Aug 22, 2007 9:55am
‘Freedom’s Watch’ Ads to Debut Today, Making Case It’s ‘No Time To Quit’ in Iraq
EmailUSA Today’s OnPolitics Blog Reports: As USA TODAY’s David Jackson and Matt Kelley report (also The Politico’s Mike Allen), a conservative group called Freedom’s Watch today kicks off what it says will be a $15 million TV ad campaign aimed at spreading its message that the buildup of U.S. troops in Iraq is working and now is not the time to pull out from that nation.
The group’s spokesman is Ari Fleischer, the president’s former press secretary. The ads are aimed to be something of a counter to ads from the liberal grassroots group MoveOn, which has been targeting some Republicans with spots in opposition to the president’s Iraq policy.
Freedom’s Watch has posted four ads on YouTube. (LINK)
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Finally, some 527 money to counter the Left’s constant drumbeat of “All We are Saying is Give Defeat a Chance.”
NO Senate Democrat voted against Petraeus. Many even complimented him for his objectivity. Now the Lefties portray him as a paid political hack. Never mind that he literally wrote the book on modern counterinsurgency.
The Surge is his strategy, which he outlined in confirmation hearings.
Despite their Senate votes, the Dem leadership declared the Surge a failure before additional boots even hit the ground.
However, last night Obama says, “If we put 30,000 additional troops into Baghdad, it will quell some of the violence short term. I don’t think there is any doubt about that.”
Congress voted for the War, voted for the Surge (by confirming Petraeus), and voted for the Surge interim funding.
Now with signs of military progress that even the NY Times cannot deny, they say stuff like ‘of course it’s working, we never said it wouldn’t.’
But then they add that because the Iraqi government is moving too slowly, we better pull out and surrender all our military gains.
The Iraqi political solution is coming from the bottom up. Tribal and provincial leaders are working with the Iraqi army and with us to achieve the reconciliation that Baghdad better follow very soon.
And Liberals do not want to discuss the monumental genocide that would follow rapid retreat. Petraeus said, “If you don’t like Darfur, then you’ll hate Baghdad.”
Posted by: carl | August 22, 2007, 10:39 am 10:39 am
Actually, Petraeus commissioned the book on counterinsurgency, which was written by a group of officers headed by Lt. Col. John Nagl, a brilliant West Point grad who also happens to be a Rhodes Scholar and a recognized authority on counterinsurgency. Nagl also wrote a book called, “Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife,” outlining the history of counterinsurgency in the Vietnam conflict. All that aside, I’d like ‘carl’, or anybody from Freedom Watch, to explain to the American public what “victory” in Iraq means. Is it tied to body count? Is it a factor of the profits gleaned from the war by Dick Cheney’s bedfellows? Will we achieve victory once we’ve installed an iron-handed dictator (ala Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran, or Manuel Noriega) willing to subjegate and murder his own people while amassing a personal fortune thrown to him as scraps from the billions pillaged by U.S. business interests? This war, like most wars, is being fought in the name of the almighty dollar — evidenced by the fact that “Freedom” Watch is willing to spend $15 million to keep the war in business (and I use the term advisedly). Without that inevitable dictator, genocide will occur in Iraq when we pull out, whether that’s tomorrow or 10 years from now. The only difference will be in how many American lives are sacrificed before those who equate “victory” with “military progress” have satisfied their blood lust.
Posted by: Steven D. Holmes | August 24, 2007, 10:14 am 10:14 am