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October 15, 2009
The Unthinkable Victory
Breaking news: the Iraq war is still over -- and won. I think this makes it official: the liberal Brookings Institution is apparently no longer bothering to update their Iraq Index, with the last update having been done on September 1st. Final score: 8500-11000 MW of power (vs. 4000 prewar), vastly improved access to potable water/sanitation/trash removal, something like five hundred times as many cellphones, a million people with Internet access in a country that previously had essentially none, a tripling of GDP, billions in foreign investment, national debt halved, and thousands of trained judges. Even the endemic fuel shortages appear much ameliorated, with the number of Iraqis saying they had good access to fuel rising from 19% in 2008 to 68% this year. Oh yeah, and a fairly liberal Arab constitutional democracy with basic rights for minorities, including the rights of voting, free press, free assembly, and free speech. Meanwhile, the security situation in Iraq is better than ever (and far, far better than the average ~7,000 a month killed under Saddam), with icasualties reporting an incredibly low 158 deaths total in September -- the lowest ever recorded. This is all lending an odd, even surreal quality to the Afghanistan debate, where the "surrender now!" coalition (largely composed of people who, like Obama, vehemently insisted for years that our conflict in the Hindu Kush was the really important war that Bush should have been focused on) assiduously avoid mentioning (or, presumably, even thinking about) the awful reality of the profound, thoroughgoing American victory in Iraq they all said was impossible or even undesirable. For them, Iraq is still literally the unthinkable victory. If they want to lay any claim to credible analysis of ongoing events in the GWOT, they will need to start acknowedging this basic, painful fact: we won. posted by Dave on 10.15.09 at 02:50 PM
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They can't admit they were wrong. That's one of the biggest problems there is right now, the Left has painted themselves into a corner by screeching whatever they thought would hurt Bush for the last 8 years, now they have to pretend they weren't lying, partisan hacks who would hurt America if they thought it would give them an advantage over Bush. That's one of the reasons global warmmongers are getting so strident, they absolutely cannot admit they were duped. After calling me worse than Holocaust deniers, they can't admit they're the anti-science fools. And since they can't admit they've been lying or stupid for 8 years, they have to either pretend their fantasy is reality or ignore reality. So that's why Iraq is out of the news, they weren't just wrong, but on the wrong side of history. They actively rooted for murderous, hate-filled, baby-murderers over the US military and they can't admit that they were doing evil. They were right dammit and the wingnuts were wrong. And that's the way it "is". Veeshir · October 16, 2009 12:40 PM I mentioned this on a Code Pink supporting blog. They said we can't leave Afghanistan. There would be a bloodbath. I agreed with them. And then I said: how about Iraq. Bush will go down in history as one of our better Presidents. The revisions are already being made. M. Simon · October 16, 2009 08:28 PM Nyquist grated Hernandez abolitionists budge.rusting - Tons of interesdting stuff!!! Anonymous · October 22, 2009 12:02 PM Post a comment
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By my calculations, Bush has to date saved 750,000 Iraqi lives
http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/bush-saved-750000-iraqi-lives/