DEMOCRATS AND IRAQ

Now that the election is over and the Democrats have gained the majority in the House and Senate they are starting to show their true colors concerning Iraq. During the campaign and the few days after the election Democrat candidates and leaders portrayed a picture of working with the President to find a solution to Iraq while backing off earlier calls by most Democrats for an immediate withdrawl and redeployment to places like Okinawa. As the election fallout started in the days immediatly following November 7th Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid met with the President claiming bipartisan cooperation with the administration on Iraq policy and again stating that the Demcorats did not favor an immediate withdrawl and would work in conjunction with Bush to secure the country and support the Iraqi government until they could support themselves. Now we are a full week away from the election and the Democrats have celebrated and put on their , "conservative, "face long enough to satisfy the voters who pay close attention to the news just prior to and immediatly after an election and have satisfied them with the bipartisan talk. With that done they are beginning to reveal their true intentions about Iraq and , "amazingly, " they echo what they had been saying well before election day, " pull out immediatly." The left wing of the party and those on the fringe believe that they were responsible for bringing the win to the Democrats and have begun pressuring the leadership by calling for the immediate pull out. Of course it does not take much pressure from these far left elements to convince the leadership into doing what they had planned all along, it only confirms their own ideas. This is combined with the Democrat belief that they recieved a mandate on their Iraq policy by the voters rather than the truth about the election which was only a backlash to the GOP and NOT the mandate Demcorats believe. Democrats have also installed in an advisory position for Iraq policy former South Dakota Senator and 1972 Democrat Presidential candidate George McGovern. For those who do not know or do not remember, McGovern ran an anti-war and immediate pull out from Vietnam campaign against Richard Nixon in 1972 a policy that then was unpopular from the immediate pull out stand point with the American people who favored an honarable end providing security for South Vietnam. McGovern lost in a landslide to Nixon. McGovern has stated in his response to his new advisory position that Democrats should develop a policy for a complete pull out by June of 2007 or ,"they would not be in the majority very long." This additude does not match the majority of Americans who though weary of Iraq are NOT in favor of an immediate pull out but rather developing a strategy that will insure Iraqs soveriegnty and capability to govern and protect herself keeping US forces in the country until this is fully accomplished with a gradual redeployment as the situation warrants it. Senators Carl Levin, Harry Reid and Joe Biden all Democrats have called for a pull out, "within the next few months." Democrats have also called for Iraq to be partitioned into semi-autonomous Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions with the help of neighboring nations this inspite of the fact that millions of Iraqis under death threats have voted for a centralized government with a single Parlament and leadership that is represented by the three different influences in the country. With an announced , "redeployment, " timetable over the next few months, what is to prevent the terrorist entity and the insurgents from just waiting it out until we leave ? Additionally there has been talk of bringing Iran and Syria to the table seeking their input and assistance in stabalizing Iraq. Both countries have stated that they are more inetersted in controling Iraq in much the same way that they do Lebannon. Iran has been supporting the insurgency with weapons and manpower in an attempt to destabalize the country and force the US out so they can take over. Bringing Iran and Syria, "to the table, " in Iraq would be tantamonut to inviting the fox to the hen house to ask him how best to take care of the chickens. While there are problems in Iraq a quick and immediate pull out as the Demcorats are wanting would be a disaster for Iraq, the Middle East and The United States. Iran, Syria and terrorist entities like Al Qaeda would quickly move into the country taking over and imprisoning the people under tiranical rule and subjegation to Islamic fascism which has been promised by all three if they could control the country. Many on the left beleive this idea of a take over of Iraq by terrorists elements and Iran/Syria to be only a political ploy used by the President to support administration policy. Even Nancy Pelosi stated in her famous 60 Minutes interview before the election that she believed that the insurgency would stop or would not increase after the US left. Both beliefs are fallacies believed by the left that terrorists and insurgents have both stated was not true. In fact both have promised just the opposite. Iran has had as a stated goal the take over of Iraq forcing a theocratic Islamic rule on the country since the 1979 Islamic take over of Iran by Ayatollah Khomeini.

The first few months of 2007 as Democrats take control of the House and Senate will determine the fate of Iraq the Middle East and in a very real sense The United States if they follow their plan to pull out of Iraq in the first few months of the year or by June at the latest. We will soon see a complete collapse of the country into anarchy as terrorism reigns and Iran begins its push to dominance in the country and the region. Al Qaeda will once again have a base of operations, a base that was eliminated by US forces in Afghanistan. The Iraqi people will once again fall under forced rule rather than the Democracy they desire. Whether the Democrats believe it or not these are the facts and realities of the situation and their wishful thinking and false beliefs will not stop it. We are the buffer that is preventing this until Iraq can prevent it on their own. Re-evaluating the current strategy and designing a working policy that stabalizes Iraq, strenghtens the voted for central government and protects the country from Iran and terrorism will prevent the scenerio I have mentioned above. A pull out as called and planned for by the Democrats will only hasten it!

Ken Taylor