The Thomas Chronicles

Some time this past April Senator Reid declared that the war in Iraq is lost. Right around the same time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was making her pilgrimage to the Mideast to encourage our enemies of our good intentions and to reassure them that they’ll be safe in their country from our meddling.

Despite General Petraeus’s good report on the Surge in September and the cascade of good news all across Iraq, the Democrats have stuck to their guns and maintain that the war is indeed lost. Shia militias and Sunnis are coming over to our troops in droves; actually working together and actively fighting Al Qaeda with us. Michael Yon had a very, very significant picture posted on his website of Muslim and Christian men erecting a Christian cross atop a church. Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words.

To these eyes, baby, that’s winning.

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Fresh from the Drudge Report…

“We are aware of this Turkish troops buildup on the border and the Iraqi government position has been that we will not accept or tolerate any military incursion into Iraqi territories,” he said.

“We have urged all sides, including the Kurdish leadership, to ease tension and to seek dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues because we believe any military incursion into the northern provinces would only lead to further escalations and instability and this is in nobody’s interests, not in Iraq’s, nor the United States, nor Turkey,” he added. “We are in contact with the Turkish officials and we have friendly, good relations with the Turkish government.”

According to this article from Breitbart.com, Turkish military incursions into Northern Iraq was fairly frequent before Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Lt. Col. Christopher Garver can’t confirm anything at the moment but said that we were “very concerned”.

Just what in tar-nation is going on over there?