A story from The Politico.com-Democrats scramble for Iraq strategy in which it was stated that the Democrats are searching for a new policy now, a new strategy, on Iraq. They don’t quite know what to do. Well, here it is.
Headline: “‘Democrats Scramble for Iraq Strategy.’ Democrats are scrambling to deal with a new dynamic on Capitol Hill — they’re the ones who are trying to come up with a new political strategy on the war.” That alone says a mouthful.
Here we have a war over the US national security, and they’re looking at it as a political issue and trying to come up with a strategy. Bottom line is, they’ve come up with a strategy. Senate Democrat leader, Harry Reid, says that Senate Democrats “reject the call by General Petraeus for a reduction of as many as 30,000 US troops in Iraq by next summer, saying it is not enough.”Withdrawing 30,000 troops does not go far enough. So the new strategy is the old strategy. The new strategy is, “No, you gotta pull ’em all out, much more than that, and do it much sooner.”
That’s their new strategy, which is their old strategy.
The Democrats now have their “new strategy” — and that is their old strategy — of saying, “Get us out! We need to have a timetable! We need to get troops out of there.” So Petraeus comes up with one and they say it’s not good enough. They reject it. They wouldn’t agree with anything.
If Petraeus said, “We want to get out in six months,” they’d find a way to disagree with that. It’s too soon or whatever. But what do they keep saying about President Bush? He has a closed mind. He can’t be changed by new information. He refuses to deal with reality! He will not admit his mistakes. Well, General Petraeus has spoken, not glowingly, but realistically, about Iraq. So has Ambassador Crocker.
Now, let’s see. Who has the closed mind now, the president or the left? Who refuses to be changed by new information? Who rejects it? Who doesn’t even want to hear the new information, the president or the left?
The answer is obvious.
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