Democrats Vote to Surrender

IN a vote that will not survive a veto, the House passed legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops to begin within 120 days, and to be completed by April 1, 2008. The measure envisions a limited residual force to train Iraqis, protect U.S. assets and fight al-Qaida and other terrorists:

The Iraqi government is achieving only spotty military and political progress, the Bush administration conceded Thursday in an assessment that war critics quickly seized on as confirmation of their dire warnings. Within hours, the House voted to withdraw U.S. troops by spring.

The House measure passed 223-201 in the Democratic-controlled chamber despite a veto threat from President Bush, who has ruled out any change in war policy before September.

"The security situation in Iraq remains complex and extremely challenging," the administration report concluded. The economic picture is uneven, it added, and the government has not yet enacted vital political reconciliation legislation.

As many as 80 suicide bombers per month cross into the country from Syria, said the interim assessment, which is to be followed by a fuller accounting in September from Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in the region.

"I believe we can succeed in Iraq, and I know we must," Bush said at a White House news conference at which he stressed the interim nature of the report.

Describing a document produced by his administration at Congress' insistence, he said there was satisfactory progress by the Iraqi government toward meeting eight of 18 so-called benchmarks, unsatisfactory progress on eight more and mixed results on the others.

To his critics — including an increasing number of Republicans — he said bluntly, "I don't think Congress ought to be running the war. I think they ought to be funding the troops."

Democrats saw it differently.

Of course they saw it differently, they are only looking at ending a war we can win all because of racial policies and a desire to see President Bush and America loose. The report from Iraq isn't due for another month and ahalf and the Democratic leadership along with 4 Republican's have voted against even waiting to see what that report says. Its obvious to this writer that the leadership in Wanshington had decided a long time ago what they wanted and damn the facts. For a group opf people that are claiming the President lives in a world other than reality, it sure seems as if the alternate reality is the one in which the Democrats are living.

Compare their doom and gloom assessment with the assessment being given by men on the ground and you'll see who is living in an alternate reality. We can only hope that the deadline date of April 1, 2008 some kind of sick joke on the aprt of the Democrats, who will at that time, simply jump up and scream, "Got Ya, April Fools!"

Yeah...even those cowards wouldn't do something that assinine, would they?