Cherrypicking the ISG Report
Freshman Senator Amy Klobuchar, (D-MN), gave the Democrats’ weekly radio address this week. In doing so, Ms. Klobuchar highlighted the parts of the ISG report that she liked while ignoring the parts she didn’t like. Here’s what I’m referring to:
“This means sending a clear message to the Iraqi government that we are not staying there indefinitely,” she said. “This means, as recommended by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, that we begin the process of redeploying our troops with the goal of withdrawing combat forces by next year.”
I don’t deny the fact that the ISG report does say that we should begin redeploying troops. Instead, I’m saying that that isn’t all it said:
If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences could be severe. A slide toward chaos could trigger the collapse of Iraq’s government and a humanitarian catastrophe. Neighboring countries could intervene. Sunni-Shia clashes could spread. Al Qaeda could win a propaganda victory and expand its base of operations. The global standing of the United States could be diminished. Americans could become more polarized.
In other words, the ISG report says that accepting defeat would have devastating consequences for Iraq and the region.
Klobuchar said she was part of a group of four senators who met with President Bush at the White House last week. “I told him that now is the time to forge cooperation with our Democrats in Congress,” she said.
Ms. Klobuchar thinks that cooperation is President Bush caving into the Democrats’ defeatist policy. That isn’t cooperation. That’s a recipe for disaster. I’d love asking Ms. Klobuchar why President Bush should write off the Middle East. I’d further like hearing her response to why she thinks defeat in Iraq is an acceptable outcome. Lastly, I’d love finding out why Ms. Klobuchar thinks that abandoning our allies will help maintain credibility with the world community.
It seems to me that Democrats have painted themselves into a corner in a couple of respects. If they deny our troops the funds they need to win and the Middle East erupts in violence, they’ll be blamed for giving al Qa’ida terrorists safe haven, for giving Iran another forward operating base and for destroying our credibility throughout the world.
Worst of all, they’d be blamed for making America less safe and for destroying the troops’ morale.
That’s simply unacceptable.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
April 21st, 2007 at 2:17 am
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April 21st, 2007 at 6:40 am
Sadly, they wont be held to account, and they know it. Just like they painted Vietnam as a Nixon war and defeat (it was actually a Kennedy/Johnson war and the democrats, by cutting off military assistance caused the collapse of South Vietnam, They will paint any future violence as caused by Bush’s war not their retreat. The media will rewrite history and within 2 years we will all believe the new “reality”
April 21st, 2007 at 9:39 am
Yet another Minn democrat accepts defeat, shamelessly and without hesitation.
Is anyone shocked by anything the party of defeat does anymore?
The democrats have “bought”, with endless entitlements the vote of the weak minded scumbags (and illegals). Just what we need a bunch of welfare moms electing our government officials. And we wonder HOW?? a democrat can get elected and why America is on the path of destruction.
April 22nd, 2007 at 3:39 pm
democrats do not want democracy in Iraq, because they are not democrats, they are socialists.