Death by 246 undercuts: House Democrats vote for slow exsanguinating bleed before cut and run

Assisted by 17 Republicans, House Democrats passed a non-binding concurrent resolution to oppose President Bush’s new Iraq policy.

After years of Democrat carping over the need for more troops, a different strategy, increased Iraqi involvement and more diplomatic efforts, the President conceded to them and gave the Democrats what they wanted, only to be rebuffed and rebuked.

Once again, Democrats demonstrate that they cannot be trusted to defend the nation.

The anti-war factions love to paint Iraq as another Vietnam. With this vote they got their wish.

The 1968 Tet Offensive was seen as a costly military failure by the North Vietnamese. Their attempt to spark a “general uprising” against the South Vietnamese government in the wake of what was to be a successful offensive did not work. Unfortunately, the media and the anti-war factions spun a North Vietnamese defeat into an American Defeat.

The North Vietnamese were ready to sue for peace, however, as North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap said in his 1985 memoir about the war, if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S. The rest, as they say, is history.

It may be too soon to accurately assess the impact of this vote. To be sure, one can make a credible argument that it emboldens the enemy and undercuts our troops. The Democrats have codified their policy of cut and run or cut and walk or cut and crawl into bleed out support and leave.