More Potemkin-style prose from Cheney's propagandist. The reality in Iraq is truly more fragile than North's ghostwriter wants to admit.
We've stretched our troops to the absolute limit--tied down in Iraq, and yet the dichotomy of North's ghostwriters touting D-day, an operation entailing the destroying and dislodging of Germany's forces, while Osama enjoys the undisturbed sanctuary of Wazaristan fully illuminates how disconnected the neocon propaganda is from reality.
Certainly the ground offensive was part of D-day, but let us not forget the strategic and tactical air campaign that preceded it, followed it and routed German forces, to include campaigns into Germany.
For if the enemy, Al Qaeda, were truly the biggest part of the threat in Iraq, which they aren't, then by all means let's shift and launch a D-day style offensive into Wazaristan and upset Osama Bin Laden's tea time at his headquarters---after all according to this ghostwriter Al Qaeda is the biggest threat and therefore shouldn't we cue off the past successful military strategy of D-day and take the fight directly to Osama's capital? It's pretty much a well worn military principle, to defeat the enemy destroy their home and headquarters. Of course we all know the neoconists have better ideas...involving someone else's brave son or daughter.
Certainly our brave forces are true warriors doing impressive things under the most trying of times. Let us not forget that we sustained the highest losses in this campaign of securing a fragile peace during the surge---chiefly now held together by paying off Al Sadr to play nice. Yet, power and water are still major problems in Baghdad, and most glaringly the rival parties of Iraq have not come together, perhaps that may be because their political representatives were selected in a truly undemocratic process---a slate of candidates were picked by the puppets of the US---so much for bringing "democracy" to Iraq.
Finally, the neocon propagandist consistently pump up the lie that criticizing the war policies or policymakers is an attack upon the troops. In reality, they crassly seek to blunt legitimate criticism by wrapping their loopy rhetoric around our brave forces efforts. To put it simply, the neoconists bankrupt ideal of building a democracy in a region historically driven by religious and tribal cultures is simply idiotic.
No WMD, No Saddam, mission accomplished, for those who want to stay and jockey for oil contracts let's just hire another Blackwater style army and contract it out but let our troops come home.
Ollie, Ollie, Ollie... why couldn't you just honor the D-Day Veterans and leave the politics out of it?
