Democrats Fear Victory in Iraq

So you don’t think there is a defeatist attitude among the Left? Rep John Murtha, opens his mouth and convinces us otherwise.

Appearing at a town meeting in Arlington, Virginia, with fellow Democratic Rep. James Moran, Murtha said, "A year ago, I said we can't win this militarily, and I got all kinds of criticism." Now, Murtha told the strongly antiwar audience, "I worry about a slow withdrawal which makes it look like there's a victory when I think it should be a redeployment as quickly as possible and let the Iraqis handle the whole thing."

Of course he doesn’t really mean it. When actually held to task on his stance when Republicans brought up a resolution for immediate withdrawal, recall that he voted against it.

WSJ's Best of the Web also points out, that Moran isn't completely credible either. In 2003, they noted:

A Democratic congressman who opposes the liberation of Iraq is blaming the Jews for threatening Saddam Hussein's hold on power. "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this," the Connection newspapers of northern Virginia quoted Rep. Jim Moran as saying last week. "The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going and I think they should."

Democrats support our troops. They just don’t want them to win.