Holy Joe Lieberman weeps today over the dimwitted refusal of Americans to recognize the progress made in Iraq. He writes today in an opinion piece over at WaPo. Read it if you dare.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Of course, Joe makes the argument that the recent bombings and violence in Iraq are a GOOD thing because it shows the progress we're making.
The current wave of suicide bombings in Iraq is also aimed at us here in the United States -- to obscure the recent gains we have made and to convince the American public that our efforts in Iraq are futile and that we should retreat.
Got that? The bombings are a clever plan to obscure the gains by al-Qaeda. In fact, it's ALL al-Qaeda. As Joe points out:
Indeed, to the extent that last week's bloodshed clarified anything, it is that the battle of Baghdad is increasingly a battle against al-Qaeda. Whether we like it or not, al-Qaeda views the Iraqi capital as a central front of its war against us.
How did the bombings clarify the battle in Baghdad is against al-qaeda? Does Joe offer proof? Nah, facts are for sissys.
Al-Qaeda's strategy for victory in Iraq is clear. It is trying to kill as many innocent people as possible in the hope of reigniting Shiite sectarian violence and terrorizing the Sunnis into submission.
In other words, just as Petraeus and his troops are working to empower and unite Iraqi moderates by establishing basic security, al-Qaeda is trying to divide and conquer with spectacular acts of butchery.
I love the "just as". Damn it. "Just as Petraeus" is getting it all together, al-Qaeda is ruining it all by violence. Hasn't Joe noticed the level of violence in the last four years?
More Joe:
But if tomorrow Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds were to achieve the "political solution" we all hope for, the threat of al-Qaeda in Iraq would not vanish.
This is interesting: if a political solution is found in Iraq by three factions according to Joe, al-Qaeda would still be a threat and so, logically we would never leave Iraq if Joe had his way. Progress. No progress. We stay.
That is why the suggestion that we can fight al-Qaeda but stay out of Iraq's "civil war" is specious, since the very crux of al-Qaeda's strategy in Iraq has been to try to provoke civil war
Where does he get this crap?
When you get finished reading Holy Joe, get a double dose of stupidity and read Broder tut-tutting over Harry Reid saying mean things.
He helpfully entitled it "The Democrats' Gonzales" just in case you miss his point.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...