Cokie & Steve Come Clean

Steve and Cokie Roberts’ most recent column, Dems must tread very carefully, advises democrats to continue to criticize George W. Bush on his Iraq policy, but to eschew their “moral” convictions to actually take any legislative action. Cokie & Steve think that losing in Iraq is a ‘political’ winner for the Dems; as long as their hands are clean they plan on pinning everything bad on Bush.
Omitted from the Roberts column is any mention of al Qaida’s responsibility for making a mess of Iraq, the desire for America to prevail in Iraq or for the Iraqi government to succeed. Messers Roberts not only expect the U.S. to lose in Iraq, they are openly cheering for the failure of democracy in Baghdad, as their best hope for a democrat victory in Washington D.C.
Ironically, while Steve & Cokie disparage Vice President Cheney for taking on anti-war critics, these despicable columnists make the Veep’s case themselves. Claiming that Dems were elected with an anti-war mandate belies the defeat of Ned Lamont. Voters may have been unhappy with Republican governance, but the vote in 2006 was not one for retreat or defeat in Iraq.
As Obama, Edwards and Richardson vie to be the first to abandon our international commitments, Hillary claims that,”had I known then what I now know today, I wouldn’t have voted to give the President the authority to invade Iraq.” In other words, Mrs. Clinton is saying that she would have voted to have left Saddam in power, would have been satisfied when the U.N. inspectors got hood-winked, would have allowed Gulf War sanctions and no-fly zones to be dismantled and would have trusted that Hussein and Sons, Inc. would not reconstitute nuclear capabilities and would have believed that those weapons would not be handed-off to terrorist organizations.
By the way, if President Bush could get that same ‘do-over’ (given perfect hindsight), what would he have done differently over the past 4 years? Apparently, in the next Clinton Administration, ‘The Buck does NOT Stop here”.
If you think that today’s democrats stand for defeat, I give you Cokie & Steve Roberts.
If you think that the democrat front-runners were for cutting & running, I give you Barak, John, Bill and Hill.
But if you think that winning the peace is paramount, let’s give the troops time to improve conditions on the ground in Iraq.
Betting that the war is headed for a crash, may not be prudent and our next great “folk hero” may yet be George W. Bush.