A leading presidential candidate takes some personal credit for the success of the Surge. It was the anti-war movement that won the war! Of course! With logic like that, Gandhi should have won World War II single handed:

The point of the surge was to push the Iraqi government to make these tough choices. Now, if we put in 30,000 of our finest young men and women, who are going to go after the bad guys and quell violence in certain parts of Iraq, there’s no doubt that can be done. The partnerships that have been created by the tribal sheiks in Anbar province and elsewhere gave us an extra advantage. But that doesn’t in any way undermine the basic reality.

The point of the surge was to quickly move the Iraqi government and Iraqi people. That is only now beginning to happen, and I believe in large measure because the Iraqi government, they watch us, they listen to us. I know very well that they follow everything that I say. And my commitment to begin withdrawing our troops in January of 2009 is a big factor, as it is with Senator Obama, Senator Edwards, those of us on the Democratic side. It is a big factor in pushing the Iraqi government to finally do what they should have been doing all along.

How clever must be this candidate. It was all a ruse then last September when, in her questioning of that “serious individual” General Petraeus, she “came closer than any of her colleagues to calling the commander of the multinational forces in Iraq a liar” (NY Sun). When she called the evidence that the Surge was working merely “anecdotal” and said that accepting Petraeus’s report required “a willing suspension of disbelief”, she was being merely tactical — in order to influence those Iraqis who “follow everything I say.”

No doubt those legions of AQI who were killed in the Anbar Awakening were also following Senator Clinton’s instructions, and just dropped dead at her request. Or have we committed a faux pas that “undermines the basic reality” of the Senator’s self-serving spin on what brave Americans and brave Iraqis accomplished, often at the expense of their lives.

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