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the left is right (and they are angry)

the democrats will not stop this war, or limit the prosecution of it in any significant way. those who were expecting this to happen will be sorely disappointed. surely the left shouldn’t be surprised about the way the democrats are dealing with iraq, but they are.

here’s one guy, terry michael from the washington times, calling out senator biden:

It’s hard to get out of a deal with the devil.

That’s the congressional Democrats’ dilemma, as they continue to treat the Iraq war as a speed bump on their pathway to the perks of restored power, rather than as a moral question to which voters loudly demanded a moral answer two months ago.

Take Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware. “There’s not much I can do about it,” responded the Democratic “leader” on foreign policy, when asked on one of the Sunday venues for pompous pontificators how he would respond to any attempt by President Bush to escalate the war in Iraq (or “surge,” if you prefer it in Orwellian newspeak).

This is a man who sees a future president during his morning look in the mirror. Sadly, the glass reflects an empty suit who embodies the congressional Democrats’ decision to reduce action on Iraq to a political calculus appropriate for the highway appropriations bill, rather than as a moral imperative to challenge a policy that has sent thousands of twenty-somethings to their deaths in the desert…”

You certainly can do something about it, Senator. It’s called leadership. You rise on the Senate floor. You say you were out of your mind to write a blank check for this hideous misprojection of American military power. And then you propose immediate withdrawal, just slow enough to maximize the safety of the 135,000 mostly young men and women you helped put in harm’s way by your collusion with this elective war. You do what Republican Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon had the guts to do last month, stopping just short of accurately labeling this public policy obscenity a criminal enterprise…

good luck with that, mr. michael. most congressional democrats, even though they may agree with him that the iraq war was a dreadful mistake, still have to deal with the consequences of whatever actions they take. that’s why the democrats could never vote for immediate withdrawal of our troops from iraq. even though they may be skeptical of the president’s surge plan, immediate withdrawal is still an undesirable alternative.

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