Iraqi Leader Dissed By Dems

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Here's a nice editorial about how Barbara Boxer and company chose to boycott the speech given to Congress by the Iraqi Prime Minister.

[[ WHEN the first democratically, constitutionally elected prime minister of Iraq spoke before the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, a group of Democrats protested by sitting the speech out. Among the no-shows was California's own Sen. Barbara Boxer.

Her loss.

Boxer, the Senate's leading proponent of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, could have gained much from Nouri Kamal al-Maliki's impassioned plea on behalf of the people who risked their lives to elect him. It would have done her well to hear his exhortations that America not abandon Iraqis in their fight against Islamist terror, or undermine their brave effort to establish a liberal democracy.

“The fate of our country and yours is tied,” said al-Maliki. “Should democracy be allowed to fail in Iraq and terror permitted to triumph, then the War on Terror will never be won ... If in continued partnership we have the strength of mind and commitment to defeat the terrorists and their ideology in Iraq, they will never be able to recover.”

America has a vested interest in how the war between democrats and terrorists plays out in Iraq. If the current government crumbles, Iraq could become the international staging ground for terrorist attacks that Afghanistan was until 2001. Moreover, America's enemies would be emboldened by our lack of resolve, as they were when U.S. forces left Beirut in 1984 and Somalia in 1994. ]]

There is a lot more... so get to it.

Boxer "Redeploys," Misses Good Speech

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