Chris was either told by the dem party or figured it out himself that bashing a 4 star general would not help the dem presidential candidates who want to be commander-in-chief of the armed forces. It's a matter of time before the dem candidates start back-tracking too.

A quick search of the web under “coming war with Iran” will bring up a plethora of articles predicting that the “reckless” administration is preparing a “disastrous” war with Iran.  Most all of them predict that this attack is imminent.  Only trouble is, these so-called scholars have been making these dire predictions for going on five years now.  Most all of these “prediction” claim that any such war will result in 10’s of thousands of U.S. casualties, the destruction of the American Army etc. etc. blah blah blah. We’ve heard it all before.  These are all just faint echoes of the predictions of the “disastrous” result that was predicted if we invaded Iraq.  Go back and check for yourself.  They were wrong then why should any reasonable person think they would be right this time?  Isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same stupid thing over and over and expecting a different result?

So here we are 4 years into the conflict in Iraq and U.S. fatal casualties are still below 4000, and if we were to consider only combat casualties it is lower still.  Has everything in Iraq gone well, have mistakes been made?  By their very nature, wars are messy things and they never go according to plan.  But all in all the predictions of massive casualty rates, Israel being dragged into the conflict and a wider war have all proven false.

Even before General Petraeus’ report the signs of the troop surge making real progress were so visible that even the New York Times and the alphabet networks had to acknowledge it.  Nothing could have made the “surrender now” crowd in Congress know as the Democrat Party any more incensed.  Desperate to turn Iraq into a repeat of their delusional political “victory” in the Vietnam war, the knives came out.  Unable to deny the real progress being made, the liberals in Congress turned to personal attacks on the man whom they unanimously praised in confirming his promotion to senior field commander in Iraq, now all but calling him a liar and accusing him of being nothing more than a shill for the President’s policy. 

The Democrats have become the source of modern day Orwellian “newspeak.” Never mind what I said yesterday or the day before its only today’s version of “truth” you need concern yourself with.  Never mind that during the 2004 election cycle it was “there can never be political solution in Iraq (i.e. elections), with out a military one.”  Well now there have been successful elections in Iraq, three of them.   So the party line now changes to “there can never be military solution in Iraq, with out a political one.” 

I only wish the General had had the gumption to quote Joseph Welsh’s response to Joe McCarthy.  “Have you no sense of decency?  Have you no shame?”  To which I would have added “Well maybe not you Senator Clinton but how about the rest of you?”

That's the great thing about being a liberal in the media: you get to change your mind without repercussion. You can always say "that explanation is no longer operable."

It's appropriate today to remember what Rabin said: "You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies." If Matthews is starting to come around, maybe American national reconciliation is somehow possible. Like Crocker's testimony, we need to encourage the current trajectory (i.e., as of today) .

Chris, your fly's down ... again. 

And stop slobbering all over Laura Ingraham.