Donald Lambro skriver på Washington Times´ Insider Blog
http://insider.washingtontimes.com/index.php
(som kræver (gratis) medlemskab):
Have you noticed that the Democrats have been very quiet about Iraq,
especially since the successful Iraqi elections? You don't hear a peep
from them nowadays on an issue that had dominated the 2004 elections.
All the fire and brimstone rhetoric that we heard from John Kerry, Ted
Kennedy and the Democrats' vast anti-war, left wing base warning of a
Vietnam quagmire, seem to have vanished into thin air. These are the
people, together with their friends in the news media, who said the
Iraqi elections would have to be postponed, that the country was much
too divided to put together a unified government, and that we were
losing the battle for Iraq to the terrorists. In fact, the Iraqi
parliamentary elections were held on time and were an unqualified
success in the face of the most dangerous circumstances imaginable. The
Iraqis are now in the slow but steady process of putting together a
provisional government that will go about the task of writing a
constitution and planning for new national elections under that
document's provisions. Meantime, while it doesn't get any attention in
the national news media, the rebuilding of Iraq has been moving at a
much faster pace as electric utilities are being restored, water
treatment facilities are being built, schools and universities are being
reopened, businesses are operating, vast oil reserves are being pumped
and new assistance and military training is pouring in from all over the
world. There is even beefed up aid from European countries that once
denounced Mr. Bush's decision to overthrow Saddam Hussein's evil empire
as a misguided military adventure. Another huge strategic dividend
flowing from the elections and Iraq's newfound freedom is the movement
toward democratic elections in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and
Palestine. Mr. Bush said that a free Iraq would lead to the spread of
democracies throughout Middle East, a notion that his critics ridiculed
as pie-in-the-sky thinking. But it appears to be coming to pass. What
are the Democrats saying about all this? Not much, though few can argue
with Mr. Bush's apparent success in the region. As for the terrorists in
Iraq, they are clearly losing the war. The number of attacks seems to
have shrunk. More terrorists have been killed during the past month or
so as U.S. and Iraqi forces increasingly receive information from
ordinary citizens about the insurgents' whereabouts. Islamist clerics
are now more openly condemning the terrorists who have been killing
Iraqis in a brutal attempt to regain power through terror and death. The
tide is clearly turning in Iraq. Freedom is working. The Democrats have
been proven spectacularly wrong once again -- on one of the most pivotal
national security issues of our time.
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