Cao lives in the same upside down world as your typical right-wing naif: war is peace, success is failure, debt is wealth, failure is success, etc. Right-wing dupes are almost completely incapable of using actual data to support their absurd conclusions.

I didn’t realize Cao was a girl, either. The world is just full of surprises: big dog is a nurse, Cao is a girl, Wild bill of passionate America is a tough stay-at-home dad with a criminal record, the ‘Gathering of Eagles’ guys are so fat and lazy that they don’t even march when they do their protest warrior routine, etc.

You can win an election on bad news if it’s obvious, but not if you have to sell the voters on it first. Why choose to feel dismal? Even if that’s what Meatbrain choses…we don’t have to….

I guess there isn’t enough bad news on the War in Iraq lately with the success of the surge and all.

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One wire dispatch put it this way:
“It was something not seen in Baghdad since before the 2003 invasion — people publicly welcoming a new year with singing, dancing and general revelry. The ballrooms of …

Of course… This good news means no news….

Meatbrain thinks the surge is not working, but we can pretty much dismiss his idiocy with a block of salt.
If it bleeds it ledes, which is what we’ve been complaining about since the beginning, even when there was no war. The MSM and others-hate…

”(should we break it to him, GM? That he’s using the proof-by-lack-of-evidence-to-the-contrary fallacy?)”

To which I replied:

What “lack of evidence” does Qwerty claim I am relying upon?

Be happy to refute your argument when you decide to make one meaty.

See above. GM ignores that fact that I have in fact made an argument. Like others of his kind, he is incapable of actual discussion.

I’ll ask the question straight out, with the expectation that the warpimps will be unwilling to address it: How can a strategy that has failed to achieve the majority of its stated objectives be considered a success?

By the way, Qwerty is exactly correct in the German meaty.

Oh, and picking at some supposed errors but ignoring factually correct statements is also cowardice meaty. Can’t understand why you don’t get it.

Iraqi officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were authorized to release the information, raised the death toll of Friday’s attacks to at least 99 — 62 people in the first blast at the central al-Ghazl bazaar and 37 others about 20 minutes later at the New Baghdad area pigeon market in southeastern Baghdad.

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The bombings served as a reminder that Iraqi insurgents are constantly shifting their strategies in attempts to unravel recent security gains around the country. Women have been used in ever greater frequency in suicide attacks — six times now since November.

Friday’s blasts were the deadliest in the capital since an April 18 suicide car bombing that killed 116 and wounded 145.

What Cao and her fellow warpimps ignore — what they must ignore — is that local reductions in violence in Baghdad and other cities were not the primary goals of the surge. Those were only tactics, and while there have been some reductions in violence in some parts of Iraq, the actual goals of the surge, as laid out by both the Bush administration and the Iraqi government under Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, remain largely unmet. This was documented by a recent report from the Government Accountability Office.

There’s more on this at the National Security Network. Reconciliation and political progress in Iraq has bogged down. The soldiers whose lives have been sacrificed in the surge deserve better than to have pundits and wingnut bloggers declare that the surge has been a success in blatant disregard of the facts.

But what you and your fellow propagandists want is to lose the war, isn’t it brown teeth?

Local Iraqi civilians collected enough intelligence over the last several months to pinpoint more than 40 targets.

According to Col .Steven Boylan, many of the bombs dropped during the strike targeted deep-buried IEDs. Boylan also noted that many of the strikes triggered “numerous secondary explosions confirming the hits.” He also confirmed that this was “very sparsely populated area,” and that Iraqi civilians were evacuated in advance of the strikes.
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God forbid you should quote someone who’s actually over there, Bisson.