It's still not safe to vote Democrat

President Bush had a pretty good presser yesterday. I say pretty good, because while he laid out clearly what was at stake in Iraq, he then went on equivocate about our commitment there. He seemed to say a couple of times that Iraq was the central front in the war on terror and then say things like “we don’t have unlimited patience” or “we’re not there to be caught in the crossfire of sectarian violence.” Well it seems to me that the president just gave the Islamo-terror-fascists a roadmap. Keep up the sectarian violence and the patience will, at some point, run out.

I’d have delivered the patience message to the Iraqi government in secret. During the presser, I’d have given the terrorists no room for hope. I’d have said something along lines of, “As long as we can kill the enemy in the streets of Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, we will stay.” A statement like that would have would-be terrorists scratching their heads thinking, “Well, maybe there is a political way out of this after all.”

The other thing giving the jihadis hope and is probably as responsible as anything for the step up in violence in Iraq is the American election. These guys seem to think that all they have to do to get America to cut and run is get Democrats elected. That flawed thinking is similar to conservatives believing that if you want smaller government and less spending, all you have to do is elect Republicans.

There are probably enough Democrats that understand “redeploying to Okinawa” is idiocy of the highest order to block any such move. There are probably enough Democrats that understand ceding Iraq and its oil revenue to the jihadis would be a strategic mistake 10,000 times worse than letting the Taliban run amok in Afghanistan to block any such move. But then again, given what passes for leadership in the Democrat party at this point in history, maybe there aren’t enough Democrats that appreciate the long-term strategic importance of Iraq. Which is why Mr. & Mrs. America, it is still not safe to vote Democrat.