As the Bush presidency winds down, we remember the Iraq War, by far his most controversial decision.
Let me rephrase it.
It became a controversial decision once the fighting got tough, as it always does in every war.
It was not a controversial decision in March 2003!
On the contrary, every major Dem went to the TV cameras to show his or her support for the decision to remove Saddam Hussein.
In 2006, they said "vote for us" and we will end the Iraq War!
They won but they didn't have the guts to cut the funding! They were afraid of implementing their campaign promise. Why? Because they didn't want to own the consequences. They just wanted the issue!
This is why we call them "poll readers" and "profiles in political cowardice"! This is in sharp contrast to Pres. Bush or Sen McCain who put their political fortunes on the line rather than take the easy way out. We call that a "profile in courage"!
After all, who will ever forget Hillary Clinton's "double talk" on Iraq!
Back to Iraq and the progress over there.
We have often linked to Michael Yon's website!
We enjoy reading what Omar and Mohammed Fadhil write from a new Iraq.
Most of all, we love the picture of a woman voting in Iraq for the first time!
Where are the world's feminists? Shouldn't they be jumping up and down that women finally got to vote in Iraq? (And Afghanistan!)
Looking back, it still amazes how the Dems were willing to cut and run from a noble cause, specially something that they supported with such passion.
It continues to amaze how quickly we forgot that Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons against innocent people, including his own countrymen. As we posted a couple of years ago, Did someone tell the Kurds that Saddam did not have WMDs?:
It wasn't long ago that Al Gore and Bill Clinton were the leading advocates of removing Hussein.
Who is this guy blasting the first Bush for leaving Saddam Hussein in power? The answer is candidate Al Gore in 1992:
Who is this guy? Does he look familiar? This is Pres. Clinton speaking to the Congress about Iraq and WMDs? Wonder where Pres. Bush learned that Saddam had WMDs?
P.S. The last word comes from the liberal Pete Beinart: Admit It: The Surge Worked! He praises Pres. Bush for hanging tough. He also advises Dems to say that the surge worked. Let's see if they do, specially now that Pres Obama and the Dems own Iraq again!
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