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and five youtube video accounts of speeches and interviews vets for freedom rally for troops curt at flopping aces iraq testimony on the hill uncle jimbo at blackfive national heroes tour vets on the hill uncle jimbo s youtube video coverage 8 minutes national heroes tour vets on the hill vets for freedom brought 450 of it s iraq and afghanistam vets to dc to talk to their congressional reps and senators they are asking that our troops be allowed to win john mccain and lindsey graham as well as about 10 other congress people spoke as well as dave bellavia and steve russell herschel smith at the captain s journal of swine hyenas and generals the petraeus testimony deebow at blackfive my dad always told me for those that were in civics class and not in study hall you may remember that starting long about 1775 we declared our independence fought a war won it and still had to form a government afterward the fact that nancy can pay zero attention to even our own history and can run her neck on and on about how the consecrated hallowed ground in iraq is unworthy of our sacrifice in the name of the freedom of others something i thought the dems were for and not be dragged into the street and beaten is beyond me ok minus the history lesson the reason i am so pissed is because i was able to find speaker pelosi s traitorous remarks without any real effort but i had to work hard to find any good stories about general petraeus and his testimony or any story about mike monsoor today two men whose stories deserve to be seen and heard by as many americans as possible dadmanly vets on the hill part i meanwhile since they cannot debate the military issues on the facts and merits the left does what it always does and uses petty immature personal attacks no surprise now the left complains about the number of medals worn by our military leaders and of course anything to do with the military cannot be complete without an appearance from the commie pinko hags of code pink april 10 2008 11 31am posted by michael in mi code pink david bellavia general david petraeus iraq military military blogs national heroes tour operation iraqi freedom patriotism pete hegseth the long war us military vets for freedom war effort in iraq comments off on gen david petraeus ambassador crocker vets for freedom in d c supplement to gen petraeus testimony to the united states congress video via matt burden at blackfive jd johannes whom you should remember from this post has supplied us with videos of the anbar awakening which will supplement the testimony that gen petraeus will give to the united states congress today well in a sane world these videos would be seen leading off every newscast across the nation and the world to supplement the coverage of gen petraeus testimony alas it is up to us to promote jd johannes videos to get out the facts and context that the mass media and our politicians will undoubtedly leave out in their own so called reporting jd johannes at outside the wire petraeus testimony my video supplement general david petraeus will be testifying before congress today about the effects of the troop surge to give the public and interested parties a more tangible view of the effects of the troop surge i have condensed one of my documentaries anbar awakens and placed it on youtube you can watch it below in two parts the first steps of the anbar awakening preceded the troop surge by several months but without the surge it is unlikely it would have held firm and expanded more importantly the success of the awakening combined with the troop surge to spread concerned citizens groups and neighborhood watch groups through large swaths of iraq the condensed version of my documentary will hopefully give a deeper understanding to some parts of general petraeus testimony some who probably still doubt the existence of the awakening will say this was shot in a back lot in morrocco but they will say and do anything to force a defeat in order to maintain their identity and that is most pernicious form of identity politics the full version of this documentary and two others showing the surge from the ground level are available here on dvd here and here are links to his youtube videos he has posted at his site but be sure to go visit his site to watch them and read his commentary and be sure to check out the rest of his site and possibly if you can afford it purchase one of his documentary dvds matt has also posted the transcript of gen petraeus prepared statements for the united states congress general petraeus opening statements april 8 2008 11 20am posted by michael in mi al qaeda embed bloggers general david petraeus iraq operation iraqi freedom outside the wire terrorism the long war us military war effort in iraq comments off on supplement to gen petraeus testimony to the united states congress video continued success and progress in iraq first let s get the depressing bullcrap out of the way here is what the democrat party thinks of the progress and success accomplished by our men and women of the united states military in iraq the president said that last year particularly at the end has become incredibly successful beyond anybody s expectations senate majority leader harry reid d nev and house speaker nancy pelosi d calif took issue it is a failure of leadership when our president calls 2007 incredibly successful beyond anybody s expectations when the iraqi government has done so little to achieve stability and it has been the most lethal year yet for american troops they said in a statement but do not forget they support the troops and we should never ever question their patriotism of course let us not forget what the democrats were saying about the plan for iraq last year it s interesting we have had this week the colonel in charge of anbar province say that it s a civil war it s been lost majority leader harry reid d nv september 13 2006 i oppose an escalation of u s troops which i do not believe will contribute to long term success in iraq senator hillary clinton d ny january 18 2007 the article referenced below outlines exactly what i ve been saying over the past two years we haven t been defeated militarily but we have been defeated politically and that s where wars are won and lost rep john murtha d pa quoting a washington post article september 11 2006 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 qaida said to these tribes we have to fight al qaida ourselves it wasn t that the surge brought peace here senator chuck schumer d ny september 4 2007 but again don t you dare question their patriotism or their faith in and support of the united states military but anyway now on to some analysis from people who do not have their heads shoved firmly and snugly up their effing asses gateway pundit surge success anbar province will be handed over in march gateway pundit iraqi newspapers go on attack against al qaeda gateway pundit 64 000 iraqis return home from syria gateway pundit 3 iraqi heroes sacrifice their lives for fellow soldiers civilians jules crittenden fixing potholes michael yon moment of truth in iraq there s only a small group of writers who honestly spend enough time in iraq to make serious claims based on firsthand accounts but i ve seen the iraqi army with my own eyes i ve done many missions in 2005 and 2007 in many places in iraq along with the iraqi army please believe me when i say that on the whole the iraqi