Senator Joe Lieberman and Iraq.
In a November 29, 2005 article in the Wall Street Journal Democratic Senator Lieberman who had just returned from his fourth trip to Iraq had some very positive comments to make. His comments and analysis of the situation are not the comments that the majority of democratic senators are currently endorsing in regard to the Iraq war.
Some of his comments are the following and I quote: “Progress is visible and practical. In the Kurdish North there is continuing security and growing prosperity. The primary Shiite South remains largely free of terrorism, receives much more electric power and other public services than it did under Saddam. The Sunni triangle geographically defined by Baghdad to the east, Tikrit to the north and Ramadi to the west, is where most of the terrorist enemy attacks occur. And yet here, too, there is progress.
It is a war between 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or Al Qaeda foreign fighters. Every time the 27 million Iraqis have been given the chance since Saddam was overthrown, they have voted for self-government and hope over the violence and hatred the 10,000 terrorists offer them. I am convinced almost all of the progress in Iraq and throughout the Middle East will be lost if those forces are withdrawn faster than the Iraqi military is capable of securing the country. I am disappointed by Democrats who are more focused on how President Bush took America into the war in Iraq almost three years ago and by Republican who are more worried about whether the war will bring them down in next November’s elections, than they are concerned about how we continue the progress in Iraq in the months and years ahead.
I cannot say enough about the U.S. Army and Marines who are carrying most of the fight for us in Iraq. They are courageous smart, effective, innovative very honorable and very proud”.
The headline of the article was OUR TROOPS MUST STAY. I contrast the Senator’s message with the defeatist talk from the likes of Pelosi, Ex-President Clinton, Shumer, Beiden. Kerry and Kennedy. The news media only prints the negative side of the war in an attempt to discredit our military and Our country. I don’t remember this type of phenomenon when I was very young during World War II.
Gary Marsella