General Petraeus to Submit Iraq Pullout Plan

 Even as Barack Obama and other Democrats continue to campaign on President Bush and John McCain’s willingness to spend $10 billion a month in Iraq endlessly, plans are underway to bring the troops home. This total lack of respect for the current state in Iraq, this ignoring of what is currently going on even as you say the opposite during campaign stops is astoundingly arrogant and irresponsible.

 First the United States and Iraq agreed on a “time horizon” for withdrawal and now General David Petraeus is finalizing his proposal which should include withdrawing troops from Iraq.

 Democrats continue to ignore the facts on the ground as they continue to tow the party line on an issue they believe they can win politically before the United States wins militarily.

 But it isn’t surprising. Democrats have a long, long history of being on the wrong side of military conflicts and of ignoring the facts on the ground during wartime. The year was 1864 and the Republican president was up for re-election during a time of war. Two victories near the end of Summer by the North began a turning point in the war, the end looked to be in sight. The Republican party adopted President Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation and complete victory with no secession of the south as a plank in their party platform.

 Democrats adopted a plank in the party platform that called for a “cessation of hostilities,” a surrender. They claimed the war was a failure. They ran as their candidate the first man who commanded the Army of the Potomac, George McClellan, (who opposed this plank). Lincoln won in a landslide. They ignored facts on the ground that showed victory could be imminent and in fact the Civil War was over a few months later.

 I am not comparing the Iraq war to the Civil war, I am comparing the mindset of the Democrat party then and now. I am talking about the ignoring of the facts that are right in front of them, if only they wanted to see them. This ignoring of the facts can be dangerous, what would the implications have been in 1864 if the Democrats had their way?

 Even as conditions on the ground in Iraq have improved to the point where withdrawal talks have been ongoing, the Democrat party remains blissfully silent. They continue to say that McCain and Bush want to carry on the war indefinitely even as plans are being made to slowly end the war. Democrats are holding onto this position to appease the far left in the party, facts be damned. The far left isn’t interested in facts.

 This is just plain irresponsible.