VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility. Yet now the administration’s critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.

Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.

Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, liberal military and Middle East policy wonks at the liberal Brookings Institution, go on to say:

Today, morale is high. The soldiers and marines told us they feel that they now have a superb commander in Gen. David Petraeus; they are confident in his strategy, they see real results, and they feel now they have the numbers needed to make a real difference.

Funny how actually being on the ground in Iraq and seeing the progress being made tends to give you a different perspective than sitting in Washington D.C. and spouting inane, partisan crap pulled out of your rectum meant to appease the radical leftist Bush-hating fringe. Perhaps San Fran Nan's time in the Middle East could have been better spent finding out what was going on in Iraq instead of kissing a terrorist's ass.

This isn't "a war we might just win"; it is, in fact, an absurdity to even consider that the finest fighting force the world has ever seen could possibly LOSE this war if they were allowed to fight it like a war instead of a glorified PC encounter group and had unified support at home. Unfortunately, liberal politicians are far too wrapped up in kissing the asses of the most radical leftists among us to let a little thing like THE FACTS get in the way. Consider the trouble we'd be in if we had one of the current crop of leftie pander bears as president racing to get of or Iraq damn the cost.

Certainly, everything has not gone as well as it could in Iraq or in the War on Terror in general, but this largely has to do with the fact that we have been fighting this war exactly as the liberals want us to: Not to win it, but to not offend, defile, torture, shoot, capture, wound, injure or damage the enemy in any way -- then wring your hands in agony if any of the aforementioned happen. AND .... if an innocent person happens to get in the way and get killed or injured, it's murder, by God and the soldier MUST be brought up on charges.

It is absurd to think that ANY military force can win a war if you tie its hands in such a fashion but it appears that this surge is making such a positive difference that now even liberals can't deny it. What are the commie lib politicians to do now? How can they continue to make a case for losing this war?