This panel discussion I saw on PBS News Hour on Tuesday night, preceded by a news report on grass-roots activists, is typical of the liberal/anti-war attitude I despise, where they put on a front of being patriotic while undermining the support of our military in Iraq.

At every stage of the last 4-plus years of the war in Iraq, these assholes constantly raise doubt of America's commitment to protect people in Iraq who are struggling to build and stabilize democracy there.
And if we pull out, all these people with be slaughtered, something the anti-war people never bother to mention.



This guy Jon Soltz (in the streaming video for this discussion), is the epitome of the liberal uncivility: smug, antagonistic, demonizing his opposition, and filling his comments with divisive and misleading one-liners.

And typical of liberals for the last 4 years, and before this war even began, he (and his like-minded ilk, Reid, Pelosi, etc) constantly ingrain into the public that we can't win in Iraq, rather than looking for a policy that presses for course change that will insure victory.


All the Democrats leadership cares about is winning the 2008 election. And they're perfectly willing to burn America to the ground in the long term, just to win that short-term victory.

Abandoning Iraq to chaos, slaughter and al Qaida is not an alternative strategy, and just insures Iraq (if we leave) will become a hub of terrorism, from which to attack the U.S., Europe, and moderate governments in the Middle East.

All I see is liberal whining and cowardly talk of abandonment. I see no pursuit of a victory-focused alternative in Iraq, or of long-term defense of the United States from Islamic radicalism, that leaving Iraq would leave us vulnerable to.