Hell Freezes Over: Murtha Says The Surge Is Working!

November 30, 2007 · Filed Under Liberals, World News

I honesty didn’t think a single one of the “defeatocrats” had the “stones” to admit that the troop surge in Iraq is working. Apparently, hell has in fact frozen over or I’m experiencing the initial signs of schizophrenia, because it appears that John Murtha has finally admitted what most people already know. That the troop surge he promised would not work is working!!

“I think the ’surge’ is working,” the Democrat said in a videoconference from his Johnstown office, describing the president’s decision to commit more than 20,000 additional combat troops this year. But the Iraqis “have got to take care of themselves.”

Violence has dropped significantly in recent months, but Mr. Murtha said he was most encouraged by changes in the once-volatile Anbar province, where locals have started working closely with U.S. forces to isolate insurgents linked to Al Qaeda.

Democrats in recent weeks have used every excuse conceivable for why things are improving in Iraq, steadfastly maintaining that even if things are getting better it’s not because of the troop surge.

They could chalk it up to a an act of god (or Allah as the case may be), but as we all know Democrats are a secular “peoples” so that’s also out.

Provided Mr. Murtha doesn’t suddenly hold another press conference and accuse our troops of “murdering civilians in cold blood” we might just be on the right track.

-Chris Jones