The Confetti Falls, but the Quagmire Remains!

:: by R. Frank | R. Frank's bio |

US soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, including Staff Sergeant Chad Touchett, centre, after seizing the presidential palace in Baghdad. Photograph: John Moore /AP

As the military experts in the media opined about failed war plans, quagmires, a drawn-out conflict, and "unexpected fierce resistance" last week, Newsweek gave a thumbs down to

Vice President Cheney for telling "Meet the Press" just before the war: "We will be greeted as liberators." Newsweek dubbed this statement: "An arrogant blunder for the ages."

Newsweek, you've never been so transparent. Literally a day or two after that issue came out, and once the fear of Saddam melted to realization that there was no longer a need to fear Saddam, the Iraqi people took to the streets, whooping it up, hugging our soldiers, and asking "what took you so long?". Thanks to the doubt-America crowd, we were starting to doubt ourselves. It's a good thing we didn't act on Dennis Kucinich's suggestion to pull our 260,000 troops back as soon as the first shot was fired. Weak-minded Liberal appeasement thinking... it's scary, but you've got to laugh at it.

The frenzied cheering over the toppling of the gargantuan Saddam statue in Baghdad this morning by the liberated and ecstatic Iraqis was breached by Peter Jennings' furor over the temporary unfurling of the American flag over the statue's head. How dare the Marines send the crowd into more frenzied cheers by displaying the stars and stripes... I'm a Canadian, damn it, and I've proudly decided not to tarnish my lapel with an American flag pin while on the air!

Although the cheering of the Iraqi crowd made the mood at Yankee stadium last time they won the World Series look like a funeral service, it's a sad day for the media as they have to begrudgingly report the fall of Baghdad. The predominant question being asked on the air is: "after the cheering and dancing, then what?" (to translate: the New York Times was right, we're still bogged down in a quagmire! Hopes of an apocalypse on the horizon still remain). I'm sure the Democratic leadership lemmings will take a break from plunging their clogged-up toilets tonight to emulate the Iraqi Information Minister we've all come to love and laugh at.

So Baghdad is in total "disarray" and Saddam has "lost his grip" now that his statue lies broken in liberated Baghdad's town square. I was pretty much thinking that his grip was lost this past weekend when I saw a bunch of Marines in Saddam's favorite palace- one of them relaxing in Saddam's throne: slouching, sucking on a Marlboro. Grip lost.

Clearly, pockets of resistance remain, but the liberation of Iraq is a reality. I hear the jubilant Iraqi crowd cheer "George Bush good, George Bush good"... these people, no doubt with inferior exposure to education, are much smarter than the entirety of the anti-liberation appeasement movement, France, Germany, our mainstream media, some former presidents of ours, and most liberal Democrats.

The fun part is going to be watching liberals that opposed Bush's desire liberate Iraq insist "No, this is great... it's what we all wanted the whole time."

Yeah right.

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