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(Dems) obsessing over their mythical creations that Mr. Bush lied and tortures, or the unintelligible psychobabble of John Kerry calling for nonspecific, specific timetables and the setting of benchmarks."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20051212-094443-1244r.htmBoxed in politically
By David Limbaugh December 13, 2005
At the core of the Democrats' incessant carping about the war in Iraq is their oft-stated belief our invasion and continued presence there fuel the terrorist movement. But when you hear them argue the point, you can't help come away with the sense they are not concerned with the terrorists' moral outrage but their own. They just don't dare admit it. You've heard them say our presence in Iraq incites otherwise peaceful Muslims to don their suicide bomber belts, and, "The Iraqi people view us as occupiers, not liberators." And how about their enthusiasm for the highly dubious (and patently absurd) poll that 80 percent of Iraqis want us out? Surely they know Islamofascist terrorists, who declared war on us years before they attacked us without provocation on September 11, 2001, don't need any prompting to hate us infidels, capitalists and cultural decadents.
But if we were to turn tail and run out of Iraq, they would hate us even more, because their hatred would be compounded by a profound disrespect for our weakness and cowardice. If you truly want to incite further terrorist action against America, adopt the Democrats' Neville Chamberlainesque approach to aggressive and brutal enemies, or emulate Bill Clinton's precedent in Mogadishu.
Yet the Democrats can't possibly afford to say what they really think. It would be politically suicidal for them to express sympathy for the terrorists' ostensible moral indignation at our intervention, so they couch their objections in pragmatic terms: Our actions recruit more terrorists. But their own moral objections to the war are too overpowering to be masked.
Why else would they deliberately overlook America's accomplishments in Iraq and the historic progress of Iraqis toward constitutional self-rule? Why would they rush to embrace innuendo, propaganda, rumors and lies about American misconduct, from allegations Americans tortured terrorist detainees and terrorized Iraqi citizens? Why would they eagerly spread the lie we killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis? Why do they downplay the atrocities and oppression of Saddam's reign of terror?….Until they have the guts to openly admit their moral opposition to the mission, they'll be reduced to bogus arguments about terrorist recruitment, destructive obsessing over their mythical creations that Mr. Bush lied and tortures, or the unintelligible psychobabble of John Kerry calling for nonspecific, specific timetables and the setting of benchmarks.