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Republican National Committee - Eat Crow, Iraq War Skeptics

WASHINGTON, June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following op-ed written by Arthur Herman from the New York Post is being issued by the Republican National Committee:

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America has won, or is about to win, theIraq war.

The latest proof came last month, as the Iraqi army -- just a few months ago the target of scorn and abuse from Democratic politicians and journalists -- forcefully reoccupied three cities that had served as key insurgency bases (Basra, Sadr City andMosul).

Sunnis and Shias alike applauded as their nation's army compelled insurgent militias to lay down their arms. The country's leading opposition newspaper, Azzaman, led the applause for the move intoMosul -- a sign that national reconciliation inIraq is under way and probably irreversible. ...

In a Washington Post interview, CIA Director Michael Hayden said we're witnessing the "near strategic defeat of al Qaeda inIraq." ...

Now the strategy, which our nation's "best and brightest" regularly dismissed as a failure, has cleared the way for the establishment of a secure democracy inIraq and a lasting peace. ...

In wars, however, trends have their own momentum. And the trend is running away from al Qaeda and its jihadist allies -- not only inIraq but also across theMiddle East. ...

And al Qaeda's fugitive leadership is learning that its former safe haven along the Afghan-Pakistan border is no longer so safe. Thanks to cooperation withPakistan's new government, unmanned US Predator drones recently killed two top al Qaeda leaders there.

Once Gen. David Petraeus is confirmed as commander of US forces in theMiddle East in July, he'll be able to apply the same strategy for victory learned in theIraq surge to the war inAfghanistan.

In short, the larger War on Terror may be reaching a tipping point similar to that of theIraq war. ...

It's not mere coincidence that our success against al Qaeda globally comes along with success inIraq. For all its setbacks and frustrations, theIraq war drew jihadists into a battle they thought they could win, because it would be fought on their home turf -- but which they're now losing disastrously. ...

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