A New European

Iraq’s outgoing interior minister predicted Monday that his country’s emerging police and army may be capable of securing the nation in 18 months, saying his officers are beginning to take over from coalition forces.

Erst unterstuetzen sie nicht wie von den Europaern verlangt den “Widerstand” und nun wollen sie noch den EU-Traum von einer unvermeidlichen 40-jaehrigen Praesenz der US-Army im Irak - welche Zeit fuer die Gruendung einer EU-Wehrmacht lassen wuerde - in Frage stellen. Eine Frechheit so etwas!

Das Pentagon sieht den Widerstand ebenfalls schwindend:

In the privacy of their E-ring offices, senior Pentagon officials have begun to entertain thoughts that were unimaginable a year ago: Iraq is turning the corner.

Military officials and analysts say the clearing out of enemy-infested Fallujah in November, the Jan. 30 elections and the increasing willingness of Iraqis to fight and die for a democratic country are contributing to the momentum.

“This is still a tough fight. We don’t want anyone to think that it is not,” said retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a military analyst who strongly supports Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. “But the momentum is in our direction.”

Blutdurck und Atmung von Grass und Scholl-Latour ueberpruefen. SOFORT!

A military source in Iraq declined to give raw number of attacks, but said, “There has been a decided downward trend in the number and lethality of attacks since the January 30 elections.”

A Pentagon official said the more that intelligence agencies analyze the insurgency, the clearer it becomes that a large part is criminal, not nationalistic.

Damit waere es offiziell: Die Europaer und die Medien unterstuetzen mit ihren Fantasien vom Widerstand und den Rebellen schlicht und ergreifend Kriminelle. Gratulation!

But Iraqis continue to sign up. After an even bloodier attack in January against Iraqis in line to apply for police jobs, a still-longer line formed the next day at the same spot, said a U.S. Army officer in Iraq.

And last week, merchants and residents on one of Baghdad’s main streets joined the fight by using their own guns to kill three terrorists, who were firing on passers-by.

Das ist der Widerstand!

Gen. Chiarelli is also touting the carrot and stick. Attacks in the Shi’ite Baghdad slum Sadr City fell to nearly zero after Army units crushed insurgents and then quickly put hundreds of dwellers to work building basic comforts of home: water, sewer and electric service.

Jesus Christus und Mohammend, sie haben sogar einen Plan! Die dummen Amis haben einen Plan und er funktioniert! Ich pack’s nicht…

Aber das war die Washington Times und in Amerika ist ja sowieso aller gleichgeschaltet. Ganz im Gegensatz zu den zum Beispiel vorbildlichen deutschen Medien, welche ja immer beiden Seiten gleich viel Zeit widmen. Ehm, oder war’s umgekehrt?

Nun muss sich aber die Kriminellenunterstuetzung (Friedensbewegung) auf einen herben Schlag gefasst machen! Der Guardian kommt zum gleichen Schluss wie das Pentagon…

The Iraqi resistance has peaked and is ‘turning in on itself’, according to recent intelligence reports from Baghdad received by Middle Eastern intelligence agencies.

The reports are the most optimistic for several months and reflect analysts’ sense that recent elections in Iraq marked a ‘quantum shift’. They will boost the government in the run-up to the expected general election in May.

Danke fuer die Ausdauer, George W.!