Washington Times: Democrats for Defeatism !

McCain rips Democrats for 'defeatism'
By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times

John McCain, fresh off a trip to Iraq, attacked Democrats yesterday for a "choose to lose" approach to the war, as the Arizona senator tries to find common ground with the Republican primary voters who have deserted him in recent months.

"Defeatism will not buy peace in our time," Mr. McCain said in a speech in New Hampshire. It was his first major campaign event since he announced dismal second-quarter fund-raising efforts and his two top national-campaign operatives resigned and took other staffers with them out the door.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070714/NATION/107140029/1001

Weekly Standard: Congress Doing It's Best to Insure Defeat

Keep on Surgin' Bush is beating them back.
by William Kristol, The Weekly Standard

I don't think Congress ought to be running the war. I think they ought to be funding the troops.
--George W. Bush, press conference, July 12, 2007

President Bush is absolutely right. But in a way his admonition to Congress at his press conference last week was unfair. He's correct that Congress can't run a war. But this Congress doesn't want to run a war. It wants to lose a war. Congress can, in principle, achieve this, and the Democrats who control this Congress are doing their best to bring it about.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/877zcqqk.asp

Krauthammer on Deserting Pertaues ..

July 13, 2007
Deserting Petraeus
By Charles Krauthammer

"The key to turning [Anbar] around was the shift in allegiance by tribal sheiks. But the sheiks turned only after a prolonged offensive by American and Iraqi forces, starting in November, that put al-Qaeda groups on the run."

-- The New York Times, July 8

Finally, after four terribly long years, we know what works. Or what can work. A year ago, a confidential Marine intelligence report declared Anbar province (which comprises about a third of Iraq's territory) lost to al-Qaeda. Now, in what the Times's John Burns calls an " astonishing success," the tribal sheiks have joined our side and committed large numbers of fighters that, in concert with American and Iraqi forces, have largely driven out al-Qaeda and turned its former stronghold of Ramadi into one of most secure cities in Iraq.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/07/deserting_petraeus.html

TCS Daily on Responsibiliy for the Mess ...

Who Is Responsible for the Mess in Mesopotamia?

Thomas Donnelly has pointed out one of many dissonant elements in mainstream media (MSM) coverage of the Iraq war. On Sunday, July 8, The New York Times editorial page stridently called for the U.S. to "leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit."

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=071307A