The Conservative Revolution

I just watched David Bossie’s new film, “Hillary The Movie.” It was a good reminder of the corrupt and power-hungry Clinton political machine. I highly recommend it to conservative opinion leaders who want to spread the word about the threat her presidency would pose to our national security, individual freedom and economic prosperity.

The film also has a cameo by my boss, FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey, which is cool. So get the dvd, watch it and pass it along to someone else.

Congrats to Citizens United and David Bossie for a key tool in the arsenal of truth against the Clinton propaganda machine.

I read two interesting articles this weekend, both pointing out that we are, indeed, winning in Iraq. Here is Jack Kelly of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,

Al-Qaida has been driven from every neighborhood in Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil, the U.S. commander there, said Nov. 7. This follows the expulsion of al-Qaida from two previous “capitals” of its Islamic Republic of Iraq, Ramadi and Baquba.

Al-Qaida is evacuating populated areas and is trying to establish hideouts in the Hamrin mountains in northern Iraq, with U.S. and Iraqi security forces, and former insurgent allies who have turned on them, in hot pursuit. Forty-five al-Qaida leaders were killed or captured in October alone.

Al-Qaida’s support in the Muslim world has plummeted, partly because of the terror group’s lack of success in Iraq, more because al-Qaida’s attacks have mostly killed Muslim civilians.

And this from the Australian,

The dramatic improvement is directly attributed to the surge of 30,000 US troops, their effective counter-insurgency strategy and to the fact that locals are fed up with al-Qa’ida and other extremists. The good news is not just limited to Baghdad. Anbar, once an al-Qa’ida stronghold, is relatively peaceful thanks to the joint efforts of Sunni sheiks and marines. In the south, those willing Iraq to defeat were gloomily predicting that the withdrawal of British troops from Basra would lead to a brutal domination of the city by Iranian-backed terrorists. That hasn’t happened.

Despite the fact that the Democrats are invested in our defeat, the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy has made significant progress in Iraq. The only question remaining is whether this improved security situation will lead to a stable and prosperous Iraq. While the signs are getting better that this will come to pass, only time will tell. In the mean time, I am still waiting for The New York Times to write a front page story about the improving situation in Iraq.

UPDATE: My friends at The New York Times have a front page story about the progress in Iraq. (They must have read my blog. )
Seriously, though, it is good to see that the Times has finally written something positive about the situation in Iraq. What is this, one positive story for every thousand negative stories?

Hat tip to Foreign Policy Magazine’s Passport for this choice Che Guevara quote.

Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become..

Thanks to Mike Boyer for pointing out that Che was nothing more than a killer. Here is the best paragraph of his post.

Today, we seem intent on remembering Che as a liberator in the Bolivarian vein, a freedom fighter. He was not. As Paul Berman has elegantly documented, Che inspired many middle-class Latin Americans to take up arms in insurgent campaigns that did nothing more than set the cause of Latin American democracy back decades.

So why does the left love this guy? It really begs the question…

This is one of the more disgusting comments that I’ve heard from a left-wing wacko.

WATCH THE VIDEO.

“But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President’s amusement.”

I am at the rallies today in D.C. The communist front group International A.N.S.W.E.R. and their left-wing fellow traveler’s are gathered near the White House. The pro-troops and pro-mission Gathering of Eagles, Move America Forward and Free Republic have moved to 7th and Pennsylvania and are lining both sides of the commie march route. Should make for some interesting banter.

I have taken lots of pics and will try to upload them next week.

General Petraeus is on Capitol Hill today testifying before the House of Representatives. I just left the Hill, and it is abuzz with talk about this testimony. Here is a key point he made today:

Additionally, in what may be the most significant development of the past 8 months, the tribal rejection of Al Qaeda that started in Anbar Province and helped produce such significant change there has now spread to a number of other locations as well.

Based on all this and on the further progress we believe we can achieve over the next few months, I believe that we will be able to reduce our forces to the pre-surge level of brigade combat teams by next summer without jeopardizing the security gains that we have fought so hard to achieve.

Beyond that, while noting that the situation in Iraq remains complex, difficult, and sometimes downright frustrating, I also believe that it is possible to achieve our objectives in Iraq over time, though doing so will be neither quick nor easy.

I was watching C-Span when the communist front-group Code Pink started yelling at General Petraeus. The committee chairman asked the police to escort these angry leftists from the hearing room. Don’t they have a meeting with Hugo Chavez later today?

Here is General Petraeus’ entire report.

ABC News has a transcript of the tape. Here are some of the best excerpts.

He goes on to call Noam Chomsky “among one of the most capable of those from your own side,” and mentions global warming and “the Kyoto accord.”

Wow, bin Laden sounds like a Democrat, citing Chomsky and going on about global warming and Kyoto. Perhaps he could run as Hillary Clinton’s VP.

Bin Laden says President Bush’s words echo “neoconservatives like Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Richard Perle.”

Again, the terrorist refers to the princes of darkness on the right. Bin Laden would make a good DailyKos blogger, wouldn’t he?

The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol has a piece in the upcoming issue of the magazine about the Iraq War. He just returned from the country this week and said on Fox News Sunday that things are remarkably better in Anbar province. He writes that the anti-war left had a disappointing July.

Excerpt from his piece:

For the Iraq war’s opponents, July began as a month of hope. It ended in retreat. It began with Democratic unity in proclaiming the inevitability of American defeat. It ended with respected military analysts–Democrats, no less!–reporting that the situation on the ground had improved, and that the war might be winnable. It began with a plan for a series of votes in Congress that were supposed to stampede nervous Republicans against the continued prosecution of the war. It ended with the GOP spine stiffened, no antiwar legislation passed, and the Democratic Congress adjourning in disarray, with approval ratings lower than President Bush’s. It began with Democratic presidential candidates competing in their antiwar pandering. It ended with them having second thoughts–with Barack Obama, losing ground to Hillary Clinton because he seemed naive about real world threats, frantically suggesting that he would invade Pakistan.

July also began with the liberal media disparaging the troops. It ended with the liberal media in retreat. The New Republic had to acknowledge that its pseudonymous soldier’s account of an incident purportedly showing the dehumanizing effects of the Iraq conflict was a lie: It had taken place in Kuwait (if it happened at all), before this imaginative private ever saw the horrors of war. The New York Times was so shocked to discover in late July that public opinion hadn’t continued to move against the war that it redid a poll. The answer didn’t change.

Kenneth Pollack and Michael O’Hanlon argue in the New York Times that things in Iraq are getting better:

Viewed from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility. Yet now the administration’s critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.

Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.