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@ pinkerton
[Read the article: Howard Kurtz and the royal Kagans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With all of Glenn's blather about who's related to whom, he somehow fails to get around to mentioning that Kagan's central point is correct: the surge is working.
Ummm, Glenn's comments were to the effect that Kagan has been reliably and repeatedly wrong on everything else in the past.
You can get it here, straight from the mouht (or keyboard) of Iraqis on the ground, witnessing its success:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009754
Ummm, the esteemed Wall Stree Journal editorial staff are out hoofing it through the Iraqi landscape? One could hope.... ;-)
Or you mean they're cherry-picking individual "Iraqi" 'reports' off the web (kind of like listening to Chalabi's thugs in advance of the war...)? The ol' "proof by personal experience" stuff?
Here's today's entries from "http://icasualties.org/oif":
03/13/07 deseretnews: Utah soldier dies in non-combat incident
Army Sgt. 1st Class Douglas C. Stone of Kearns died in Iraq Sunday during a non-combat related incident. "That incident is still under investigation," said Army spokesman Claude McKinney of the Army Reserve 96th Regional Readiness Command.
03/13/07 MCT: One-quarter of Iraq, Afghanistan veterans filing injury claims
More than a quarter of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have filed injury claims with the government...Of the nearly 690,000 veterans who served in those combat zones, more than 180,000 had filed claims by the end of last year, the report showed.
03/13/07 kltv: Thousands Of Veterans Return With Mental Illness
Nearly a third of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who received care from Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005 were diagnosed with mental health or psychosocial ills, a new study concludes.
03/13/07 FreshAir: Journalists Document Military Mental-Health Failings
Journalists Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman of The Hartford Courant have been awarded the George Polk Award for their series from May on flaws in the military's mental health system: Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight.
03/13/07 AsiaTimes: Iraqi Kurds fear a new war
The fragile quiet in this no-man's land was broken by a young fighter shooting into the air at a regular morning ceremony to "commemorate martyrs". The firing was more than ceremonial. A new threat of war is looming in this mountain range...
03/13/07 Reuters: Katyusha rocket hits street in central Baghdad - 2 killed
A Katyusha rocket landed on a commercial street of Karrada in central Baghdad, killing two people and wounding two others, police said.
03/13/07 Reuters: 15 bodies found in Baghdad
A total of 15 bodies with gunshot wounds were found on Monday in different districts of Baghdad, police said.
03/13/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill 3 policemen in Baghdad
Gunmen opened fire at a police vehicle killing three policemen and wounding two in Zayuna district in eastern Baghdad, police said.
03/13/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 1, wounds 2 in northern Baghdad
A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded two people in northern Baghdad, police said
03/13/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill policeman in Kirkuk
Gunmen opened fire at a police patrol killing one policeman and wounding three in the northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
03/13/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill director of mechanical industries company
Gunmen killed Hatam Muhsin, the general director of mechanical industries company, in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
03/13/07 Reuters: Iraqi translater killed in Kut
Gunmen killed an Iraqi translator working for the U.S. military on Monday in the city of Kut, 170 km (105 miles) south east of Baghdad, police said.
03/13/07 Reuters: Police arrest 2 leaders of insurgent group
Police arrested Ahmed Faraj and Ali Jassim, leaders in the 20th Revolutionary Brigades insurgent group, in Abu Ghraib district in the western outskirts of Baghdad, Brigadier Abdul-Kareem Khalaf, Interior Ministry spokesman, told Reuters.
03/13/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 4 firefighters in Kirkuk
A roadside bomb killed four firefighters on Monday when it exploded near their vehicle in a town near Kirkuk, police said.
03/13/07 Xinhua : Three Iraqis killed in shooting, bombing attacks north of Baghdad
Three people were killed, with another one kidnapped, in separate shooting and bombing attacks in Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad on Tuesday morning, a local police source told Xinhua.
03/13/07 AP: 700 more U.S. soldiers arrive in troubled Diyala province
More than 700 additional U.S. troops arrived in Iraq's increasingly volatile Diyala province today to try to quell burgeoning violence northeast of Baghdad during a security crackdown in the capital.
03/13/07 AP: Iraqi PM visits Sunni insurgent stronghold
Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister on Tuesday made a groundbreaking and unannounced visit to Ramadi, the Sunni insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad, a senior staff member told The Associated Press.
Well, maybe it'll be different tomorrow....
Cheers,