Jack Kingston

The following AP story notes how important the death of al-Zarqawi and the raid of his hideout has been to the Iraqi government:

“Iraq’s national security adviser said Thursday a “huge treasure” of documents and computer records was seized after the raid on terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s hideout, giving the Iraqi government the upper hand in its fight against al-Qaida in Iraq.”

Al-Rubaie said a laptop, flashdrive and other documents were found in the debris after the airstrike that killed the al-Qaida in Iraq leader last week outside Baqouba, and more information has been uncovered in raids of other insurgent hideouts since then.

“Now we have the upper hand,” he said at a news conference in Baghdad. “We feel that we know their locations, the names of their leaders, their whereabouts, their movements, through the documents we found during the last few days.”

Today’s debate centers on the progress our troops and the Iraqi people are making in Iraq, which has been referred to by al-Qaeda leadership as their war on freedom and democracy.

Regardless of this progress and success, Democrats in Congress continue to follow Rep. John Murtha’s (D-PA) call for America to admit defeat, leave the battlefield to the enemy, and wait for the terrorists to attack us on American soil.