saw this and just had to share
h/t redstate

not my statements, but a statement in an editorial yesterday by two of the most non-"neoconservatives" critics of the Iraq War.
you can read their editorial over at The New York Times with the title

"A War We Just Might Win"

now, what exactly does this mean?
well people much more versed in what it all means breaks it down for us this morning over at The National Review Online..
the article there is titled:

Turning Point?

now, this isn't to say that Dingy Harry and Purse-Strings Pelosi are going to just do an about-face on this war..
it isn't even to say that they will listen to General Petraus' report in September on the progress of the surge…
however, what it does do is put a HUGE chink in their anit-war rhetoric that we are losing this war…
just 6 months ago, I was about ready to believe them considering all the failures of the Bush Administration…
but, with the surge in place and a General in place who actually knows what he is doing…
with an administration bent on learning from its mistakes and making changes and progress (although many don't see the changes thanks to the MSM blackout), I am beginning to see what I hope many Americans are seeing…

progress…

Gordon Brown, the new British Prime Minister, is meeting with President Bush at Camp David for the first time since he took office and replaced the long-time, Bush-confidant Tony Blair.
Many Democrats had believed the rhetoric in the British gossip magazines that Brown was different than Blair and had even hinted at withdrawing British troops from Iraq this year.
However, in the first news conference during the meeting Brown probably sent Dingy Harry and Purse-Strings Pelosi into cardiac arrest.
Along with all the other anti-war advocates in the Democratic Party.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told President Bush Monday he shares the U.S. view that there are “duties to discharge and responsibilities to keep” in Iraq. “Our aim, like the United States is, step-by-step, to move control to the Iraqi authorities,” Brown said, joining Bush at a news conference at the president’s Maryland mountaintop ranch.

Brown said that decisions about troops would only be made “on the military advice of our commanders on the ground,” echoing language often heard from Bush.

Did you catch that Dingy and Purse-Strings??
Brown said he would listen to people who were actually fighting the fight in Iraq.
Not some liberal journalist sent over to Iraq to report bogus stories about troop disgraces and other atrocities of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Shocking that someone else listens to the Commanders as well.
Maybe he is just as "ignorant" as President Bush.
Or maybe, just maybe, they aren't the ignorant ones after all. Hmmm…..

going to start a new game here on RazorPress..
it is really quite simply and could be fun or at least amusing for some of those reading the site…

the game is called "Missing MSM Headlines"…
quite simply, every now and then I will post an entry on the site with the MMH moniker in the upper left hand corner…
that simply alerts the reader that you are to try and find the first mention of the story in my blog entry on any MSM website…

so, here goes…

Locals Helping MNF-I

On July 23, a local Iraqi man came to Patrol Base Inchon, near the Euphrates River, staffed by Company D, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., and elements of the 4th Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division. He told troops that several other residents had chased a group of anti-Iraqi forces away from a weapons cache. He asked Soldiers to remove the weapons.

now see if you can find a mention of this happening in Baghdad on one of the many MSM websites…
have fun and good luck…

ok, so tell me where you will see any of these things reported in the MSM or the DBM…

Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person’s face with piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of al-Qaeda in Iraq are daring to become informants for the US military in a hostile Baghdad neighbourhood.

The ground-breaking move in Doura is part of a wider trend that has started in other al-Qaeda hotspots across the country and in which Sunni insurgent groups and tribal sheikhs have stood together with the coalition against the extremist movement.

“They are turning. We are talking to people who we believe have worked for al-Qaeda in Iraq and want to reconcile and have peace,” said Colonel Ricky Gibbs, commander of the 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, which oversees the area.

You won't find it in any American paper…only in the UK will you get news like this

you won't hear this in America, b/c the Democrats make damn well sure the only thing you hear about the war in Iraq is how horrible of a failure that it is…
just remember this article the next time you hear a Democrat talk about "secretariat violence" in Iraq….

President Bush's fault for going to war with Iraq…

just when you thought you might have heard it all….you haven't