Sunni Insurgent Group Drives Al Qaeda from Sammara

Oh my God! Can it get any worse for Osama bin Laden or his allies among the Democrats in Congress?

First the ground work. Al Qaeda is a group spawned from the Wahabi sect of the Sunni religion, therefore they are Sunnis; or as the United States Department of State defined them:

"a radical Sunni Muslim umbrella organization established to recruit young Muslims into the Afghani mujahideen and is aimed to establish Islamist states throughout the world, overthrow ‘un-Islamic regimes’, expel U.S. soldiers and Western influence from the Gulf, and capture Jerusalem as a Muslim city."

The State Department must have been using President Bush's lexicon when they wrote this..."un-Islamic?" I guess that is Bush-speak for "non-Islamic." Hey who am I to quibble with their choice of words? It only slightly bothers me that President Bush sounds a lot like Yogi Berra.

So what we are seeing is Iraqi Sunni's, without the help United States troops, or Iraqi Army troops, taking on and defeating elements of al Qaeda in Iraq. Note that among those killed were two non-Iraqi Arabs (in other words outside agitators) and an Iranian...imagine that, an Iranian. Who could have guessed?

Here's the Reuters article:

Iraqi insurgents' clash with Qaeda kills 16

Sat Oct 27, 10:14 AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A battle between al Qaeda in Iraq and a major Sunni Arab insurgent group killed at least 16 militants on Friday near the ancient city of Samarra, a senior security officer told Reuters on Saturday.

The fighting involved the Islamic Army, a nationalist group that has been hostile to al Qaeda since June and has fought the Sunni Islamist group in areas of Baghdad and some Sunni towns.

A security source in Salahuddin province, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two non-Iraqi Arabs and an Iranian were among those killed in the battle.

"The clashes ended yesterday with militants from the Islamic Army taking control of the area," he said. The area had been controlled by al Qaeda for months.

"No Iraqi or U.S. forces intervened in the battle," he said.

This has got to worry old Harry Reid and his cadre of pro-terrorist cheerleaders in the Democrat Party. No wonder their voices are getting more strident, the biggest election issue they have had, failure to achieve our goals in Iraq, is evaporating right in front of them.

This blows the Democat's entire election plan for 2008 right out the door. How can you declare President Bush's policy a failure when it is bearing fruit right before your very eyes? The Democrats have been betting very heavily on our losing the war in Iraq. Before President Bush's troop surge even got going, old "Snively Whiplash" Reid was declaring it a failure and now suddenly we are seeing Sunni tribesmen attacking an al Qaeda strong-hold and taking back an area which had been under al Qaeda control for "months."

None of this comes as a surprise to me; we have been hearing the ground-swell for some time now. Sunnis, liberated by our offensive from their fears of reprisal by terrorists, are beginning to flock to the Iraqi government's side, and fight back against the real foreign oppressors, the al Qaeda terrorists and their allies.

We are not close to the end of this Iraqi war for freedom, but this is a sure and certain sign that we are beginning to make headway. There remain a lot of difficult political and economic issues to be settled, but at least the Suunis are joining in the fight and at least on the local level are assisting American troops and Iraqi troops rather than trying to kill them.

We still have a long way to go to get to a stable, self-sustaining, Iraqi state fully capable of defending itself from outside enemies, but this is another big step towards, rather than away from, progress.

You can bet that the Democrat nay-sayers are squirming in their seats at this news. The more successful the President's new policy in Iraq becomes the less comfortable the Democrats will be. Commensurate with that, the less Iraq war stories will be featured on the front pages of the Paleo-media (the Times and the Post) and the mainstream media (CNN and the alphabet networks). They will attempt to play down this good news, but they cannot silence those of us out here in the neo-media.

The gamble the Democrats made long ago in basing their election policies on our failure in Iraq, of which they have been so certain and into which they have been putting so much effort for short term political advantage, is about to explode in their faces.

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Long Live Our American Republic!!!

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