The NY Daily News is officially a RW rag!

[ProSense]

The Senate votes on pulling out of Iraq revealed a damning fact: Of the many Democrats running for President, there is not yet a commander in chief among them. No one who imagines personally shouldering the terrible burdens of wartime leadership could possibly vote for either of those awful resolutions.

Yet the five Dem Senators aiming for the Oval Office - Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Christopher Dodd and Russ Feingold - raised their hands to demand troops begin leaving Iraq this year and that President Bush submit a plan for total withdrawal. Kerry and Feingold went a sorry step further by sponsoring a resolution calling for a complete withdrawal in a year.

The efforts got only a single GOP vote and not even all the Democratic ones, a sign of Dem disarray and GOP decisions not to run from the war. One result is that the momentum is changing. Less than five months before midterm elections, a Democratic sweep looks less likely. Once again, Bush's flaws, which are huge, seem less dangerous than unprincipled ambition and fecklessness.

Dems hate to be accused of "cutting and running," but what else to call those deplorable war votes? Kerry, the instigator, tried a sleight-of-hand, saying his measure envisioned a "redeployment" within a year. C'mon - redeployment is another word for retreat. And surrender. And defeat.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/429629p-362255c.html

It is no philosophically dishonorable thing to hold anti-war sentiments. But the Kerrys of Capitol Hill, and the Feingolds and the Murthas and the rest of them, have it backward with their cries that nothing but swift pullout can possibly ennoble the battered national soul. This crowd acts like it thinks President Bush really enjoys being in Iraq and lies awake nights thinking up new ways we can maybe stay there forever and ever.

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Wiser, but still misguided, were the Democrats who voted against date-certain pullout but urged the start of a phased withdrawal as 2006 draws to its close. Among them were New York's own Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer. Promoting a phased withdrawal, whatever that means, regardless of battlefield conditions might help with the political calendar. But militarily speaking, it's a laugher.

Not lost on us is the fact that Clinton was booed recently for failing to satisfy activists who would like nothing more than for her to personally drive a Humvee out of Baghdad. Regrettably, the war is a strictly politics issue in some quarters, but that is no surprise.

So congratulations to Congress for mustering the courage to pronounce the commitment to put down a horde of fanatic gangsters who would build a demented caliphate across the known world.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/429012p-361759c.html

[SeveneightyWhoa]

1. I thought this was a well-established, well-known fact?

Only the NY Post is more right-wing, isn't it?

[ProSense]

2. They endorsed Bush in 2004!

They endorsed Clinton in 1992 and 1996 and Gore in 2000. Still, these articles are pushing conservative positions. They sound like they were written by freepers.