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December 6, 2005

Dean Says US Won't Win In Iraq

Seemingly intent on destroying the Democrats from inside, Howard Dean is off running his mouth again. This time, he says that the US will not win in Iraq.

"I've seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam. Everybody then kept saying, 'just another year, just stay the course, we'll have a victory.' Well, we didn't have a victory, and this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops because we were too stubborn to recognize what was happening."

Of course, this ignores some simple facts about Vietnam, as well. We WERE winning in Vietnam. Once we reached a point where US forces could be pulled out, because the South Vietnamese forces were capable of winning with only our financial help, we came home. Soon after, the Democrats in Congress removed the support for South Vietnam, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. They had so much political capital invested in the idea that we were losing that they had to take moves to ensure we lost.

That's where we are in Iraq. The left has so much political capital invested in the idea that Iraq is a failure that they cannot acknowledge the successes, and must ensure that the US does not succeed. They were wrong about our chances for success in Afghanistan. They were wrong about the number of bodybags needed there. They were wrong about the successful creations of a constitution and government. They were wrong about the timeline in the Iraq invasion. They were wrong about the death toll in the Iraq invasion. They were wrong about the timeline for the creation of a constitution in Iraq. They were wrong about the creation of a government in Iraq. They were wrong about whether the Iraqis could carry out a vote. They were wrong about the rebuilding of schools, hospitals, police stations, and communities. They were wrong about the rebuilding of the Iraqi Army. They're constantly wrong about the support in Iraq for the actions the US has taken.

If they have gone all this time, and spent all this political capital on the idea that we're losing a war we've already won, and then we go and succeed in the rebuilding process as well, somebody might just notice. That's why it is vitally important that the left, and the Democrats in particular, succeed in defeating the United States in time of war. They've invested their own success in their country's defeat. Sadly, the goals of the Democrats and the United States are at odds like never before in the history of our country.

Michael Reagan calls Dean's words treasonous. I agree, but if the government under George Bush won't prosecute treason in the cases of people who actually went to Iraq to serve as human shields at strategic targets, then I have no faith it will prosecute Dean. I don't even think Dean's speech SHOULD be prosecuted, mind you, but the chances are nil.

Dean is counting on Bush being weak in his response to this statement. That's because Bush has a history of weak responses. That doesn't make Dean right in any sense. He's not right factually, morally, ethically, or at all.

He's also counting on his supporters being too ignorant to know he's lying. On that, he's been proven correct many times.

Posted by Lockjaw at December 6, 2005 5:29 AM

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