The Anti-War Surge

Brendan Miniter offers pertinent thoughts in his Opinion Journal column on the subject of the current anti-war surge. 

Arguably, waffling on the war is what is costly for Republicans. In June Rep. Gil Gutknecht, a Minnesota Republican, cautioned other Republicans not to go wobbly. A month later he went wobbly himself. After returning from Iraq, he declared that the U.S. lacked "strategic control" of the country and called for a limited troop withdrawal to "send a message" to Iraq's government. In November the six-term congressman watched independent voters abandon him as he lost by more than 5% to Democrat Tim Waltz. Meanwhile, in a neighboring congressional district, Rep. John Kline, another Republican facing a stiff challenge for his seat, didn't waver. He ended winning enough support from independents to defeat FBI "whistleblower" Colleen Rowley by 16%.

Over in the Senate, Joe Lieberman recently warned that a showdown on the war between the executive and legislative branches risked creating a "constitutional crisis." But perhaps his most powerful political statement is still being in the Senate after losing a Democratic primary last year to antiwar activist Ned Lamont. The antiwar left is powerful enough to prevail in a Democratic primary, but even in deeply blue Connecticut, it wasn't capable of winning a statewide general election."

I continue to believe we're going to win in Iraq, and I believe it will a devastating blow to the Democrats when we do.  What's more, I believe the Democratic leadership knows it as well.  They and the media have been working non-stop to create the illusion that the war was unwinnable from its outset, and that the only realistic course of action is to withdraw. 

But to withdraw is only to give in to blackmail.  The hope is that the terrorists will stop blowing up innocent civilians in return for an American withdrawal.  It's a futile hope, and one that ignores the reality that the terrorists hit soft targets because that's all they can hit.  They can't hope to defeat the combined Iraqi and American forces head on.  A commenter put it very well when he said, "So essentially the terrorists are not really fighting a battle they are lobbying Congress."

Bingo!  A majority of Americans can see that, even if the majority in congress can't.

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[Mullah Cimoc]

Mullah Cimoc say

this funny joke for ameriki: why all government in middle east forbid the intermarriage between of the turk and the kurd.
ANSWER: BELOW

BECAUSE THEM OFFSPRING BE KNOWN AS THE “TURDS”.