There is positive news from Iraq but our media is so hell bent on making the administration look bad they put it on the back burners.

I have heard lately that nobody talks about Iraq because it is lost as our esteemed Senator from Nevada Harry Reid and that statue of virtue Nancy Pelosi say it is. Well I'm calling BS on that statement.

First we are learning that average citizens are beginning to stand up for themselves. Just before noon today, a carpenter named Dhia saw a troop of masked gunmen with grenades coming towards his shop and decided he had had enough.

"As the gunmen emerged from their cars, Dhia and his young relatives shouldered their own AK-47's and opened fire, police and witnesses said. In the fierce gun battle that followed, three of the insurgents were killed, and the rest fled just after the police arrived. Two of Dhia's young nephews and a bystander were injured, the police said.

"We attacked them before they attacked us," Dhia, 35, his face still contorted with rage and excitement, said in a brief exchange at his shop a few hours after the battle. He did not give his last name. "We killed three of those who call themselves the mujahedeen. I am waiting for the rest of them to come and we will show them."
Courtesy http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/006572.php

And we here that in Iraq the people are finally getting around to asking someone to leave, and it isn't the U.S.

"I wasn't surprised when I saw Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appear on Al Jazeera to announce America's defeat last week, not long after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did. Zawahiri claims Al Qaeda has won, and Reid claims America has lost.

But from here in Baghdad, I see only a war that's still raging - with no victory in sight for Al Qaeda or any other entity. In fact, I see Al Qaeda on the ropes, losing support among my fellow Iraqis.

It is up to us to show tyrants and murderers like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah, Syria's Bashar Assad, and their would-be imitators who seek to control Iraq's people and wealth that we, the people, are not their possessions. They can't take out our humanity and they can't force us to back down.

The world should ask them to leave our land before asking the soldiers of freedom to do so."

Courtesy http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/05/10/2007-05-10_a_baghdad_plea_us_should_stay_and_fight.html

You see there is a fine line between success and failure in Iraq and it comes down to words. If we as a country see ourselves as defeated that is exactly what we will get, defeated. But to see us as victors in this battle will produce the outcome we want. Who has thus far tied themselves to defeat? Well if the words of the Democratic leadership are not clear enough for you, you might want to go through the pages of this website and look who says what about the war. You will find they are the same people that believe America is falling, failing and plain old jacked up.

We did not see ourselves into the failure of WWII but we surely did in Vietnam. Words have power but those who have the power to wield the words don't understand that a 30 second sound bite in the states is a vote of confidence in the middle east for those who would have us all dead before they would give up what little power to scare they have now.

I'm not saying all people who disagree with this war should be silenced, on the contrary. They should stand and do their level best to stop it if that is what they believe, but they should do so as many did during WWII keeping in mind that politics ends at the waters edge. The lay man has no power to empower our enemy, but the Senator, Congressman and Presidential candidate sure does. You belief that your right to speech come with no consequences is as stupid as believing that my right to privacy should have no restrictions. Both do and should especially during a time of war.

There are plenty of things this country does right and much of that is happening in the Middle East and in this war. Hospitals that save thousands of lives are open and functioning in Iraq and doing so with modern equipment, Schools dedicated to teaching reading, writing and math instead of hatred of America and Jews are open and starting to turn out a new generation of Iraqi kids who are not hell bent on ending the destroying the West but instead will grow up to lead Iraq as people seeking to retain the very freedom they have been granted and in many cases have fought for.

Has everything gone right, no. Was this a war for oil, no. If it was I'd be paying $.99 a gallon right now instead of $3.00 plus. Were there WMD's, yes. And we know where they went and have eye witnesses who can tell us and are trying to but those news outlets who have interviewed them are sitting on stories already prepared but that do not mesh well with the established train of thought on Iraq. That being that Bush lied.

MIC said conservative avoid the subject because it is a lost cause. I say we avoid the subject because liberals have made up their minds already and will not listen to the facts when they are presented to them in black and white.

You responses to this will clearly indicate what I mean I am sure.

But what would I know; I'm just an Average American.