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Read ahead and see how John Kerry proves once again that he is a perpetual idiot that ought to be drummed out of Congress

When it rains it pours. Let’s see now. The Democrats had hoped to guarantee that American lives would be lost in vain by undercutting the Iraq war almost simultaneously with their vote in support of it almost 5 years ago. When it was apparent that they were succeeding at sinking the mission they ramped up the anti-war machine machine in an effort to dredge up the ghosts of Vietnam. The strategy worked and helped terrorists and foreign influences plot a strategic insurgency designed to create civil war and bolster the message of American detractors both here and abroad.

The Democrats all but spelled out how the terrorists must fight our brave men and women, even to the point of taking up the mighty megaphone of propaganda in an effort to smear the U.S. military from the halls of Congress to the front of the New York Times. World wide anti-American haters jumped on board with Democrats and their MSM supporters until they had successfully turned sentiment against the efforts in Iraq and on the home front. Suddenly the war on terror was a cause celeb for those whose warped view of America was steeped in leftist anti-authoritarian rhetoric, 9-11 conspiracy theories, flushed Korans, false charges of massacres, fake war stories (some from soldiers spewing lies and others from fake soldiers), photoshopped atrocities and manufactured AP reports that were mired in lies, deceit and shoddy use of facts.

Despite the obviousness of the attempt to undermine the security of the United States the Democrats continued the catcalls of defeat. They rode the wave of manufactured outrage into power promising a change of course. After the November elections had come and gone Democrats did little different than before they held the reins of power. They continued calling for a change of course even though they helped approve of General Petraeus in part because of his success on the ground and his vision that would result in the change of course they were calling for. The Democrats, perhaps realizing their mistake, immediately began calling the new change of course a failure even though the crucial element of that change hadn’t yet been implemented.

But then something happened. People started pushing back. YouTube videos leaked out with a Democrat Senator lashing out at anti-war morons explaining to them that defunding the war was the only way to bring the troops back home. But that effort failed. American’s didn’t want to run back home with their tail between their legs. The left turned on the left and the right despised the left. Suddenly the Democrats came up with religion to help woo conservatives over. But that meant riding the line between support for and support against.

Meanwhile the build up to the surge continued and eventually most of the troops were in. News of success started eeeking in. Whisper campaigns touting the various successes on the ground started making their way across newsrooms and liberal newspapers. Those who dared report success were immediately attacked by the very people that were their fans a few short articles earlier. But al-Qaeda overplayed their hand and was forced to run from both American forces and local Iraqi’s who had been brutalized by their fellow Muslims. Bad news for Democrats.

In an effort to get ahead of the game the new leftist narrative was that the Iraqi government was failing from a political perspective. We were sustaining military progress but political progress was at a standstill. Harry Reid, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the usual suspects crawled out of their caves to undercut any signs of success. A GAO report leaked out ahead of the anticipated Petraeus report; a GAO report that was based on unrealistic goals designed to show the very shortcomings it trumpeted in calls for American’s to see how we have failed.

The Democrats were once again attacking the integrity of Petraeus and sliming the military by saying that violence went down despite the surge. The Petraeus report is now being called the “Bush Report” by Democrats and media alike in an effort to malign the author and call into doubt its objectivity.

Chuck Schumer once again lead the parade of anti-military blather:

The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from Al-Qaeda said to these tribes, “We have to fight Al-Qaeda ourselves.” It wasn’t that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here.

John Kerry, a repetitive basher of the military, took to the Huffington Post to tout the failures as outlined in the leaked GAO report from his position as a chair of the GAO. Hmmm, I wonder who had their hands on leaking this one out? John Kerry, a perpetual idiot, sticks his foot in his mouth again by acting like the expert that he isn’t. In doing so he tries once again to undercut any progress.

Look, I know from experience that there’s no such thing as a military solution to a situation like this, and no amount of “metrics” can create one. Our own generals have always confirmed this about Iraq. And by the way — go read all of the statements at the time about the “reason” for the escalation – it was to buy political breathing room for Iraqis to compromise. Period. It hasn’t happened. So it all boils down to the same thing: these are more “steps” that don’t get you any closer to your real goals, “successes” that don’t lead to any resolution.

Translation of what John Kerry is saying, we can’t win, the benchmarks were never achievable in the first place, the reason for the surge wasn’t because he and others called for a change but because Iraqi’s needed political room for a compromise that didn’t happen. Period.

Which makes the following announcement by the last holdout of opposition against the democratically elected government of Iraq all the more precious and John Kerry look more and more like the ass that he is.

A Sunni Arab-led bloc has ended its boycott of Iraq’s parliament – the last of several Sunni groups to return after walking out three months ago.

The Iraqi National Dialogue Front said the government had agreed to address security fears and delay oil-law talks.

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The leader of the National Dialogue Front, Saleh al-Mutlaq, said all of its 11 members that hold seats in the 275-seat parliament would return to work.

We need a liberal government, we need a secular government. Without such a government the violence will continue

Other conditions of return set by the bloc, which describes itself as a non-sectarian coalition, included allocating funds to help resettle millions of people displaced by violence.

The main Sunni Arab bloc, the Accordance Front, and a faction loyal to Moqtada Sadr also recently ended their boycotts.

“We need a liberal government, we need a secular government. Without such a government the violence will continue,” Mr Mutlaq said on Al-Jazeera television.

He added: “The violence will grow again, as people will lose hope if nothing changes on the political side.”

Parliament will soon review two laws that the US sees as key steps towards political reconciliation and a withdrawal of its forces in Iraq. (src. BBC News)

So once again Democrats are on the short end of the stick, sitting with their white flag and gutless smirks. A pretty good picture in the wake of a wide reaching Democrat fundraising scandal and a speech from Osama bin Laden that reads as if any one of the Dems could have penned it themselves.

Trackposted to The Pink Flamingo, Rosemary’s Thoughts, Conservative Cat, Jo’s Cafe, Big Dog’s Weblog, Adeline and Hazel, and The Yankee Sailor, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

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