[I] read the same jaw-dropping accounts of drugged up, hallucinating, and stressed out U.S. troops, "killing the wrong people all the time . . ."
The killings in Haditha--like Abu Ghraib, like Bagram, like Guantanamo, like all the everyday, unheralded horrors perpetrated on innocent Iraqi civilians--have made America less safe. . . .
The Dems seem to be having a hard time grasping that the right thing--the obvious thing--is for them to unabashedly say, "We are the party that will bring the troops home." A move that will keep us all safer. . . .
A prominent Democrat recently told me that he was worried and that he wished the 2006 election was today because he wasn't sure where things would stand five months from now.
Really?
Let me clue him in. One thing is for sure: five months from now, we'll still be in Iraq, fighting a counterinsurgency we're not prepared to fight, with more Hadithas--and a less safe America--the inevitable result.
If Democrats can make this their defining issue, they can stop worrying about the laundry list of "what ifs" they are now obsessing over: What if people forget about Katrina and Abramoff and DeLay? What if gas prices come down? What if GOP gerrymandering trumps voter unrest? What if the gay marriage ruse works again?
