Here's MoveOn's plan: After consulting with MoveOn members, we're about to launch an aggressive new campaign to bring our troops home as soon as possible.
More Americans than ever oppose the war. Yet all the major contenders for the Republican nomination support it, and Congress is unable or unwilling (or both) to take President Bush to task.
So, we're moving forward with a three-pronged strategy.
First, our spring and summer campaign focused on giving Republicans who supported the war a choice between ending it and feeling the wrath of their constituents. They've now cast their lot with President Bush, and it's our job to make sure that they get booted by voters next November. And we need to make clear that it's bigger than that: their willingness to give the president the votes he needs to continue the war puts their party into a political death spiral that will doom it for a generation. A growing number of congressional Republicans have already gotten the message and have chosen to retire.
Second, we will have to build an anti-Iraq war Democratic caucus on the Hill that finally stands up to Bush by blocking his funding requests unless they include a binding and timely plan to exit Iraq. We will even launch primary challenges to some Congressional Democrats who continue to be out of step with their constituents on this issue. We consider it our job to help produce more than a merely Democratic majority. We want an anti-war majority in 2008.
Third, we will have to make sure that the next president leads us out of Iraq as expeditiously as possible. Republican presidential aspirants have been unwilling to break with the President on Iraq, and some continue to be his most ardent cheerleaders. We will work to ensure that none of them has any chance to win election without reversing his stance. Democratic presidential hopefuls have pledged to end the war if elected but they must be unequivocal in their commitments to remove all U.S. troops within eighteen months of taking office.
Well that sounds like a legitimate, bullet-proof plan! There's only a couple of problems that they face.
First off, Democrats in Congress don't have even one vertebrae, let alone a whole spine, to be able to accomplish anything they said they would. Don't believe me? Just look at the progress that's been made so far....a higher minimum wage. That's it. Remember the promises made during the 2006 election?
"Getting rid of the culture of corruption" - Nancy Pelosi names William Jefferson, a suspected corrupted politician, to a committee that has access to classified information.
"5 day work week for Congress" - Just take a look at their schedule. They've only had a handful of 5 day work weeks.
"Bringing the troops home from Iraq" - We have all seen how well that worked out.
"Standing up to Bush" - Oh please, they've stood up as much as a loser in a Mike Tyson fight.
Plus, let's face it, with the massive gains we've seen in Iraq, it's difficult to claim that Iraq is a "quagmire" like they have been before.
Why just a few days ago, I wrote on how now the Iraqi's control 10 of the 18 provinces in that country and we're winding down our operations there. There's also talk of Iraq controlling ALL provinces by the end of the year.
Face facts, Democrats have said this war is "lost", called it a "quagmire", and have called our Marines "cold blooded murderers". They have ZERO credibility in the area of Iraq. MoveOn is even worse. When they didn't get what they wanted to hear from General Petraeus' report, they took out an ad that cost over $100,000 to defame him and call him "General Betray Us".
Had they gotten what they wanted to hear, they certainly wouldn't have called him names, and most likely would have used him as a basis for new arguments against the war.
We're winding down the war in Iraq. The Iraqi's are starting to get back on their feet and Democrats and the anti-war folks don't like it. They want to give the illusion that they are accomplishing something, but they aren't.
Once our men and women come home, I wouldn't put it past them to claim some sort of "victory" that they "made a difference" or other some such nonsense.
The troops were sent to Iraq last year in a bid to quell sectarian violence in a war now in its sixth year. With U.S. troop levels up to about 155,000 now, violence levels have since dropped sharply.
"All the evidence available to me now suggests we will be able to complete the drawdown," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters separately.
That part is irrefutable. It's extremely difficult to say that things are a "quagmire" when violence has dropped so sharply after we changed tactics and the Iraqi's saw who the real enemy is.
But Gates said the U.S. mission in Iraq has begun its planned transition to a more supportive role that would focus on border security and combating al Qaeda in Iraq. "That's ultimately where we are headed, and we have begun that process of transition," he said.
Things are already winding down, and the anti-war folks simply have run out of steam and are left disillusioned and without a cause and without evidence to back up their line of thinking.
Travis
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