be settled in the political process.” In other words, there are no more viable military options. The war is lost.

AEI is the wellspring from whence the Project for the New American Century sprung. We see in Washington the delusions of Bush and his people regarding this occupation, the utter inability to face the truths on the ground there. It is people like the author of the above AEI essay that keep George in his bubble of ignorance, and who make sure the dying continues.

1,728 American soldiers are dead. The New York Times reports that Iraqi fighters have refined their bomb-making skills. “American casualties from bomb attacks in Iraq have reached new heights in the last two months as insurgents have begun to deploy devices that leave armored vehicles increasingly vulnerable,” reports the Times. “Last month there were about 700 attacks against American forces using so-called improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.’s, the highest number since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to the American military command in Iraq and a senior Pentagon military official. Attacks on Iraqis also reached unprecedented levels, Lt. Gen. John Vines, a senior American ground commander in Iraq, told reporters on Tuesday.”

But the war is over, and we won. Or something.

[Goldmund]

11. Yeah, but this is such incredible half-assed 2-bit propaganda...

I guess it's sophisticated enough for the Freepers, they're lapping it up like Saddam his Dorritos:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=war%20is%20over%2C%20and%20we%20won


That's what amazes me about this. It's so unsophisticated, so fucking stupid, so blatantly and brazenly false.

[Kolesar]

12. If Iraq did not have 11% of the world's oil reserves, we would have left

...already.