Dems' irrational fear doesn't allow them to see clearly - (libs desperate for American Iraq defeat!)

The nationalists want to make a deal with the Americans, while al Qaeda wants to fight on, the UN official told Tavernise.

When the bad guys are shooting each other, it's hard to say the insurgency is worsening, but Democrats are escalating their rhetoric:

Iraq is "a seemingly intractable quagmire," said Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) at a contentious hearing Thursday.

Disaster in Iraq "is a real possibility," said Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del) after announcing his intention to run for president.

"There is rising concern that everything seems to be going the wrong way," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-Cal).

"To represent the situation in Iraq as a quagmire is a misrepresentation of the facts," the commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, told Kennedy.

"With the exception of periodic flare-ups in isolated corners, our struggle in Iraq as warfare is over," Zinsmeister said. "Egregious acts of terror will continue...But there is now no chance whatever of the U.S. losing this critical guerilla war."

Zinsmeister's declaration of victory is premature. But I suspect the increasingly over the top rhetoric by Democrats is motivated by fear there are only a few months more in which a precipitous American withdrawal from Iraq could lead to a Vietnam-like defeat.

Six months from now, after an Iraqi constitution has been adopted and a permanent government elected under it, and after more Iraqi army and police units have been fielded, it may be too late to prevent an American/Iraqi victory. A year from now, it almost certainly will be.

It is hard to say which is sadder, that Democrats are lost in a Vietnam time warp, or that they regard our abandonment of an ally in 1975 as a precedent to be emulated

There is a reason they are concerned about our winning over there:

See this:

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Unholy Alliance
by David Horowitz
Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 089526076X
Hardcover - 256 pages (September 2004)

In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz, confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the “Great Satan” with America’s radical Islamic enemies. This Left, which once made common cause with Communists, has now joined forces with radical Islam in attacking America’s defenses at home and its policies abroad. From their positions of influence in the university and media culture, leftists have defined America as the “root cause” of the attacks against it. In a remarkable exploration of the “Mind of the Left,” Horowitz traces the evolution of American radicalism from its Communist past to its “anti-war” present. He then shows how this Left was able to turn the Democratic Party presidential campaign around and reshape its views on the War on Terror.

Horowitz’s Unholy Alliance, writes John Haynes, the noted historian of American Communism, “is an insightful, brilliant examination of the mental world of the radical left. Horowitz shows how today’s radicals, unwilling to reflect on the internal flaws that destroyed Marxism-Leninism from within, have embraced an all-consuming nihilism in its place. This has led them to a hatred of American institutions and a solidarity with Islamic terrorists that makes the radical left more properly regarded as dangerous than loony.”

Unholy Alliance is an eye-opening book that should unsettle conventional assumptions and reveals why intellectuals and political leaders who applaud Michael Moore are no laughing matter. As Harvey Klehr, author of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, writes, “The world Communist movement may be moribund, but its habits of mind and ideological fantasies have not disappeared. This is a fascinating and depressing account.”

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It is hard to say which is sadder, that Democrats are lost in a Vietnam time warp, or that they regard our abandonment of an ally in 1975 as a precedent to be emulated

The latter.

The first they can conceivably be rescued from. The second is an acceptance of a moral deficiency. An inability to distinguish between good and evil. A Conscious decision to turn against this country because in their warped decision process it is for the 'greater good'.

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