by Tina Grazier
Lower than pond scum…in fact, I couldn’t come up with a word despicable enough to describe what this person said today. See the video for yourselves:
Hugh Hewitt and Radio Blogger, report Senator Schumer’s vile slur on our troops:
And let me be clear, the violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al Qaeda said to these tribes we have to fight al Qaeda ourselves. It wasn’t that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here. And that is because there was no one else there protecting.
Mr. Hewitt provides a switchboard number to call for transfer to his office if you care to express an opinion:
Call the Hill switchboard at 202-225-3121 and ask for his (Senator Schumer’s) office and make your sentiments known.
Please be passionate but civil…as would our troops. Make them proud as we continue to fight this political battle in the war here at home. Here’s some ammo…also courtesy of Hugh Hewitt and Radio Blogger:
But the detention, or the capture or killing of the number of leaders that we have taken out in recent months, and weeks, actually, and the progress in terms of just clearing areas of themas you know, Anbar Province has really become quite relatively clear of al Qaeda. Eastern Anbar still has some, and we are working in that area. We have recently cleared Western Baquba, which was almost al Qaeda central, the capitol of the new caliphate that they have tried to establish here in Iraq. So there has been considerable progress against them… — General Patraeus in July
Operation Lightning Hammer which was conducted by MND-North [Multi-National Division-North], which is headquartered out of Hawaii, the 25th Infantry Division commanded by Major General Randy Mixon. They conducted a 12-day, large scale operation in Diyala to disrupt al Qaeda and other terrorist elements that are operating in the Diyala River Valley. And the operation went into the process of clearing about fifty villages and palm groves. It was a very successful operation, resulted in 26 al Qaeda members being killed, and 37 of them detained, 10 very large weapons caches were taken down in the process of this operation that went on there north and east of Baqubah. — Major General JamesSimmons, deputy commanding general for Multi-national Forces in Iraq last month