Phased pandering to the left

Debra Saunders:

How is America supposed to win the war in Iraq when so many partisans in Washington -- including high-profile Democrats who voted for the October 2002 war resolution -- aren't doing everything in their power to make sure America prevails in Iraq?

Many Washington Dems seem to have devoted the last month instead to answering the question: With friends like these, who needs enemies?

The answer is: Not U.S. troops. The "phased deployment" crowd -- to use Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's euphemism for cut-and-run -- does not seem to understand that when elected officials vote in favor of a war resolution, they assume a solemn responsibility to the troops who carry out their mandate. To wit, Congress is not supposed to follow a war vote with actions that undermine the war effort.

Yet that is exactly what Feinstein, who voted for the war resolution, is poised to do today as she introduces an amendment calling on President Bush to set up a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops starting this year. Feinstein's cosponsors are fellow Democratic Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan, Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Ken Salazar of Colorado -- although it should be noted that Levin and Reed voted against the Iraq war resolution, while Salazar was not in the Senate in 2002.

Feinstein explained in a press release that, after three years in Iraq, "an open-ended commitment is no longer sustainable." Sunday, she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, "Three years and three months into a mission that was supposed to take 30 or 40 days. That isn't cutting and running."

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No longer sustainable? What total and complete utter nonsense. Of course it is sustainable. It is not like we are running out of troops or logistic support. What the Democrats are running out of is will. They lack the will to stick to a war when the going is not even that tough. We have lost fewer troops in the three years of this war than most of them thought we would lose in taking Baghdad alone. Democrats just cannot not be trusted to win this war. The enemy knows he is losing and cannot recruit new fighters. The Democrats act as depressed as Zarqawi was in his famous thumb drive document.

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