It was just months ago that Sen. Harry Reid with his eyes on a Democratic White House win declared in no uncertain terms that US forces lost the war in Iraq. When called on his declaration Harry obediently shut his trap for a few weeks. When he couldn’t explain how he could declare a war that had already been won lost, he shut up. When he said that the surge had been a failure when it wasn’t yet fully in place and called on it, he shut up. On the day that the surge was fully in place and beginning full operations in Iraq, Harry then again went before the Senate and declared the war in Iraq lost and that the surge was a failure.

Now several weeks after this monumental case of foot-IN-mouth disease, members of the Senate Majority Leader’s own party have visited Iraq and have returned stating, without ambiguity, that the surge is in fact working. Oh my stars, it is actually working?!? Even the incredibly biased main stream media have declared the troops surge a success. A declaration which I would never expected in the current state of the so-called objective msm. So what is the Democrats’ strategy now? To attack the Iraqi government.

I will admit that the Iraqi government hasn’t done enough to end the sectarian violence. But then again, how can we expect centuries of tribal differences to be solved overnight? We are talking about 3 different ethnic factions within this government who have been at war with each other, unless suppressed by a dictator, for literally centuries; but yet American politicians expect these factions to kiss and make up for the sake of excusing our troops expeditiously.

Sen. Carl Levin, one of the Democrats who have recently visited Iraq and returned with a positive report on the surge, is now attacking Iraqi PM al-Maliki.

“I hope the Iraqi assembly, when it reconvenes in a few weeks, will vote the Maliki government out of office and have the wisdom to replace it with a less sectarian and more unifying prime minister and government.” SOURCE

What Levin fails to realize is no matter who the Iraqi people elect, they will be sectarian because of the tribal differences which have existed since long before Mohammad had his drug induced hallucinations and started the cult known as Islam.

What’s worse is that others from his party, such as Presidential wannabe Hillary Clinton, has stated similar sentiments in the past few weeks. It seems that since the whole idea that the troops surge wasn’t working got pulled out from under them, they have all needed another battle cry to get US troops out of Iraq prematurely. They can’t do it based on poor performance so they have dreamed up the idea of attacking a perception of an ungrateful government. And in particular an ungrateful and uncooperative Prime Minister.

Levin’s statements have prompted al-Maliki to fire back.

“There are American officials who consider Iraq as if it were one of their villages, for example Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin. They should come to their senses.” SOURCE

And al-Maliki is right. We have a moral obligation in Iraq to provide security after we dismantled the existing military in 2003. The initial decisions to de-Baathify the Iraqi government was in error as the security situation rapidly degraded and al Qeada took up residence. We gave them the opportunity and the tools to create a democracy; but it is up to them what they do with those tools. Until Iraqi Security Forces are able to control the security situation in Iraq, we must continue to provide that security. Until al Qeada is removed from Iraq, we must pursue them in Iraq. But as far as their internal political strife is concerned, that isn’t our business.

This said however, if their government should begin to move into a direction that is politically in opposition to our interests, we have the ability to leave. We must keep that position. We must let them know that should they move into a non-democratic direction, we’re gone Jack.

But for us to tell them (or more importantly for a low level insignificant politician from the opposition party at that to tell them) how to handle their internal politics is beyond wrong. That would be akin to the Chinese telling us after the 2008 election that they don’t like who we selected and insist that we remove that person in favor of another. It just isn’t done.

I have news for all these Democrats who think that they are running things, you aren’t. It took this nation 11 years to develop a document which established this nation. 11 years! Saddam was in charge just 4 years ago in Iraq.

And for all of you block-heads out there who call our operation in Iraq a war, the war was over 4 years ago you nit-wit. We haven’t been in conflict with Iraqi forces since 2003. The war is over. And guess what? We won.

One more thing before I go.

It takes a big pair of stones to talk about another government’s inability to get anything done when the government you lead hasn’t done a damned thing since you were put in charge of it. What have the Dems to celebrate so far in this do-nothing Congress? The minimum wage increase? They had to slip that in the back door. It was a rider on the War Supplemental. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.