Surge Working

From the Full Story at the Boston Herald:

"The debate over the war in Iraq is shifting, though more slowly than is the war in Iraq, thanks to a well-funded anti-war movement and too many in the media for whom good news is no news.

A few days ago, CNN’s Kyra Phillips interviewed Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, Petraeus’ top deputy. She might have asked whether his troops now have both the will and a way to defeat al-Qaeda suicide bombers and Iranian-backed death squads. Instead, her inquiring mind wanted to know: “Do you think that this job that you’ve taken on could be career suicide?”

Most Americans don’t even realize that the so-called surge is a new strategy, implemented by Petraeus because the approach of his predecessors - not least former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - failed." - Continues below

MORE SURGE NEWS: Skye has the inside on how commanders are working to bring security on the ground in Iraq.

The fact is that the enemy knows what the surge is capable of producing in Iraq and is fighting hard to give the left-leaning dinosaurs of the old media the blood and body bags they need to declare failure. Those attacks aren't happening on the surge turf, they're happening on the fringes of Iraq.

We need to keep pressing our representatives to allow General Petraeus and our trrops to do their jobs.