The Democrat surrender monkeys who see benefit in losing

Investor's Business Daily:

When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid raised the white flag and proclaimed the war in Iraq to be lost, we were appalled that a major U.S. political leader would so render aid and comfort to the enemy by calling the young Americans whom they allegedly support a bunch of losers who were risking their lives for nothing.

Now the surrender monkeys of the Democratic Party are starting to fess up and admit that they simply don't think it's in their selfish political interest for the U.S. to emerge a winner in Iraq.

If you have good news, they don't want to hear it. Reid, Pelosi, Murtha et al. want to hear no progress, see no progress, speak no progress.

A spokesman for Pelosi admitted as much by saying Democratic leaders are "not willing to concede there are positive things to point to" in Iraq.

They are like gamblers who don't want their team to score if it ruins the point spread. The Democrats don't want us to win if it ruins their chances in 2008.

Not willing to concede that there is good news from Iraq, Rep. Nancy Boyda, a Kansas Democrat, got up and walked out at a recent hearing of the Armed Service Committee when retired Gen. Jack Keane said that "progress is being made" by the good guys, American and Iraqi.

Using the imperial pronoun, Ms. Boyda said that "there was only so much (good news) that you could take until we, in fact, had to leave the room for a while . . . after so much of the frustration of having to listen to what we listened to."

You know, things like this from Gen. Keane: "We are on the offensive and we have the momentum."

We have come to know how frustrating it can be for a Democrat to hear that we just might be winning in Iraq.

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The desperation felt by Democrats that we might be winning in Iraq was expressed by the No. 3 Democrat in the House, Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C. Clyburn recently observed that a positive September report from surge architect Gen. David Petraeus could lead to as many as 47 "Blue Dog" Democrats to oppose a withdrawal timetable. Clyburn said that such good news would be "a real big problem for us."

Earth to Clyburn — losing in Iraq would be a big problem for America and the civilized world.

Having jumped off the victory bandwagon and started rooting for defeat the Democrats should find themselves where they belong--defeated. It is not just desperation that we might be winning that is driving the current problems of the Democrats. It has been their headlong desperation for defeat from early on in the war that will mark them for generations.