Osama, read it and weep

[humbled_opinion]

Source: Herald Sun

THERE is a reason Iraq has almost disappeared as an election issue. Here it is: The battle is actually over. Iraq has been won.

I know this will seem to many of you an insane claim. Ridiculous!

After all, haven't you read countless stories that Iraq is a "disaster", turned by a "civil war" into a "killing field"?

Didn't Labor leader Kevin Rudd, in one of his few campaign references to Iraq, say it was the "greatest . . . national security policy disaster that our country has seen since Vietnam"?

You have. And you have been misled.

Here is just the latest underreported news, out this week.

Just 27 American soldiers were killed in action in Iraq in October -- the lowest monthly figure since March last year. (This is a provisional figure and may alter over the next week.)

The number of Iraqi civilians killed last month -- mostly by Islamist and fascist terrorists -- was around 760, according to Iraqi Government sources. That is still tragically high, but the monthly toll has plummeted since January's grim total of 1990.

What measures of success do critics of Iraq's liberation now demand?



Read more: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22687841-5000117,00.html

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Here we go... Of course this is only an opinion piece in a distant conservative rag... but I can feel the drumbeat of this coming faster. Soon more articles maybe even in our newspapers touting the success of this failed war.

[bluestateguy]

1. Well, I guess I was wrong. The war was totally justified after all.

That article sure straightened me out.

[Teaser]

2. If that's winning

I'd hate to see losing. Must be a holocaust.

[tularetom]

3. If you are correct we may be seeing the suggested Vietnam strategy

repackaged and used in the current context. Ya know "declare victory and bring the troops home." They don't want to make it too obvious so they'll string it out over a couple of years. 'Course no telling how many americans will be killed in the meantime....

[MrMonk]

4. Great! Now we can bring the troops home.

[ContraBass Black]

5. "Just 27 American soldiers were killed in action in Iraq in October"

As if that's minor.

[3waygeek]

7. And it's wrong...

On Friday, KO gave the figure for October as 39.

[rooboy]

6. Andrew Bolt is like an Australian Sean Hannity.

and he's been an embarrassment to the Murdoch empire (of which the Herald Sun is such a rag) for years. Nobody in Australia listens to him.