RE: How the Democrats Have Lost Their Cool

It's at a point now that the Democrats in Washington have a vested interest in our defeat in Iraq. They do not want this new plan to work. It reminds me of the 1980's when the Democrats had a vested interest in the Soviet Union remaining a viable country because they wanted to see Reagan fail.

Fair enough, Andy. I'll grant you that the Democrats are demagoguing the heck out of this, but history will undoubtedly record that the Iraq Conflict was lost by none other than George W. Bush hisownself. It will be recorded that the whole adventure was ill-advised to begin with and degraded from there. As has been repeatedly pointed out elsewhere, no war has ever been won by half measures. Once the main objective, which was nailing Saddam, was out of the way, the Dimwit-in-Chief simply lost interest. All the shrill screeching by the plethora of Democrats running for King...err...President will be a minor entertainment footnote.

As well, the similarity between the current situation and Reagan's defeat of the Soviets ends with the Democrats' rhetoric. Reagan fought and defeated a very real and present danger through shrewd tactics and brilliant strategies. Bush is fighting a war of agit-prop with ill-defined goals and a vague, abstract enemy. As has also been pointed out elsewhere, wars are fought against nations and peoples, not ideas and situations. Bush's silly war on terrorism is no more concrete or viable than Johnson's war on poverty, it just happens to get more people killed.