This is getting old…

WASHINGTON (CNN)—House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Wednesday told reporters “the solution in Iraq is a political solution” after the commander of U.S. forces in that nation briefed Hoyer and other House members on the four-year old war there.

After listening to Gen. David Petraeus, Hoyer said he thinks the fight in Iraq is not against al Qaeda but is “a virulent sectarian battle against various factions within the Iraq populous that has not been brought under control by the Iraqis themselves.”

I’d like to hear Hoyer, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid or any of the other Democrats talking about a “political solution” for Iraq tell us how that “political solution” is supposed to happen if we pull our troops out and leave the new Iraqi government vulnerable to the machinations of the terrorists.

This isn’t a war of aggression in Iraq.  If we lay down our arms or withdraw our troops the violence won’t stop, it will get worse.  The whole reason we’re fighting in Iraq is to protect the Iraqis and their government from the terrorists so that a political solution can happen in Iraq.

When the Democrats talk about a “political” solution it’s just so many empty words.