The Surge Worked.

The Surge Worked because the Iraqi Democrats did a great job.

The Surge Worked, so the far-Left is re-packaging several, false "Iraq as a political message" narratives into another "uber-narrative" based on the old, blame America first chestnut, combined with the despicable "average Iraqi Muslims are too stupid" to take care of themselves pap.  

For example, here is the latest false, far-left narrative being spread on the internet:

"Everyone but the Bushies and the Neocons know that the Iraqi Democrats and Iraq are an inherent disaster that simply must be abandoned so "those people" can have "their" civil war.  Even worse, everyone on the superior, far-Left knows that "average Iraqi Muslims" are "too stupid" to make participatory Islam work.  Those people will just vote for Shiite fundamentalists."

According to Juan Cole:

“The Bushies and Neocons did more favors for Muslim fundamentalism in the Middle East than anyone since Ronald Reagan and his cronies helped invent al-Qaeda and the Afghan Mujahidin.”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gpOFN-I1EJmTdqWg-U1hwsVMGQiA

According to Informed Comment:

The Iraq War, which the US illegally launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, displaced 4 million (over a million abroad), destroyed entire cities such as Fallujah, set off a Sunni-Shiite civil war, allowed Baghdad to be ethnically cleansed of its Sunnis, practiced systematic and widespread torture before the eyes of the Muslim Middle East and the world, and immeasurably strengthened Iran's hand in the Middle East. All this on false pretexts such as 'weapons of mass destruction' or 'democratization,' for the sake of opening the Iraqi oil markets to US hydrocarbon firms. Cost to the US in American military life: 4,373dead as of Dec 15 and 31,603 wounded in combat. The cost of the Iraq War when everything is taken into account will likely be $3 trillion.

http://www.juancole.com/

According to Powerline:

Diana West has written a series of columns arguing that the surge in Iraq was a failure. The issue is more than an academic one because, as Diana notes,many of the arguments in favor of surging in Afghanistan start from the premise that the Iraq surge was successful.

Not so, Diana argues.  She points not to military considerations, but rather to a series of unfavorable economic, social and political outcomes.  They include the awarding of the best oil contracts to governments other than the U.S., the closing of night clubs, the banning of the sale of alcohol, and other encroachments of Shariah (Islamic law).

I think Diana has misapprehended the purpose of the Iraq surge.  Our goal, in those desperate days of 2007, was to avoid a military defeat, inflict a defeat on al-Qaeda in the heart of the Sunni Muslim world, and substantially diminish the amount of violence in the Baghdad and elsewhere.  We also hoped in so doing to strengthen the highly imperfect fledgling democracy in Iraq.  The surge achieved all of these goals.

 http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/01/025313.php

“600,000 Iraqi Deaths Since U.S.Invasion”

Counting Iraqi Casualties

“The scale of fatalities and wounded is a difficult number to calculate, but its importance should be obvious.   Yet, apart from some rare and sporadic attention to mortality figures, the topic is virtually absent from the airwaves and news pages of America.  This absence leaves the field to gross misunderstandings, ideological agendas,and political vendettas.  The upshot is that the American public — and U.S. policymakers, for that matter — are badly informed on a vital dimension of the war effort.  As an academic interested in the war’s violence, I commissioned a household survey in October 2005 to gauge mortality, and I naturally turned to the best professionals available — the Johns Hopkins University epidemiologists who had conducted such surveys before in Iraq, Congo, and elsewhere.   Their survey of 1,850 households resulted in a shocking number: 600,000 dead by violence in the first 40 months of the war.  The survey was extensively peer reviewed and published in the British medical journal, the Lancet, in October 2006.”

http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/middle_east/iraq/600000_deaths_in_iraq_continuing.htm

The author who commissioned the "Lancet" study calls criticism a "hatchet job," fraudulent or based on innuendo.

2,000,000 DEATH TOLL CLAIMS ARE PROVEN FALSE IN 2009.

The National Journal and the Wall Street Journal are fully vindicated for slamming John Tirman back in 2006. 

Iraqi government official death toll made public -- the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry said 85,694people were killed from the beginning of 2004 to Oct. 31, 2008, and 147,195 were wounded

FALSE claims [as high as 2,000,000] by the European far-Left OFF by a factor of TWENTY, bogus European numbers parroted by the American far-Left CONFIRMED FALSE in this most accurate report

According to the Washington Times:

A report by the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry said 85,694 people were killed from the beginning of 2004 to Oct. 31, 2008, and 147,195 were wounded.  The figures included Iraqi civilians, military and police, but did not cover U.S. military deaths, insurgents or foreigners, including contractors.  And it did not include the first months of the war after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/15/iraqi-ministry-puts-2004-08-death-toll-at-85694/

According to Aswatal-Iraq:

