IBD Looks Back at The Debate

Investors Business Daily looks back at last week's debate on the Iraq resolution and has some very interesting points in their editorial. The highlights:

..... We find it scary that the Democratic and terrorist game plans are indistinguishable.

..... It's not that the Democrats think we're losing or that the war is unwinnable. They simply don't want to win it.

..... Neville Chamberlain's naivete may have helped bring on World War II, but at least he supported his country when war began. Norway's Vidkun Quisling and France's Vichy government under Marshal Petain may have collaborated with the Nazi enemy, but after their countries' defeats, not before.

We'd have to go back to Benedict Arnold to find Americans as eager as Murtha & Co. to see an American defeat on the battlefield.

And now some specific excerpts:

Sen. Hillary Clinton, who was for the war before she was against it, has denied she supports cutting off any money for U.S. forces. But she has admitted she would cut off funds to our Iraqi allies to "get their attention." Such a move would likely lead to a collapse of the fledgling Iraqi democracy and a withdrawal of U.S. forces amid chaos similar to what happened when the 1974 Watergate babies cut off aid to our allies in South Vietnam.

This just goes to prove that Hillary does not have a firm grasp of foreign affaris or national security issues. Can you imagine what would have happened had Hillary been in the White House on 9/11? Would she have "cut off the funding for our allies" in order to "wake them up"? Sounds like it to me... Last word on Hillary:

Give us the tools and we'll finish the job, said Winston Churchill in the dark days before our official entry into World War II. America delayed its entry into both world wars, but once in, we were committed to win. Hillary thinks that applies only to her campaign, not to the war on terror.

She's in it to win it, alright, so long as we're not talking about the global war on terror...

Hillary is not alone...the entire Democrat leadership is conflicted:

It's not that the Democrats think we're losing or that the war is unwinnable. They simply don't want to win it. As House Minority Leader John Boehner said of Murtha's proposals: "While American troops are fighting radical Islamic terrorists thousands of miles away, it is unthinkable that the United States Congress would move to discredit their mission, cut off their reinforcements and deny them the resources they need to succeed and return home safely."

At his press conference last week, Bush warned Congress against tying his hands on the war: "I make it very clear to the members of Congress, starting now, that they need to fund our troops and make sure we have the flexibility necessary to get the job done."

Once again, look at who is calling for victory and who is standing in the way... I can't be any clearer than this bit:

They are working on the game plan of al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri. In October 2005, Zawahiri outlined al-Qaida's plan in a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, late head of al-Qaida in Iraq:

"The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq. The second stage: Establish an Islamic authority . . . over as much territory as you can spread its power in Iraq . . . in order to fill the void stemming from the departure of the Americans."

John Murtha and his perfidious friends are working on creating that void and completing Zawahiri's first stage. They are the appeasers Churchill warned about who hope that by feeding the Islamofascist tiger, it will eat us last.

What I found most interesting were the poll numbers contained in the editorial's sidebar. The two polls clearly show that the american people are not interested in appeasing our enemies or surrendering the war. In fact, a plurality of Americans are quite hopeful for our success in Iraq but you wouldn't know it based on the rhetoric from Democrats in Congress or their accomplices in the 527 media.

(HT: BizzyBlog via email)

UPDATE: BizzyBlog has the Washington Post using the T-Word in the direction of politicians like Murtha... I don't think it is treason, but I do think its "politics as usual" and that isn't what this country needs right now, nor what they voted for in the last cycle.