Yon And Instie Declare Victory In Iraq

By Cernig

Michael Yon, the Right's favorite "good news" war correspondent has declared victory in Iraq, telling Instapundit Glenn Reynolds "The war is over, and we won".

And the wingnut blogosphere seems ready to take them at their word. What a pity Yon couldn't have phoned Instie before the elections, eh?

I think thats probably a bit over-optimistic of them. So do Gen. Petraeus and the entire U.S. intelligence community, but what does they know, compared with Yon, Reynolds and the Fighting Keyboarders? However, since they believe it, can we have all the troops home now? Not just over the course of a few years, but right now?

Comments

[Peter G.]

Troops home now? Apparently not. Due to overbooking of return flights they will have to stay for an indeterminate while longer.

[Batocchio]

Plus, a school was painted, too!

No word yet, though, on the 4-5 million displaced Iraqis...

[DoktorN]

Any day now, I expect to hear the argument that we can't bring the troops home because they'll face unemployment, especially those guys who have been endlessly stop-lossed and long ago gave up any hope of returning to their old jobs. So we'll have to keep them in Iraq in order to hold down the jobless levels. In fact, when GM goes belly up, maybe we can send their ex-workers over there too.

War as employment policy. Given the insanity we've been fed the past eight years, it seems like a natural progression.