Friday, September 14, 2007

More Good News from Our Leaders' Successes in Iraq

Our victories are so few, so rare, so modest, so tenuous....
Supporters of the president's surge have made much of all the progress they're seeing in Anbar province. But in what officials are calling a huge setback for U.S. efforts in Iraq, the most prominent leader in the Sunni push-back against al-Qaida in Anbar was killed Thursday by a roadside bomb.

Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, the leader of the Anbar Salvation Council, met with George W. Bush during the president's surprise visit to Iraq earlier this month.
Link.

And a question: four-and-a-half years in, why have Our Leaders been unable to have a competent local military in place? Just apathy on Our Leaders' parts? After all, they're after the oil and a couple of permanent bases (which are manned by who?). Was there not a world-frightening military in place before the invasion?

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