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Red Star Strikes At Petreus

The Red Star Tribune, in living up to its leftist agenda, is running an editorial today, the Sixth Anniversary (for lack of better words) of the attacks of 9/11. It starts off benignly enough, mentioning that today two airliners slammed into the World Trade Center, killing some 2700 people. It also mentions the other two aircraft in the attack, but not that one was used to successfully attack the Pentagon.

It goes on to say that Americans are looking for a sense of unity and purpose.

It then heads into the thrust of the piece: Iraq.

Instead, the nation is divided this week over the messy and distracting issue of Iraq. Gen. David Petraeus went to Capitol Hill on Monday to give a long-awaited report on the war, and far from reassuring voters that their military is making progress, he couldn’t even convince them he is using accurate measures of success. In what might have been the most depressing news of the day, the Washington Post reported that a majority of Americans don’t even trust Petraeus — whom President Bush chose precisely because of his trustworthiness — to be square with them about the war.

This paragraph ignores the point that Congress unanimously approved Petreus’ appointment to lead the troops in Iraq. In listening to the testimony, it is clear that The House of Representatives, at least those amongst the Democrats, ignored what Petreus stated and instead focused on some obscure polls produced by the BBC and ABC. I call them obscure as they are not widely known. Even Petreus and the Ambassador Crocker who was with him stated they were unaware of these polls. Yet the leftie moonbats, especially Loretta Sanchez (D, CA) continued to push that these polls are the real facts rather than what Petreus is reporting.

There is a big difference between accepting polls taken by biased media outlets versus the unbiased work of the troops on the ground.

But Sanchez, along with her MoveOn benefactors, don’t care about that. Nor, obviously does the editorial staff at the Red Star Tribune.

Progress has been made in Iraq. It may not be as much as we would like to see: we would all like to see our troops come home sooner than later. However, as Petreus stated, things have improved sufficiently that we may soon be able to begin drawing forces down to pre-surge levels.

There are still challenges in Iraq. But the solution is not to cut and run, as the MoveOn crowd wants. It is to work with the people of Iraq so that they can secure and maintain their liberty.

It is bad enough that Sanchez implied that General Petreus is a liar. It is just as detestable that the Red Star Tribune has bought into that line of thinking as well.

As for the Red Star’s desire to find unity and purpose: How about Victory in Iraq rather than perpetrating a desire for defeat.

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