President Bush, recognizing the errors made, shifted to a Counterinsurgency plan referred to as “The Surge. The plan was a dramatic success, accomplishing its twin goals of breaking the back of the various Islamist insurrections and creating an unprecedented atmosphere of security for the Iraqi people. But the Democrats were desperate to undermine our military, shown most infamously when General David Petraeus was preparing to testify to Congress on the progress made. A Democratic Senator told Politico, “No one wants to call [Petraeus] a liar on national TV… the expectation is that the outside groups will do this for us.” And within a few days, the Democrats’ activist arm, MoveOn.org, published a full-page advertisement in the New York Times under the blaring headline: “General Petraeus or General Betray us? Cooking the books for the White House.” In fact, the Times gave MoveOn.org a 64% discount to run the smear. The Democrats knew what they were saying wasn’t true. We now know this thanks to Robert Gates in his memoir Duty. In a meeting between Secretary of Defense Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama and other administration officials on October 26, 2009, “Hillary told the president that her opposition to the surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary. She went on to say, ‘The Iraq surge worked.’ The President conceded vaguely that opposition to the Iraq surge had been political. To hear the two of them making these admissions, and in front of me, was as surprising as it was dismaying.”
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 01:34:22 +0000
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