Schumer's Spin: Sudden Drop In Killing In Iraq Is *Despite* The Surge, Not Because Of Us

This is several days old by now.

But it's still worth linking. I don't like casting "they don't support the troops" on everybody who opposes the war (honestly), but I really find his attempt at political spin here rather insulting to our forces:

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 Qaeda, said to these tribes: "We have to fight al Qaeda ourselves."

Liberals try, with varying degrees of success, to impugn the president and Pentagon and every single general and colonel while claiming to "support the troops" (the grunts, the people who didn't do well in school and ended up in Iraq, as John Kerry says). Here Schumer lets the mask fall -- or perhaps just doesn't have the skill to play to both imperatives -- and simply "blames" the lessening of violence upon American fighters' incompetence.

This doesn't even make sense as a political complaint -- if Bush's "Failed Policies" have been so disastrous as to compel Sunnis to begin killing Al Qaeda and lower sectarian violence and cooperate more with the American military, isn't that incompetence disguising a great success?

Either way he's saying that what we've done in Iraq has caused this-- but he childishly decides to claim it was our failures that caused this success.

Here's the preening little ballsucker in action.

posted by Ace at 05:28 PM

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