“Is it necessary that we wait sixty more days until this magic day in September to change course?  How many more American soldiers are gonna be killed?  How many are gonna be maimed, wounded, lose their arms?”  Senator Harry Reid (D) Nevada

            The answer, of course, is that many more will be killed, maimed and wounded than if the Senator decided to work to win the war, rather than encourage the enemy to continue to fight with assurances that they are winning.  The real question is why, after Reid created this imaginary deadline based on the September report, this deadline is suddenly way too far off for the Democrats.  After all, using this report as the “last chance” is an ingenious plan to allow a huge media push for a shift in opinion.  Why so nervous?

            All that could possibly go wrong for the Democrat plan is success for the U.S. military in Iraq.  At first security was the problem.  Now the surge begins to work and the Iraqi government is the problem.  Suddenly the Dems are pointing wildly and their voices are getting very high-pitched.  Suddenly waiting for the September report is not good enough.  No Democrat will address what would happen after a premature withdraw.  John Kerry thought it wouldn’t be so bad, right before making a comparison to the Vietnamese reeducation camps.  Old John seems to think that the fall of South Vietnam was a Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Years Eve, complete with parades and carnival rides.  And the kindly and gentle Vietcong helped their friends in the south with camps where they fished, played games and performed skits designed to "educate" about the new Worker’s Paradise. 

            The fact is that American Socialists still haven’t faced the results of their last great political success, Vietnam.  These people have run around college campuses and newsrooms for thirty years quashing any reference to the fate of those who trusted America in Vietnam.  Democrats are so firmly planted in denial and rationalization that they simply cannot and will not even utter a “my bad” to the millions tortured and killed after we abandoned our allies.  They even made a propaganda movie called The Killing Fields, making the fantastic claim that somehow the United States created the Khmer Rouge by bombing in Cambodia.  Another great circular logic puzzle from the “fighting terrorists just makes them mad” crowd is just what college professors and journalists love.

Ironically, one of the protest mantras is that America is hated in the world because we are in Iraq.  What will the millions of Iraqis who are allied with us think if we suddenly leave them to their fate?  The answer is not much, because many of them will be tortured, shot in the head and dumped in large holes throughout the country.  The rest will take the hint and jump on the “Death to America” bandwagon while their families are still breathing.  Hey, this is just like Vietnam!

But for Democrats the key is all in the timing.  If people are convinced that progress is being made in security, the whining about political progress will not hold water.  After all, a lecture from this congress about legislative progress is patently absurd. 

The more that the Democrats speak the more likely they will look ridiculous.  In a recent primary debate Dennis Kucinich said that if oil were in Sudan that the U.S. would already be there.  It sounded great and Democrats cheered and patted each other on the back.  The problem is that there is oil in Sudan and that is why the genocide is occurring.  The Islamic Fascist government is using militias to push people off their land in order to access that oil.  The big guy behind all of this is China, investing heavily in Sudan’s oil industry.  The beauty of this colossal ignorance is that the Democrats find themselves in a position of allowing genocide in one country because they wish to stop genocide in another.  And both wars are about OIL.  Unfortunately, they won’t “find themselves” in that position because they have no idea what they are talking about.

The biggest problem is that media is not what it used to be.  The press cannot fully suppress the video and pictures of the results of an Iraqi pullout.  Democrats will be forced to answer for their actions throughout the war when the pictures of the savage repercussions emerge from the Middle East.  The celebrations of Islamic-Fascists and their terrified and newly compliant subjects will ring throughout the world, and many will know not to ally with the United States and risk abandonment.  Blaming Bush most likely will not be an effective strategy with the American People in justifying this bloodbath.  And you can forget about help with Darfur (like anybody is helping now).

 On March 9^th 2007, I made a historical comparison between today’s Democrat party and the death of the Federalist Party in the early 1800’s.  The Democrats must pull off surrender in Iraq before news of military and political gains seeps through the media filter.  If they can do this and gain the power they so deserve, I wonder if Senator Reid will ask how many more soldiers will die as the conflict shockingly continues on throughout the world and in Iraq.  I wonder if Senator Reid believes he can “jingle the keys” and convince America that running away was a great idea for world peace, and not just a great idea for Democrat political power.