The Hammond Report

Yes, I'm ready to admit there is a quagmire in Iraq. The war is just not going well and there must be a withdrawal and surrender.

We're floundering in a quagmire in Iraq. Our strategy is flawed, and it's too late to change it. Our resources have been squandered, our best people killed, we're hated by the natives and our reputation around the world is circling the drain. We must withdraw.

This is from an article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and I have to agree with it. The quote above is the author channeling Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaida. It is they who are in a quagmire, not the US.  Al-Qaida is in serious trouble and their ability to continue waging this war on us is rapidly diminishing.

Jihadis, money and weapons were poured into Iraq. All for naught. Al-Qaida has been driven from every neighborhood in Baghdad, Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil, the U.S. commander there, said Nov. 7. This follows the expulsion of al-Qaida from two previous «capitals» of its Islamic Republic of Iraq, Ramadi and Baquba.

Al-Qaida is evacuating populated areas and is trying to establish hideouts in the Hamrin mountains in northern Iraq, with U.S. and Iraqi security forces, and former insurgent allies who have turned on them, in hot pursuit. Forty-five al-Qaida leaders were killed or captured in October alone.

Al-Qaida's support in the Muslim world has plummeted, partly because of the terror group's lack of success in Iraq, more because al-Qaida's attacks have mostly killed Muslim civilians.

The MSM is failing to report any of the the success we are achieving and our own lefty bloggers want very much for this to be an anomaly. They need this war to fail so they can win the next election and advance their left wing agenda. It's unfortunate that there are Americans who wish us to fail just so they can win an election.

«The situation has changed so unmistakably and so swiftly that we should be reading proud headlines daily,» said Ralph Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel. «Where are they?»

Mr. Peters suspects the paucity of news coverage from Iraq these days is because «things are going annoyingly well.»

Annoying indeed.