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Did any of the critics of liberating Iraq ever look at a map? Iraq, for which we had the political, legal and moral justifications to attack, is the strategic high ground of the Middle East.

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This is the point at which I want to just give up -- when pundits, etc refuse to acknowledge that Iraq is the key to the entire situation.

Many of the critics are doing U-turns. I notice that this week's cover of the Economist has a picture of an American flag [with a GI superimposed on it] in the form of a U-Turn and the admonition "Don't do it." Their editorial makes it clear that they do not favor an immediate American pullout from Iraq. "The Baker-Hamilton group wants to set a date for leaving Iraq, George Bush should say no."

The Economist editorial quite correctly points out that by setting some arbitrary date for a pullout gives us less leverage, not more in getting the Iraqis to act the way we want. "Do what we say or we go (but we're going anyway."

I notice that the Dems and many other critics of the war are tempering their remarks now that they have achieved their domestic political agenda. An American pullout would cause chaos in the region and have a serious impact on the global economy. It may not be all about oil, but the uninterrupted frow of oil from the region is vital to the global economy.

".......when pundits, etc refuse to acknowledge that Iraq is the key to the entire situation."

Don't give up hope just yet........

Unless the dims want to go on record as the biggest political self-immolation since the Vichy French, they're going to drop the ISD and the screaming moonbats like a bad habit just as soon as they can think up a decent excuse.

Nobody's run any polls on it (they're afraid to, IMHO), but my little circles of friends haven't been this generally PO'd and getting worse every time they hear another DBM talking point since I can recall.

If the only objective of the ISD was to unite and mobilize people on the right, they hit a d*** home run.