Kudos to her for actually going there and seeing for herself after all the "reporting" from afar, it is good to see that she put her money where her mouth is and traveled to Iraq to see things for herself.
(CBS) BAGHDAD, Iraq One week before Gen. David Petraeus is expected to give his report on U.S. progress in Iraq, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric says she has already seen dramatic improvements in the country.
"We hear so much about things going bad, but real progress has been made there in terms of security and stability," Couric said Tuesday. "I mean, obviously, infrastructure problems abound, but Sunnis and U.S. forces are working together. They banded together because they had a common enemy: al Qaeda."
She won't be popular with the left for this, but it is a step in the right direction and goes to show it is easy to pass judgment from what one sees in the media but those that have gone to Iraq, including many Democratic politicians, scholars and reporters, they are coming home with news of hope, success and progress that has occurred since the surge went fully into affect.
One of those Democratic politicians was Brian Baird, a war critic who has voted against every action in iraq since 2003, came back and said "Our Troops have earned more time" and he is not being targeted for those comments by groups like MoveOn.org.
From the Opinion Journal:
In the Hell Hath No Fury sweepstakes, groups like MoveOn.org are gearing up to take on a new set of perceived traitors in their midst--Democrats who have acknowledged some success from the troop surge in Iraq.
Chief among the targets is Washington Congressman Brian Baird, whose indiscretion was recognizing progress on the ground, despite having initially opposed the surge and having opposed the war in the first place. After a recent trip to Iraq, Mr. Baird said: "One of the things that gets very little attention is that virtually every other country I visited says it would be a mistake to pull out now."
We hope he took his flak jacket home from Baghdad. MoveOn is rolling out an ad this week in Mr. Baird's Washington district, in which a former soldier tells of being shot at in 2003 by the Iraqis he had fought to liberate and calls America's continued presence in the country "wrong, immoral and irresponsible." What does this have to do with the wisdom--or lack thereof--of the current strategy? Nada, which tells you something about MoveOn's honesty.
The far left Democrats like Pelosi and Reid would like to ignore the fact that they claimed that Iraq was lost and the surge was accomplishing noting militarily and now wish to change the rhetoric to lack of political progress, but no one will forget the original goal post Harry Reid so stupidly placed about "military progress accomplishing nothing" and no one will let them forget it either.
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