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Appreciating Anbar
By davidjeffers | September 4, 2008
On Labor Day something spectacular happened in Iraq; something that Senator Majority Leader Harry (The War is Lost) Reid and Speaker of the House Nancy (Iraq War a Grotesque Mistake) Pelosi could never imagine. In the once untamable Anbar Province in Iraq, control was handed over to the Iraqi government.
For my family this is a personal victory and for our nation and the world a victory for freedom. For my family, we lost our beloved Sergeant Eddie Jeffers on a desert floor in Anbar. Eddie spent two tours in Ramadi, Iraq clearing out insurgents and combating evil within that region. I know my son would take great pleasure in knowing his life and the lives of his fallen buddies were not in vain. The Anbar Province is free!
For America, and more importantly Americans, it is an important lesson in perseverance. Only a few politicians, lead by President Bush and Senator John McCain, were willing to stick it out in Iraq and the weak-willed majority of politicians publicly opposed the surge in Iraq. Those opposed were wrong and they need to come out and admit it. What has happened in the Anbar Province is a testament to our President’s leadership, our military’s brilliance, and the Iraqi people’s desire to be free.
In a gloomy report given two years ago during the NBC’s Nightly News, Jim Milkaszewski reported that “A top secret report by a Marine Corps intelligence officer says there’s no chance the U.S. military can end insurgent violence in al-Anbar, and no viable government institutions or chance for political progress anytime soon.” A search of MSNBC’s website on September 3, 2008 only produced a report from the Associated Press. Apparently Hurricane Gustav and Sarah Palin’s personal family information were more worthy of reporting than victory in Iraq.
My son’s poignant words from his famous article “Hope Rides Alone” seem even more prophetic today:
Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we’ve done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It’s all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right.
Indeed my dear son, indeed.
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October 30th, 2008 at 3:34 am
[…] I’m talking about the Iraq War, Operation Iraqi Freedom. My last post here was titled “Appreciating Anbar” and I wrote of how the Anbar Province had been turned over to the Iraqis with very little fanfare […]