Say Anything Blog

From a Washington Post article about the kidnapped American soldiers in Iraq:

Mohamad al-Janabi, a reputed al-Qaeda member in the nearby city of Salman Pak, said in a telephone interview that he was unable to contact his comrades in Mahmudiyah to determine whether they were responsible for the attack.

But he added: “I can assure you that we will start pressuring Bush in a new way at the same time he is facing pressures from the Democrats and the American people. And there will be no problem to sacrifice 10 soldiers in order to abduct a single American soldier and get him on television screens begging for us to release him.”

There are so many things wrong with those comments.

First, it’s wonderful that our journalists in Iraq interview reputed al Qaeda members over the phone rather than, you know, turning them in so they quit killing Americans and Iraqis.

It’s also wonderful that the Democrats, once again, find themselves advocating for the very same thing al Qaeda wants: Full scale withdrawal from Iraq.  The terrorists know that Democrat defeatism, amplified by the liberal media’s complicity, is eroding American support for the war and they’re looking to do everything they can to further that erosion.  Meaning that, whether the Dems like it or not, both they and the terrorists are working for the same objective in Iraq.