Democrats Cave On Iraq Troop Withdrawal
Congressional Democrats have abandoned their goal of tying an Iraq troop withdrawal deadline to a critical war spending bill–just like everyone knew they would.
The DFL has failed again! 
So predictable, yet so funny!
The Democrats were doomed to fail. The fact that they had to load up the first war spending bill they sent to the President with billions in pork-barrel spending to gain support from fellow Democrats was evidence enough. But the reality is that the Democrats are spineless and have no real principles other than the desire to pander to any group that makes enough noise. In this case, it was the rabid anti-war crowd.
Nobody likes war. In a perfect world there would be no war. In a perfect world, Democrat-voting strongholds wouldn’t be shooting galleries and cesspools of crime and violence. But we are not living in a perfect world.
Even if we ignore for the moment the fact that most Democrats believed that Saddam Hussein was a threat and that many prominent Democrats supported the Iraq invasion, the reality is that we are there. And if we leave Iraq because of some silly, arbitrary deadline that the Democrats insist on to appease a vocal, yet irrational base, all hell will break loose.
What do the Democrats think will happen if we pullout at a specified date? Do they think peace will break out? Do they think that Al Qaeda will stop murdering innocent civilians? Do the Democrats believe that the radical Islamists will abandon their goal of enslaving the Iraqi people in a repressive Islamic state?
It is quite possible that Democrats and, in particular, their liberal base believe such nonsense. Liberals may believe that because deep down in their hearts they believe that America is responsible for all that is bad in the world.
Liberalism is not rooted in logic. If liberals were a logical group, they would realize that what is happening in Iraq is symptomatic of what is happening all over the globe. Radical Islam is on the march. In Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and elsewhere, the radical Islamists are using a bastardized version of their religion in conjunction with terrorism as a tool to further their political goals; which, if you haven’t noticed, is to install a worldwide caliphate.
If the United States of America leaves Iraq prematurely, the terrorists will win. They will use terrorism and brutality to enslave the people. Then, Al Qaeda won’t just have a few thousand fighters in their army. They will conscript the Iraqi populace resulting in an army of millions.
Would we rather fight a few thousand terrorists now, or pull out of Iraq as the Democrats want and fight millions of terrorists tomorrow?
This is just another example of what dirty frauds and liars the Democrats are. They knew all along they didn’t have a chance for a ridiculous troop withdrawal deadline. But they played politics to appease their liberal base. The Democrats played games until the end, wasting precious time and resources that they could have been using to do the work of the people. Democrats ignored the many to pander to the few.