Cowards With Instructions: Democrats & Iraq

But the idea of the American Congress, led by the Democratic Party, swinging in on the side of leniency for the Baathists is an act worthy of the party's history as the refuge of the Confederates in the American Civil War....'Defeatist Democrats,' Editorial, The New York Sun, 3/9/2007

Yes it's true. The Democrat bill for American retreat from Iraq in 2008 has a proviso that requires the Iraqis to repeal the de-Baathification law passed by the Iraqi parliament to rid the country of Saddam's post-mortem influence on that beleaguered country. The New York Sun, New York's only conservative newspaper with more than five minutes worth of editorial content, doesn't mince words about this.

It is beyond us how American soldiers are made any safer by making the Iraqi government look like an American puppet and ordering it from afar to be more lenient on those who collaborated with the vicious regime of Saddam Hussein. Just as illogical is the idea that an American retreat is an appropriate lever with which to threaten the Iraqis. If America leaves, the ones who will really suffer in Iraq won't be the few politicians blocking progress on whatever oil distribution or re-Baathification law Speaker Pelosi wants passed, but millions of innocent Iraqis and those in neighboring countries whose security would suffer...(NY Sun Editorial, continued...)

Why does everyone else in MSM? This attempt by the Democrats in the House and Senate to force an American surrender makes Neville Chamberlain look almost bellicose.

Luther