In November 2009, Iraqi Civilian casualties hit lowest level since 2003

December1, 2009 - 08:23:03

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Civilian deaths in Iraq have hit a six-year low in November 2009

http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=122799

According to the New York Times:

Hope rests with “Muslim democrats” who will pluck the Koran and the Prophet out of a tribal time warp.  Kelsay focuses on Muslims in America, recognizing three male scholars whose work ranges from online consultations about the future of Shariah to arguments for harmonizing Islam with women’s equality and freedom of conscience. He then urges the West to prosecute its war on terror by demonstrating rather than defying democracy.  Doing so will help Muslim democrats get heard within their communities — a necessity for all of us, Kelsay suggests, because these Muslims might be the only people who can rehabilitate democracy’s appeal after the serial hypocrisies practiced under its banner by Washington, among others.  It is a provocative conclusion,but an incomplete one.  Muslim democrats will also have to confront Koranic passages that give militants an escape hatch. The most famous verse tells believers that slaying an innocent is like slaying all of mankind unless it is done to punish villainy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/review/Manji-t.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all

http://www.icasualties.org/Iraq/Fatalities.aspx

The Iraq war has proven the far-Left to be racists.

For example, the press fails to cite 2 killed by the enemy in Iraq in November 2009 or that Iraqi civilian casualties have hit a six year LOW.

More U.S. soldiers were killed riding motorcycles back home in America in November 2009 than in Iraq.  Yet the far-left press makes no mention of the low number of injuries or the low number of killed in Iraq because the Iraqi Democrats are doing a great job.  Most on the far-Left still believe in December 2009 that the Iraqi Democrats and Iraq are an inherent disaster that simply must be abandoned so "those people" can have "their" civil war.

Even worse, many on the far-Left still believe that "average Iraqi Muslims" are "too stupid" to make democracy and participatory Islam work. 

That's racism.

http://www.icasualties.org/Iraq/Fatalities.aspx

Meanwhile, the European far-Left falls silent and bitter over Iraq, having worked hard for a "Second Saigon" with U.S. helicopters on the embassy roof.  The American far-Left worked hard for millions of Iraqi Democrats to be slaughtered in the far-left's "second killing fields" in an effort to perfect "Iraq as a political message" and to achieve long-term Democrat political power back in America.

According to the Daily Kos:

Nothing any Democratic President can do will ever stop the flow of"weak-on-defense" canards that began 60 years ago with shrieks of"Who Lost China?" President Obama could announce tonight the sending of half a million U.S. troops to Afghanistan, an invasion of Pakistan's border regions, the bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities, the summary execution of all the prisoners at Gitmo and Bagram, and declaration of martial law at home.  Wouldn't matter. Cheney and the rest of the guys who weakened our national security by turning friends into enemies, assaulting the Constitution, hollowing out our armed forces and enhancing the role of mercenaries would still be complaining about weakness.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/1/809619/-The-Last-Person-Who-Should-Be-Opening-His-Mouth-

According to Bill Kristol:

“By mid-2010, Obama will have more than doubled the number of American troops in Afghanistan since he became president; he will have empowered his general,Stanley McChrystal, to fight the war pretty much as he thinks necessary to in order to win; and he will have retroactively, as it were, acknowledged that he and his party were wrong about the Iraq surge in 2007 -- after all, the rationale for Obama's surge is identical to Bush’s, and the hope is for a similar success.  He will also have embraced the use of military force as a key instrument of national power.”

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/12/obamas_afghanistan_speech.html

In the face of a clear strategic victory for the Iraqi Democrats, even Obama has changed his tune.

According to the official White House Blog President Obama said:

“This is going to be a critical period,these next 18 months. I was just discussing this with your commander, but I think it's something that all of you know. It is time for us to transition to the Iraqis.(Applause.) They need to take responsibility for their country and for their sovereignty. (Applause.)

And in order for them to do that, they have got to make political accommodations. They're going to have to decide that they want to resolve their differences through constitutional means and legal means. They are going to have to focus on providing government services that encourage confidence among their citizens.

All those things they have to do.  We can't do it for them.  But what we can do is make sure that we are a stalwart partner, that we are working along side them, that we are committed to their success, that in terms of training their security forces, training their civilian forces in order to achieve a more effective government, they know that they have a steady partner with us.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/07/The-President-Speaks-to-the-Troops/

THE FAR-LEFT CONTINUES A POLITICAL WITHDRAWAL FROM THE ORIGINAL 'IRAQ WAR AS A POLITICAL MESSAGE' NARRATIVE AND IS BUILDING SEVERAL NEW POLITICAL NARRATIVES TO ATTACK THE IRAQI DEMOCRATS. 

According to Breitbart:

President Barack Obama said, "You have given Iraq the opportunity to stand on its own as a democratic country.  That is an extraordinary achievement."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97DP9U83&show_article=1

The Surge Worked!!!!