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October 31, 2006

Democrats Counter Bush Attack With Anti-Iraq Ads

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... they (the Democrats) had "come up with a lot of creative ways to describe leaving Iraq before the job is done. ... However they put it, the Democrat approach to Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses." (President Bush)
The AP is reporting that the Dems continue to attack Republicans on Iraq, and continue to point to President Bush as the enemy. They somehow have forgotten that neither he nor Republicans are the enemy - it's the Islamofascists, the Islamic terrorists that are murdering people throughout Iraq and elsewhere throughout the world that are the enemy. The Dems keep saying they want to change policy, but they still have not uttered one damned word about what they want to change it to. They act like they haven't a clue about war, that the enemy keeps changing his tactics as we must do, and have done. Anyone that's ever been in a firefight knows that the moment the first shot is fired, the first mortar round lands, or the first grenade goes off, all hell breaks loose and you need to react to the conditions at hand, then fall back on your training and methodically "work" the fight. War is a hell of a big firefight, lots of them, mistakes are made, assessments and changes are necessary, but showing your ass to the enemy and hauling tail out of Dodge is not how you win a firefight or a war.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Campaigning for Republicans, President Bush said Monday that "terrorists win and America loses" if opponents of his Iraq policy triumph in next week's elections. Undeterred, House Democrats countered with television ads critical of the war in several competitive races.

"There's a big national debate in this country about the direction of this war set by President Bush, Defense Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney, and Democrats think we need to change that policy," said Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who heads the Democratic campaign committee.

As the death toll for U.S. troops in Iraq passed 100 for the month, officials said ads criticizing Republican candidates for following the president's lead on the war would air in the campaign's final week in Connecticut, New Mexico, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Iowa and other areas they declined to name.

Public opinion polls show widespread public dissatisfaction with the war, helping give Democrats their best chance in more than a decade at winning control of at least one house of Congress.

So just what is it that the Dems want to do about Iraq other than simply cut and run? What policies have they put forth as an alternate solution to the current policy of continuing to adjust to the changing conditions on the ground, while working on a multitude of areas to help the Iraqi people stand up for themselves and form a stable government? What do the Dems want to change our policy in Iraq to? We've heard cut and run, or re-deployment; is that their answer to winning the war in Iraq and the War on Terror?

Cutting and running, or "re-deploying" as the Dems would have it, is showing our tails to the enemy - and it most surely will come back to haunt us in our own streets; for surely, the enemy will follow our troops home to our own shores should we allow defeat in Iraq. The Dems need to wake up and realize that they need to join with the President in defeating our enemies rather than continuing to provide propaganda support for the terrorists. By undermining the national will to fight, the Democratic party has in fact made the battle more difficult for America, and has served as a propaganda arm for al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Islamists throughout the world that are determined to kill us.

Perhaps, in hindsight, we should have done some things differently, and indeed should have. But the Democrats apparently have not only failed to grasp the realities of war, but also the consequences to us at home should we fail in Iraq. Again, President George Bush is not the enemy, the insurgents and terrorists in Iraq are - as is the medieval tribal system of Middle Eastern culture. Yet the Dems just can't get over putting their political agenda before national security.

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Posted by Richard at October 31, 2006 7:02 AM


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