The Democrats' Moral Bankruptcy

Congress' Democratic leaders obviously did not listen to what Gen. David Petraeus said this week. Their plan is to lose in Iraq in hopes it will win them the White House. But Americans aren't buying.

House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio might have put it best in a conference call with reporters after arriving in Iraq with other Republican congressmen this week:

"I think that our Democratic colleagues have invested all of their political capital all year in failure in Iraq, and now that we're having success in Iraq and hopefully will continue to have success, I'm not sure they have anyplace to go."

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