For his courage to propose an increase in troops, when the left was crying, literally yelling out for us to “redeploy” (surrender), led by the likes of Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink, and cowards like John Murtha, we proudly list as our current BOLT, General David Petraeus.Surrounded by a cut and run Congress controlled by Democrats of the fabric of Reid and Pelosi (no ideas, just criticize Bush), it appeared as though the war was heading for a nice big fat loss for us and the World. But due to the stalwart efforts of Bush and Petraeus, we might just be snatching victory from the jaws of a defeat… but this defeat was nearly imposed by liberals.

The details are rather impressive. Iraqi deaths are down and at lows that would have been unexpected last January. Same goes for U.S. deaths. In an area of Iraq that truly was run by the likes of Al Qaida, Sunni and Shiite insurgents, Petraeus and the U.S. military have imposed a calm and control that just might be enough to allow for the second part of the plan to take place: the political progress that Iraqi’s must provide now.

In August of this year, US deaths were reported at 84. In September, 65, and in October, 36. Well over 20,000 Shiites and Sunni’s have signed up to join the fight in the last four months. Iraqi deaths have declined sharply as well. August was at 1,956 Iraqi deaths; September 1,023, and October was on a pace for under 900.

This creates one heck of a problem for Democrats that have voted against war funding, or those that have openly criticized not only the policy set forth by the President (such as the surge), but even perpetuated the overall sentiment that the war was lost.

What a terrible place to be in, going into 2008. If the war continues to progress with success, and political progress is more clear, what will the electorate do with Democrats who vociferously stated that we had lost, or that they would de-fund us into surrender?

Even more terrible is to be in the unpatriotic position that you voted against funding troops, while trying to pass it off as “support” because you were saving them from losing a war that they could not win in the middle of a “Civil War” in Iraq.

I sure hope the success continues. I am not sure that most liberals can say the same. They know that will mean they will be handed their hats next election if it does. Amazingly, I imagine most of them secretly hope things will worsen and that we will lose…

What a shame… Thank God we had those two Bolts (Bush and Petraeus) to hold us together.

But right now our hat is off for the General.

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