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Conservative columnist Ann Coulter.

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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Pennsylvania USA)
Sunday 27 November 2005

Opinion column:

Aiding the enemy

By Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter, a lawyer and political analyst, is a columnist for Human Events.

In the Iraq war so far, the U.S. military has deposed a dictator who had already used weapons of mass destruction and would have used them again. As we now know, Saddam Hussein was working with al-Qaida and was trying to acquire long-range missiles from North Korea and enriched uranium from Niger.

Saddam is on trial. His psychopath sons are dead. We've captured or killed scores of foreign terrorists in Baghdad. The Iraqi people have voted in two free, democratic elections this year. They've even given women the right to vote.

Iraqis have ratified a constitution and will vote for a National Assembly next month. The long-suffering Kurds are free and no longer require 24/7 protection by U.S. fighter jets.

Libya's Moammar Gadhafi has voluntarily dismantled his weapons of mass destruction. Syria has withdrawn from Lebanon. The Palestinians are holding elections.

The American military has accomplished all this with just over 2,000 deaths. These deaths are especially painful because they fall on our greatest Americans. Still, look at what the military has done and compare the cost to 600,000 deaths in the Civil War, 400,000 deaths in World War II and 60,000 deaths in Vietnam.

What is known as a "hawk" in today's Democratic Party looks at what our military has accomplished and -- during the war, while our troops are in harm's way -- demands that we withdraw our troops.

In an upbeat speech now being aired repeatedly on al-Jazeera, Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania said U.S. troops "cannot accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. It is time to bring them home." Claiming the war is "a flawed policy wrapped in illusion," Murtha said the "American public is way ahead of us."

Fed up with being endlessly told "the American people" have turned against the war in Iraq, Republicans asked the Democrats to show what they had in their hand and vote on a resolution to withdraw the troops.

By a vote of 403-3, the House wasn't willing to bet that "the American people" want to pull out of Iraq. The vote is all the more shocking because of what it says about the Democrats' motives in attacking the war (as well as alerting us to three members of Congress we really need to keep an eye on).

It is simply a fact that Democrats like Murtha are encouraging the Iraqi insurgents when they say the war is going badly and it's time to bring the troops home. Whether or not there is any merit to the idea, calling for a troop withdrawal will delay our inevitable victory and cost more American lives.

Anti-war protests in the U.S. during the Vietnam War were a major source of moral support to the enemy. We know that not only from plain common sense, but from the statements of former North Vietnamese military leaders.

What are we to make of the fact that -- as we now know -- the Democrats don't even want to withdraw troops from Iraq? By their own account, there is no merit to their demands. Before the vote, Democrats could at least defend themselves from sedition by pleading stupidity. Now we know they don't believe what they are saying about the war. Thanks to that vote, the Islamo-fascists know it, too.

The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats' behavior other than that they long to see U.S. troops shot, humiliated and driven from the field of battle.

They fill the airwaves with treason but when called to vote on withdrawing troops, disavow their own public statements. These people are not just traitors, they are gutless traitors.

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