The Washington Post Can’t Imagine Why Democrats Oppose a US/Iraq Alliance

The Washington Post said what?

It means that Iraq, a country with the world’s second largest oil reserves and a strategic linchpin of the Middle East, just might emerge from the last five years of war and turmoil as an American ally, even if its relations with Iran remain warm.

So it’s hard to fathom why Democrats in Congress have joined Ayatollah Khamenei in denouncing the U.S.-Iraqi agreements even before they are written. Critics such as Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) are professing to be outraged that the Bush administration might be forging a relationship with Iraq “that parallels the Korea-Japan history,” as Mr. Webb put it. They claim to be shocked by the suggestions of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that U.S. forces might remain in Iraq for decades without controversy if they did not suffer casualties, as has happened in Japan and South Korea. Yet the U.S. alliances with Japan and South Korea have been among the most successful in this nation’s history. While building a similar bond with Iraq may prove impossible, it’s hard to understand why Democrats would oppose it in principle.

Oh, it’s not all that hard to figure out. You just have to stick this new development into the Democrats’ world, where the real enemy is George Bush, Islamists are some regional nuisance that he and his oil-greedy buddies used as a bogeyman to whip up us rubes, and they know for sure that if we just send an FTD bouquet to a few choice leaders in Iran and Indonesia and a cave somewhere near Pakistan, we can have a happy shiny world where the only real evil are those darned Christians and their American Taliban. In their world, Ayatollah Khamenei is really just a misunderstood guy who occasionally executes teenaged girls for not laying still and taking their gang rape like the little whores their country says they are and for hanging gays for being gay.

I used to work from the base assumption that the Democratic Party wanted America to be better off but hat they just wanted to go about it in a different way. After watching the party pajandrums slander our soldiers, compare our President to a Nazi, and claim that he sent thousands of soldiers to death just to fill his pockets with cash, there is no possible way I can believe that any more.

The Post says that the misinformation has been coming from Iran’s proxies in Iraq, but the accusations in the editorial attributes to Iran could have come straight from Barack Obama’s most vociferous supporters, his own campaign, or a Democratic Congressman’s speech. Where else have you heard that George Bush or John McCain want to permanently occupy Iraq or that they want to put dozens or even hundreds of US bases there in a permanent and large-scale fashion outside of Iran’s propagandists? Who else outside of Iran’s paid thugs have been making that claim?

I don’t think the Democrats’ opposition is really hard to figure out at all. Just read their speeches about Iraq before 2003 and afterwards. Draw your own conclusions.

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• Meet the “Most Powerful Man in Iraq”. He Isn’t Iraqi.
• Semper Fidelis!
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