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To: LindyBill who wrote (14597)	11/1/2003 1:11:29 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793738

Excellent WSJ article, LB...We'll have occassion to remember Halloween was when it was printed, so we can find it again. Fickle Interventionists The terrorists in Iraq are hoping to prevail in Washington. --A good portion of the Democratic Party and its intellectual cohort are already predicting American defeat. --Incredibly, every Democratic Presidential candidate save Dick Gephardt and Joe Lieberman has opposed Mr. Bush's $87 billion request to fight the war. Senators John Edwards and John Kerry voted against this money to finish the war they both voted to start. Wesley Clark not only opposes the money but this week blamed Mr. Bush for failing to stop September 11. Of all people, a decorated Vietnam veteran such as Mr. Clark must understand that his words are heard not just in Des Moines and Nashua but in the Baathist bunkers of Tikrit and Fallujah. We are not saying that these voices want the U.S. to lose. But their criticism is so virulent and unconstructive that it is clear they won't let themselves believe that America could win. --Certainly Mr. Bush's handling of the war is fair game for criticism. The President took a premature victory lap this spring and failed to anticipate the nature of the guerrilla uprising. After it began, Mr. Rumsfeld waited too long to admit it was a guerrilla war. We also wish the Secretary of State were doing more to convince Iran and Syria that the price of opposing the U.S. in Iraq will be high. Most important, we are now paying for the U.S. failure to enlist more Iraqis as our allies long before the war. --All of these, however, are questions about execution rather than the basic U.S. purpose in Iraq. That purpose is to drain the terror swamp at its Middle Eastern core by defeating the Baathists and terrorists and establishing a stable and free Iraq. The stakes are so large that perhaps even our fickle liberal elites will yet conclude that the U.S. can't afford to fail.