Before being elected Dems claimed they had a plan for a New Direction in Iraq, and that the plan was not to withdraw by some arbitrary date, and was not a plan to cut funding; ie, not cut funding and runaway.

They got elected in November

In December Democrats (Kerry, Dodd, and others) went to Syria

A few weeks later, the highest ranking leaders of Saddam’s ole regime met in Syria re how to proceed in Iraq

Right after that, the Dems came out with their non-binding opposition to sending more troops to Iraq (recall they had DEMANDED more troops go to Iraq all the way up to Dec 21).

Zawahiri released a tape complaining that Democrats weren’t doing enough, and mocked their non-binding resolution.

Literally days (even measurable in hours) later the Dems broke their pre-election promise of having a new direction that wasn’t a withdrawal, didn’t include timelines, and wasn’t cutting funds. Instead, after Zawahiri spoke, they attached timelines and withdrawal consequences to PRESIDENT BUSH’S benchmarks.

Days after that Dem effort failed, Zawahiri speaks again.

Reid, Pelosi, Dean, Hoyer, Rockefeller, Kennedy, and so forth all blow off:
closed door intelligence meetings
special full-Congress briefings from the Director of National Intelligence
National Intelligence Estimates don’t get read
and when Gen Petraeus leaves the battlefield, flies thousands of miles to brief them…Pelosi gives him a phone call rather than walk down the hall, and Reid refuses to believe anything he says. Murtha says the General is a political hack.

Oh! but…if Zawahiri speaks Democrats listen

Disgusting-utterly disgusting

Willful ignorance pretty much spells it out Word. They think this is all some kind of game of gotcha, for political reasons, without recognizing the consequences. They understand that if Iraq goes badly they win more power. They could care less that as it goes badly more people die, all they see is more seats, more earmarks, more votes.

Sad really, sad….

Also, I just tried creating a new post, and got an error saying there are too many connections.

No I believe they do understand but I also believe they are arrogant enough to believe that they will be able to clean up the mess that they create after they have full control

I firmly believe that Reid and Pelosi fully understand that Iraq is the central front in the war on terror.

Troll, I believe it is willful ignorance. I cannot believe them to be consciously pulling for a defeat; nor cheering on the deaths of American lives, just because it makes George Bush and his GOP supporters look bad, politically (despite the “gotcha” moment from Harry Reid gleefully saying “We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.”). He is thinking in political terms, because I think he does not comprehend the magnitude and gravity of the war we are in.

They are fooling themselves when they mention “we support the troops” and “we don’t want a defeat in Iraq”; because secretly inside, for every IED that goes off, for every carbomb that takes lives, they see it as a nail in the coffin for the GOP. But I seriously do not believe that they consciously relate their actions as contributing to the war going badly; and to costing more lives. Nor do they understand how an American defeat in Iraq will make us less safe here at home.

I also believe they will continue to push for an arbitrary withdraw date or a complete defunding of the war by this time next year.

I honestly believe that their plan is to do whatever it takes to have Iraq collapse by next summer. Their goal is to instigate a genocide so that they have a platform for the Presidential election.

The one and only strategy they have to gain the presidency is total chaos in Iraq. and they will do everything over the next year to insure that. It is the only issue that they can run on.

They don’t care how many americans or iraqies die, the more that die they believe the better it will be for them.

Think about it we have a group of people in charge of our country that to solidify its numbers and control of power is planing and praying for the death of 10s of thousands of people so that they can say the war is wrong and its the republicans fault.

Just so they can spend more of our money implementing universal healthcare and socialism.