Reply #72: Silliness like this?

[gulfcoastliberal]

Iraq and the Vital Center

Yesterday, President Bush unveiled a "plan for victory" to shore up sagging public confidence in his Iraq policies. Though it broke little new ground, the president's speech at the U.S. Naval Academy did provoke an unfortunate reaction from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who endorsed Rep. John Murtha's earlier call for a swift withdrawal of U.S. troops.

We share the widespread frustration with the Bush administration's utterly inept handling of Iraq's post-conflict rebuilding. But too much is at stake in Iraq for America to simply give up and come home. What Democrats really should demand from President Bush is victory, not a hasty departure.

http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=131&subid=192&contentid=253638

So they admit Bushco cannot handle Iraq, but then say we should demand "victory" from an "inept" president and his incompetent cronies. I'd say Iraq is already out of control and a huge disaster. As per your quote:

"The Sunni triangle will likely become home base for the global jihad network, a safe haven for hatching new terrorist plots against our country and our friends. America will once again have broken faith with Iraq's long-suffering Kurds and Shi'a, and the cause of Arab democracy will be set back for a generation."

Here the DLC is repeating RW talking points about why we have to keep our forces in the country aka the Bush line "stay the course". I'd say we already broke whatever "faith" the Iraqis had in us by slaughtering so many innocent women, children, and civilians. Atrocities likethe white phosphorus "shake and bake" operations in Fallujah hardly endeared them to us, either. They want us out of their country but apparently the DLC thinks they can't "defend" themselves. We need to leave - the entire "Sunni triangle terrorist" argument doesn't carry water. Sorry, Murtha is right and the DLC is wrong.