Above and Beyond all that, the simple fact is that Iraq IS NOT A WAR. It is a campaign or a theater in a global war. NOTHING the US does in Iraq will end the war. Nothing. Stay, go, win lose, the war will go on. This administration’s idea that Democracy is some sort of virus that will infect the ME if we grow it in Iraq is completely delusional.
Think about it. If Democracy was a virus, then why is Cuba still under the rule of a despot? N. Korea? Russia? If Japan didn’t infect Russia, how the ‘ell will Iraq infect Saudi Arabia?
It won’t. Iraq is important because it is the laboratory for the tactics we will need to do regime change in about 20 other countries. That is the ugly job in front of America. If the left accepts the fact that Iraq is part of a global war, then they also buy into having to do regime change on a whole bunch of despots. Or surrender. Once they figure out that they will be the first ones executed, that idea will vanish.
So by pretending that Iraq is a stand alone war, the left can fight tooth and nail for the terrorists at every opportunity. For some silly reason I can’t figure out, the left thinks that this war was caused by OIF. It’s like, WTC, the U.S.S. Cole and 4700+ attacks between 1980 and 2000 never happened.