Residual Forces

Democrat’s Retreat Plan - Round 2. The Democrats are getting back to their roots on Iraq. That is their ‘cut and run’, ‘retreat’, ‘we lost let’s go home’, or ‘Viet Nam = ad so all war is bad’ let’s protest and demoralize our troops’ roots.

WASHINGTON — After months of trying unsuccessfully to develop a common message on the war in Iraq, Democratic Party leaders are beginning to coalesce around a broad plan to begin a quick withdrawal of US troops and install them elsewhere in the region, where they could respond to emergencies in Iraq and help fight terrorism in other countries.

So, if you know the troops will be needed, why have them move hundreds or thousands of miles away? (I know, they have no clue what strategy really means. They think it is just a political word. So strategy in war situations to them, means political.)

The concept, dubbed ‘’strategic redeployment,” is outlined in a slim, nine-page report coauthored by a former Reagan administration assistant Defense secretary, Lawrence J. Korb, in the fall.

Do they really think that a ’slim nine page report’ holds the key to winning the war on terror?

Howard Dean, Democratic National Committee chairman, has endorsed Korb’s paper and begun mentioning it in meetings with local Democratic groups. In addition, the study’s concepts have been touted by the senator assigned to bring Democrats together on Iraq — Jack Reed of Rhode Island — and the report has been circulated among all senators by Senator Dianne Feinstein, an influential moderate Democrat from California.

Stop the press, Feinstein a moderate? My arse!

The party remains divided on some points, including how much detail to include in a party-produced document, fearful of giving too much fodder for attacks by Republicans.

You notice, the Democrats are more worried about the Republicans than they are the Terrorists.

But in its broad outlines, many leading Democrats say the Korb plan represents an answer to Republicans’ oft-repeated charge that Democrats aren’t offering a way forward on Iraq — and to do so in a way that is neither defeatist nor blindly loyal to the president.

Sorry, but retreating is retreating. And why is doing the right thing, even if that means siding with Bush, the wrong thing to do? Oh yeah, your fever swamp base will disown you. Cater to base, that is teh Dem’s plan for everything.

”We’re not going to cut and run — that’s just Republican propaganda,” Dean said in a speech Feb. 10 in Boston. [...]

Really, OK, then what is your plan?

”But we are going to redeploy our troops [...]

You mean move them out of Iraq? How is that … nevermind

so they don’t have targets on their backs, and they’re not breaking down doors [...]

What does he mean, “breaking down doors”? Looks like another Dean - ‘we’re the bad guys’ statement to me.

and putting themselves in the line of fire all the time. . . . [...]

What is the military for? Would it be better for civilians here in the US to do battle with the guys who want us dead?

It’s a sensible plan.

Senseless, maybe.

It’s a thoughtful plan.

I’m sure someone had to think of it.

I think Democrats can coalesce around it.”

Luckily, it includes retreating, so they can get behind the troops doing something.

Reed, an Army veteran and former paratrooper who has been charged with developing a party strategy on the war, said the plan is attractive to many Democrats because it rejects what he calls the ”false dichotomy” suggested by President Bush: that the only options in Iraq are ‘’stay the course” or ”cut and run.”

Taking all the troops out of a war zone is retreating! Hello? McFly?

There you have it America, the Democrats are just now formulating their plan for Iraq. Not for the motive of what is the best thing to do, but what is best for the Democrats.

Ask not What is Good for the Country, Ask What is Good For the Democratic Party

”It’s important to note that it’s not withdrawal — it’s redeployment,” Reed said. ”We need to pursue a strategy that is going to accomplish the reasonable objectives, and allow us to have strategic flexibility. Not only is it a message, but it’s a method to improve the security there and around the globe.”

Taking all the troops out of a war zone is retreating! Hello? McFly? If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is a duck. Reasonable objectives? Does that mean, a message sold to voters that will result in Democrats getting elected? Or that Iraq has a chance at freedom from the terrorists?

Ask not What is Good for the Country, Ask What is Good For the Democratic Party