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Catherine Moy
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You may not see it bannered on the frontpage of your newspaper, but American troops and “the surge” are stopping the insurgency in record numbers and deaths and violence have dropped significantly.
The good news is available - if you look in the right places. Even the Associated Press has written stories showing the major progress, that, I’m sure, makes the white-flag leadership of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Jack Murtha cringe.

Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch points to what the military calls ``Concerned Citizens’’ - both Shiites and Sunnis who have joined the American fight. He says he’s signed up 20,000 of them in the last four months.
``I’ve never been more optimistic than I am right now with the progress we’ve made in Iraq. The only people who are going to win this counterinsurgency project are the people of Iraq. We’ve said that all along. And now they’re coming forward in masses,’’ Lynch said in a recent interview at a U.S. base deep in hostile territory south of Baghdad. Outgoing artillery thundered as he spoke.

The Shiites and Sunnis are tired of the bloodshed and many are working hard to take their country back from their real enemies: the radical Muslim Jihadists.

Sunni Sheik Emad Ghurtani is among those helping.

``Because of what the American forces have accomplished, instead of us moving step by step we’re going to start running toward the enemy ... Instead of walking, we’re going to start running now. We just need the weapons and ammunition,’’ Ghurtani said.

Of course, some in the he mainstream media can’t allow good news in the war to go unchecked – or twisted, if you will. Newsbusters.org has an insightful piece on how Newsweek has accused the Bush Administration of hiding the positive news. Unbelievable.

The Bush administration is starving for good news out of Iraq, and it may finally have some: new U.S. government statistics showing that violent attacks of all kinds are down to levels not seen since 2005. But until recently, the administration appears to have resisted acknowledging a key element of the new data, because it flies in the face of President George W. Bush’s ongoing rhetorical confrontation with Iran’s clerical regime.

Go here for the entire story.

Even the Iraqi government, which hasn’t smiled on everything America has done inside Iraq, is reporting great news. The Iraqi government itself claims violence has dropped 70 percent since the end of June.

A new report by the Iraqi government claims that violence in the war-torn country has dropped by 70 percent since the end of June.

Go here for the full report.
What will Harry “the-war-is-lost” Reid say about all of this? Probably try to withhold funds for our troops, or something insane like that.