Hell Is Freezing Right Now

Normally, I don't like Joe Liberman because of his past stances on kids and video games, but he nails it with this article.

Last week a series of coordinated suicide bombings killed more than 170 people. The victims were not soldiers or government officials but civilians -- innocent men, women and children indiscriminately murdered on their way home from work and school.

If such an atrocity had been perpetrated in the United States, Europe or Israel, our response would surely have been anger at the fanatics responsible and resolve not to surrender to their barbarism.

Unfortunately, because this slaughter took place in Baghdad, the carnage was seized upon as the latest talking point by advocates of withdrawal here in Washington. Rather than condemning the attacks and the terrorists who committed them, critics trumpeted them as proof that Gen. David Petraeus's security strategy has failed and that the war is "lost."

He's absolutely correct. If 170 people were killed here, everyone, Democrats included, would be calling for the perpetrators blood. Anyone involved would be hunted down and you'd see old enemies shake hands and forget their differences until these people were captured or killed.

The Democrats recently passed a budget for our troops that included a deadline when we will withdraw. Democrats would be demonized if they pulled that stuff if the attack happened here.

What do you think would happen if Harry Reid said "the bombers are at war with the victims, we shouldn't get involved and should get out of there as soon as possible" He'd be ran out of town and labeled the traitor that he is, so how is it different because it happened in Baghdad?

Easy, it isn't.

Travis
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