AZGOP SPECIAL REPORT: TURNING THE TIDE IN IRAQ!

The following includes an Associated Press report dated yesterday, October 23, 2007. A link to the story in its entirety is at the conclusion of this AZGOP Special Report.

We send this out today to stress the importance of our standing by our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardsmen – and our President and military leaders – whose resolve is turning the tide in Iraq.

America and our freedom-loving allies around the world cannot show any cracks in our resolve to defeat Al Qaeda or other terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere around the world. To do so would be tantamount to an invitation for their terror to strike again on American soil. Just as wrong, to do so would be to admit that their campaigns of fear could ever be tolerated.

“They have to be convinced that we're not leaving. That's the issue. If they were to think we're leaving we'd have also sorts of trouble,” Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said in the AP report. General Lynch is a senior American commander on the ground in Iraq. We at the Arizona Republican Party happen to trust strategists like General Lynch far more than surrender-happy armchair quarterbacks like Democrat US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid or Democrat US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who seem more concerned with their next election than with the actual realities of our military operations and the future of our country.

ON TO VICTORY!
~Randy Pullen, Chairman

Emphasis (bolding) has been added to the following AP report:

SHARP DROP SEEN IN U.S. DEATHS IN IRAQ
By STEVEN R. HURST

BAGHDAD (AP) — October is on course to record the second consecutive decline in U.S. military and Iraqi civilian deaths and Americans commanders say they know why: the U.S. troop increase and an Iraqi groundswell against al-Qaida and Shiite militia extremists.

Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch points to what the military calls "Concerned Citizens" — both Shiites and Sunnis who have joined the American fight. He says he's signed up 20,000 of them in the past four months.

"I've never been more optimistic than I am right now with the progress we've made in Iraq. The only people who are going to win this counterinsurgency project are the people of Iraq. We've said that all along. And now they're coming forward in masses," Lynch said in a recent interview at a U.S. base deep in hostile territory south of Baghdad. Outgoing artillery thundered as he spoke.

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