It is the original “plan” to “end the war” that marks Sen. Obama as a great political manipulator with little to no knowledge of what the job of Commander in Chief requires and even less concern to find out.

When AQ and the Mahdi Army were seen as the comming winners and before the Iraqi army was organized, The Democrats, with Sen Obama in the lead, wanted to pull out in a year. It was: “Damn the truck bombs: full speed retreat!” In the US Congress they wrote a law that was a planned US military rout with the enemy (sorry, Edwin, I have to use that word to communicate the idea) getting a copy of the plans.

And if AQ had a problem attacking US during the withdrawal, they could truck bomb schools along the path. And those that think a “car wash” is a technicality — lack patching a leaky roof on public housing or not letting the entire estate turn into a drug market and a no go area for police — will blame the death of every Iraqi child on the US. The forgoing does not even qualify as speculation.

And the final collapse in Iraq would be happening now — not of our enemies (sorry, I used the word again) but of those who sided with us to build an independent future for their country. And the US would be blamed for every summary execution and every rapidly filling mass grave. Turn on your TV. That’s the news now if the Democrats had their way.