We are Winning in Iraq

The MSM here has predictably been trying to spin this latest gun fight as the US attacking worshippers at a mosque. According to the US military, corroborated by local police and witnesses, (Reuters, I guess they don't know which side to be on so they have to tell the truth), Iraqi forces were involved, they were going to break up a Shiite kidnapping terror cell and were fired upon from an ordinary building. The hostage was a dental technician. (They wanted $20,000 from him or they would kidnap his daughter.) (A dental technician!!!)

Jack Kelly, via RCP on Sunday's gunfight in Iraq:

If the Shia militias have become the number one security problem in Iraq, it is less because the threat they pose has grown than because that posed by Sunni "insurgents" has receded.

If Sunday's moves marked a concerted campaign against radical militias, "this indicates the U.S. and Iraqi army are calculating there is enough space to open a second front," said military blogger Bill Roggio.

Back on March 18th, StrategyPage reported that: "the U.S. has told Iran that the Iraqi Shia militias being supported by Iran (the Badr and Sadr organizations) are going to get taken apart soon, and Iran is well advised to back off when this happens."

"Al Qaida is beaten, and running for cover," StrategyPage said Sunday. "The Sunni Arab groups that financed thousands of attacks against the government and coalition groups are now battling al Qaida, each other, and Shia death squads."

We are winning in Iraq.