army is remarkably better in 2007 and far more effective than it was in 2005 by 2007 the iraqis were doing most of the fighting and this is very important they see our army and marines as serious allies and in many cases as friends please let the potential implications of that sink in we now have a large number of american and british officers who can pick up a phone from washington or london and call an iraqi officer that he knows well an iraqi he has fought along side of and talk same with untold numbers of sheiks and government officials most of whom do not deserve the caricatural disdain they get most often from pundits who have never set foot in iraq british and american forces have a personal relationship with iraqi leaders of many stripes the long term intangible implications of the betrayal of that trust through the precipitous withdrawal of our troops could be enormous because they would be the certain first casualties of renewed violence and selling out the iraqis who are making an honest go would make the bay of pigs sell out seem inconsequential the united states and great britain would hang their heads in shame for a century throughout most of 2007 as i ve watched general petraeus strategy being implemented i have observed the impact his change in strategy was having on our soldiers on iraqi security forces and most importantly on iraqi people including some who were formerly our avowed enemies i have seen how our own military morphed into something much more agile and i came to see how american commanders tended to be the most trusted voices in iraq for many iraqis to be sure the anbar awakening and other signs of progress were underway before the massive strategy overhaul occurred and nobody can track and trace all the factors involved in this fantastically complex war but one thing was certain the momentum was shifting in favor of a stable iraq for the first time the institutional knowledge reservoir was becoming vast and success was touted and shared it may have been true that americans knew very little about iraq before the invasion but it was for certain that american commanders had now developed an intimate understanding of the goings on it can be said with confidence that as a group no non iraqis know more about iraq than the us military michael totten the rings on zarqawi s finger for all the hatred in the middle east there is also forgiveness and moderation where are the moderate muslims ask many americans i find the question bizarre i meet them every day in iraq and everywhere else in the middle east too the problem is they have a hard time getting attention in newspapers and magazines that wallow in sensationalism what happened before happened said omar returning to the discussion of the american invasion with the iraqi police one mistake was committed but it s gone let s just close it and not keep analyzing the same problem again according to our analysis american troops are now here to help iraq sheik abdul sattar abu risha made similar points a bit more eloquently to johns hopkins university professor fouad ajami our american friends had not understood us when they came they were proud stubborn people and so were we they worked with the opportunists now they have turned to the tribes and this is as it should be the tribes hate religious parties and religious fakers we have promised to work with the americans against al qaeda ahmed continued and that s it that is all we are allowed to say about politics but i can say that i feel the sincerity in the american support for the iraqi civilians here i am not going to say any bad words about americans i can feel that they really are eager to accomplish that mission bill roggio operation phantom phoenix targets al qaeda havens despite the recent success in reducing the violence in iraq the fight against al qaeda in iraq and the shia extremist terror groups is not over coalition and iraqi forces have launched operation phantom phoenix a new operation targeting the terror groups throughout iraq the scope of phantom phoenix is nationwide the operation is a series of joint iraqi and coalition division and brigade level operations to pursue and neutralize remaining al qaeda in iraq and other extremist elements lieutenant general ray odierno the commander of multinational corps iraq stated phantom phoenix will synchronize lethal and non lethal effects to exploit recent security gains and disrupt terrorist support zones and enemy command and control the specific geographical locations targeted during phantom phoenix were not identified iraqi and coalition forces will pursue al qaeda and other extremists wherever they attempt to take sanctuary odierno said uncle jimbo at blackfive blackfive tv surge anniversary big bombing day john mccain and joe lieberman the surge worked rudy giuliani war on terror conversations rudolph giuliani video deebow at blackfive why am i only hearing about this now subsunk at blackfive the finest ambassadors but it is a lesson which we need not have learned over and over again over the course of the last 7 years in our endeavors to change the radical islamic approach to coexistence good muslims rule and infidels and apostates die might be the simplest way to put that the finest ambassador from america will always be a united states soldier with a rifle in one hand and candy in the other no better friend no worse enemy is a philosophy which is known and understood throughout the world even by islamofascists while we will move swiftly and aggressively against those who resist we will treat all others with decency demonstrating chivalry and soldierly compassion for people who have endured a lifetime under saddam s oppression got that although imperfectly executed sometimes over the intervening years as mike yon points out you can plainly see that the underlying strategy involved in winning over our enemies has not changed one iota since the war began give a decent american soldier a chance to set the example and the whole world will eventually beat its way towards your line of thought any more talk of defeat and retreat merely means the dhimmicrats and cowardly rethuglicans of the same stripe don t care if they undo everything the american fighting man has done over the last 6 years more blood doesn t mean a thing to them as long as they get reelected men will insist the war be won and brought to an end the only way it can end with a victory press on subsunk out matt burden at blackfive operations continue fred barnes in the weekly standard they can t handle the truth the democrats and the surge and finally hear from the man of the year himself gen david petraeus via steve schippert at nro the tank one man caucus 7 questions for gen petraeus in what is an excellent interview published at foreign policy italy s rai asked david petraeus seven questions his answers are very informative and easy for average americans to wrap their heads around sans often wonkish and technical counterinsurgency lingo that so often loses many right out of the gate in such discussions general petraeus even somewhat dispels the title of the interview seven questions gen david petraeus on winding down the surge he notes that it is proper to be more precise and note that it is a draw down of american forces in the surge but that with increasing iraqi roles the surge will continue once again i encourage you to get all your military news and 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