No matter how hard Democrats try;

No matter how many worthless resolutions they pass;

No matter how many times they try to pull the rug out from under our soldiers, their seditious efforts are doomed to failure.

Despite beginning the drawdown for at least 5 of 15 Army combat brigades due to recent tactical successes, House Democrats conjured up another funding proposal that puts the screws to our military by making supplemental war funding contingent upon a rapid withdrawal. But once again, the measure fell short of the bulletproof majority needed to stop a Republican filibuster. Senate Republicans are again siding with the President and calling for a "clean bill" with no timetables. As punishment for the President's obstinance, Democrats won't bring the measure up again until next year, implementing the slow bleed approach and draining military coffers of their operating budgets until our men have no more bullets to fight with. Defense Secretary Gates has signaled that would mean the layoffs of thousands of civilian DoD employees, frozen contracts and cutbacks.

Democrats claim that the military won't run out of money until spring; that they can rely on Enron-style accounting gimmicks and transfer money around to cover other funds that aren't there. They hold hearings, pass legislation and punish corporations for these antics, yet adopt them for our military.

Overall violence in Iraq is down over 50%. In Baghdad that figure is 75%. I.E.D. incidents are down 50% . Dozens of suspects have been killed or captured in recent weeks. I.E.D. factories have been dismantled. Terrorists are on the run. Even the mainstream media and network news have fallen silent. Surely all Americans notice the recent lack of American media coverage in Iraq? With fewer Americans and Iraqis dying, we no longer hear their incessant blather about grim milestones, dead soldiers, or suicide attacks.

But just as the conditions necessary for victory in Iraq are beginning to materialize, Democrats scramble - working overtime to ensure a tactical defeat. I don't care how much pressure is being brought to bear by Code Pink and MoveOn.org, it is time to put an end to this evisceration of our military by the Democratic Party.

Searches of House archives returned 437 House bills from this congress with the search term "Iraq+withdrawal". They've tried everything. They tried forcing direct withdrawals. They tried "strategic redeployment". They tried repealing the President's authority. They tried changing the Revenue Code to allow individuals to "opt out" of paying for the war. They tried forcing an Iraqi referendum on the continued US presence. Dennis Kucinich even tried "ending the US occupation of Iraq" and impeaching Dick Cheney.

Democrats themselves are now simply in appeasement mode - having failed repeatedly to derail the war effort. This attempt is so rotten, the bill has only one cosponsor; the ever-treacherous John Murtha who should be imprisoned, interrogated and water-boarded himself until he apologizes to the Marines of 3/1 Kilo Co. for the media lynching he conducted, but I digress... Contrast Murtha's single cosponsorship with the dozens of cosponsors who hitched their little red wagons to previous failed attempts to end the war. It speaks for itself.

If Democrats would simply support our military for a few months, instead of attacking it and taking the side of the enemy, we could win this thing once and for all. The vast majority of these cowards have never served a day of active duty in their lives and have no business making tactical decisions of this magnitude based on emotion or political pressure.

Antiwar sentiment did not hand the Democrats a majority. Dissatisfaction with Republicans did. After watching this Congress for a year, and seeing their performance and poll numbers sink lower than the President's, it's easy to see why they're unable to forge the consensus necessary to achieve even the most modest of objectives.

Events on the ground in Iraq are evolving so rapidly that Democrat-sponsored legislation cannot be regurgitated fast enough to keep pace with the dynamic nature of the conflict. Democrats have no influence over the war; they are simply forced to react to it under pressure from their constituents. You might say that when it comes to Iraq, the Democratic Party is a day late and a dullard short.

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