Attacks in Baghdad Fall Eighty Percent

The Surge is working. We can't afford to undo it.

by Rod D. Martin
February 18, 2008

Violence continues to drop dramatically in Iraq as the Bush-McCain Surge continues to work its magic, and as Iraqi civilians continue to join their government in eliminating the foreign al Qaeda terrorists who've made their country hell.

Which just makes it all the sadder that we remain forcibly subjected to a daily diet of "the war is lost" propaganda over here.

From that canard to the disgraceful slander that "Iraqis aren't doing enough for themselves" to the painfully ludicrous (but still occasionally repeated) lie that al Qaeda isn't even in Iraq, the left continues to bet its future on America's defeat, no matter what they have to say to achieve it; just as Bill Clinton claimed throughout the 1992 elections that the then-growing economy was "the worst economy in fifty years."

He would have lost that election but for Ross Perot. But you can't count on things like that, Ralph Nader notwithstanding.

What gets lost in all of this is that this war has libe…