WSJ: 'It's His War' - On Iraq, echoes of Vietnam from the Democrats.

...Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy was the first to say more than a year ago that "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam." Seven months back, some 121 million votes were cast in a national election fought on those terms between George Bush and John Kerry. But now U.S. opinion-poll sentiment, the product of 1,200 phone calls, has finally broken beneath the front-page weight of al-Zarqawi's daily murders of 0.0001% of Iraq's population. Zarqawi has calculated, perhaps correctly, that a hundred tiny Tet offensives can equal one. The effect is the same: The opposition finds a political voice inside the U.S. and begins the process of offloading an "unpopular" war onto the President. Thus, "It's his war."

On Sunday Democratic Senator Joseph Biden said on "Face the Nation" that he will seek the presidential nomination. This was followed the next day with a speech at the Brookings Institution on Iraq whose third sentence announced "a credibility gap." Recently returned from his fifth trip to Iraq, Sen. Biden said, "That does not make me an expert," but proceeded in a speech that covers 11 single-spaced pages to say that anything good you've heard about the place from George Bush is wrong. Sen. Biden of course quoted the opinion polls for support.

"The reconstruction program in Iraq has thus far been a disaster," said Mr. Biden. Also, "the Iraqi government has very little capacity and very limited reach beyond the green zone," that is, central Baghdad....

I think the Bush administration does need help in Iraq. But the notion at this point in time that Mr. Biden or the Senate Democrats wish to make a good-faith effort to provide it strains, in a word, credibility.

The terrorists believe that if they can hold out until the Democrats regain power they will win. And they are right!

But the Democrats will not regain power not in at least three more election cycles, and if and when they do it will not a be the same left wing Democrat party that we know now, because the left cannot win another national election ever again. This terrorist insurgency will be almost dead if not completely dead by the end of this year, long before the Democrat will have any hope of being back in power.

You're right on the money. The DemoRats are aiding and abetting the enemy; they are the enemy within. They want President Bush (and therefore the USA) to fail in Iraq and in the war on terrorism, hoping that would lead to more Demo Rats being elected to office. The Vietnam mess was primarily Lyndon Johnson's responsibility, since he lacked courage and sacrificed 58,000 American lives while bowing to protestors. In contrast, President Bush has liberated 50 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we have not been attacked here at home since 9/11/01. The Demo Rats are treacherous and must be run out of office.

The left in this country have made it clear that this is "Bush's War" from their reluctant support at the very beginning, and once the dust had settled at Ground Zero we began to see very clearly just who we were going to have to fight, along with those terrorists who had declared war on us, in order to win this war. The president told us countless times, in magnificent, soul stirring speeches that united and strengthened us, that this war would be a long one, and that with God's help the forces of freedom will win it. I believe it is being made even longer by the efforts of the left within our gov't and MSNM who bang an incessant drumbeat of negativity against our efforts. The left has named it Bush's war in an attempt to divide us, and make it appear that the president's interests are separate from the interests of America. They will fail because the left no longer holds a monopoly on communication outlets, and because of people like many of us who watched what they did during the Vietnam era, and vowed that "never again" would we be that "silent majority" who stood incompetently by and let them get away with bringing about our defeat. Our loved ones are fighting and dying on the front lines of the battlefields. We too have battles to fight for hearts and minds to bring victory in this war against terrorism. One can't be won without the other. The left knows that, and they will redouble their propaganda efforts exponentially as needed to deceive the ignorant, destroy our morale, our will, and embolden our enemies in the process. The communist leaders of North Vietnam didn't give credit for their victory to the American left without reason - they couldn't have done it without them.

GWB didn't choose this war, but, thank God he recognized it for what it is, and had the courage to fight it when the terrorists brought it to our shores. The left can call it Bush's War if they want. I don't agree with the president on every issue, but I believe he is a man of integrity, and I know that fighting the enemies of freedom is the right thing to do for America, and for the world, even if there are mistakes and setbacks along the way. May we be faithful to seek the face of God and beg His providencial care to overcome our mistakes, guide us through the setbacks, and bless us to do His holy will.

a speech at the Brookings Institution on Iraq whose third sentence announced "a credibility gap."

Which is, of course, a Vietnam era buzzword meaning, "the President lied." Except Biden took it even farther, saying it's really a credibility "chasm," thereby claiming that Bush is a bigger liar than LBJ or Nixon. Much, much bigger, in fact, to the degree that a "chasm" is bigger than a "gap".

IOW it's a remark of Tubby Kennedy scale biliousness and mendacity, except possible even less honorable because of it's cowardly indirection, and the accompanying long-winded, phony pretense of offering the President helpful advice.

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