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« Driving the Discussion | Main | Stop The War! » January 28, 2007Iraq MythsStrategyPage.com presents the Top Ten Myths of the Iraq War. Good stuff. Meanwhile, TigerHawk notes that there are two groups opposed to the "surge" - the president's deployment of more troops to Iraq to implement a new military strategy against the terrorist insurgents. Who, mainly, is against it? The enemy. And Democrats. The enemy, you can understand why they don't want more armed Americans chasing after them. But why do Democrats oppose sending reinforcements to our troops in Iraq? (That's what the "surge" is, after all - sending reinforcements. Maybe we should call "sending reinforcements" instead of a "surge," and then ask wobbly senators and congressman why they oppose sending reinforcements to our troops in battle...) The conviction with which Democratic Senators aver that the "surge" will only make matters worse is startling. They do not explain how it will make matters worse, only that it is inevitable that it will. ... New York Senator Chuck Schumer seemed to give away the game - at least implicitly - on "Meet the Press." He quite obviously does not want the next election cycle to be "about" Iraq. One gets the sense that this sentiment is even more pronounced among the Democrats who will be vying for their party's presidential nomination. It is easy to see why: the problem of Iraq will be nothing but trouble for leading Democrats. The party activists who hold sway during the primary season will demand that candidates embrace the so-called "anti-war" agenda without reservation, but if Democrats do that too enthusiastically they will remind voters that their party has been all about defeat since 1972. Since none of them want to be caught in that Liebermanesque trap, leading Democrats are desperate for Iraq to be off the table by next fall.Meanwhile, the number of people who have signed the pledge to refuse support for any Republican senator supporting any resolution critical of sending reinforcements to our troops in the War on Terror's primary combat zone has topped 28,000 and continues to climb. Stay tuned to HughHewitt.com for the latest on that... Posted in War on Terror
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I looked at your "top ten myths" ... another great example of misinformation at best, but most likely denial. Who has emboldened the enemy? Joe Biden tells us: "It's not Americans and the United States Congress who are emboldening the enemy, it's the failed policy of this president, going to war without a strategy, going to war prematurely, going to war without enough troops, going to war without enough equipment and, lastly, now sending 17,500 people in the middle of a city of six and a half million people with bulls-eyes on their back, with no plan. There is no plan." Posted by: Elliemay at January 30, 2007 12:55 AMPost a comment
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