Jed Babbin has written a must read article at The American Spectator.
The whole Democrat menagerie has embarked on a campaign to Vietnamize Iraq: to make it a demonstrable defeat and by so doing regain the White House regardless of the consequences. If they succeed, Iraq will become a far greater failure than Vietnam was because the stakes are much higher abroad and at home. The next presidential election will, like the last one, be a referendum on Iraq. And if Iraq is a failure, the Democrats will be a success.
"Vietnamization" once meant arming, training and supporting an ally so that it could defend itself and thus relieve Americans of the burden. But to the Democrats and the Chernobyl Republicans who are trying to Vietnamize Iraq, Vietnam is not a nation but an outcome. To succeed in Vietnamizing Iraq, they must treat the nation’s uncertainty like uranium ore, refining it in stages into politically fissionable material. First, they must catalyze the nation’s uncertainty into doubt, and then refine public doubts about the war into conviction that America should not fight it, and that the Iraqis must be left to their own devices. Sen. Joe Biden — who rarely has an unexpressed thought — has shed a dim light on the Democrats’ strategy.
On Meet the Press yesterday, Biden said that the 79-19 Senate vote two weeks ago for John Warner’s three-part antiwar resolution was a "vote of no confidence" in Bush’s prosecution of the war. In response to Tim Russert’s questions, Biden’s Republican pal Warner didn’t even manage a decent harrumph. The Senate resolution — even with so many Republicans supporting it — wasn’t a vote of no confidence. But it was a message to America that a strong Senate majority was unhappy with Mr. Bush’s conduct of the war. It was a long step toward achieving Vietnamization of Iraq by destroying public support for the war….
If we abandon Iraq America will become a larger breeding ground for Al-Qaeda. The Democrat party is playing politics for the 2006 & 2008 elections at America’s expense. Security will be nil if the looney left regains power.
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