Posted by
Saint Michael on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:20:05 PM
To continue my fortune telling skills I will unveil my next amazing prediction.
Some Democrats, and I am paraphrasing, have stated that if there is no change in Iraq by September that it will be a grim month for the Bush Administration.
Here's my prediction. No matter what happens on the ground, whether progress is made or not, the Democrats in Congress will claim that the surge in troops did not work. To reinforce that perspective the MSM and the Democrats will continue to present Doom and Gloom for the next 4 months. We will see very few stories of progress and an overwhelming number of stories about death and destruction.
We will see an increased number of American combat deaths during the next 4 months which will get spun as a lack progress. The reality is that a surge means that more troops will head into combat situations to secure the areas within Baghdad. It doesn't take a rocket scientists to realize that more troops in combat means a higher death rate. That is an accepted risk of the surge.
The only way to win this war is to fight this war. We cannot keep "hoping" the situation on the ground will get better. The only way it get's better is to take action and that action has risks. War is an inherently risky business and soldiers know those risks when they take the oath to defend America.
I am not downplaying the lives of the soldiers who will die in the next 4 months because they will have sacrificed in an extremely important mission. When the surge prevails, there will be a different situation on the ground in Iraq. Based on my prediction, the American people will never know that the surge prevailed because the MSM will not report it and the Democrats in Congress will downplay any progress.
Sadly, this fall will be a good time for Democrats regardless of whether or not the surge works.