A Monumental Historic Event In Iraq. (And The Left Rages On.)

Well it's finally the weekend and I have survived a disastrous week of over-activity at work. While I toiled and troubled, a lot happened that I just did not have time to write about. Lots happened to be sure, but the big story? Iraq elected a permanent government with little violence.

Even the Sunnis turned out. But here's an odd twist as reported in the NYT/IHT article:

The insurgents not only failed to stop the election, but it appeared also that they did not really try.

One can only hope that the terrorists both foreign and domestic are getting the picture that the people of Iraq want to be free from oppression. And why shouldn't they? They have suffered incredibly over the last 30 years.

But it hasn't taken the left long to start doing everything within their power to minimize the importance of this amazing event. Are we really surprised? Take a look at the op-ed piece by Molly Ivins of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram picked up and printed in the Salt Lake Tribune.

AUSTIN, Texas - As one on the liberal side of the chorus of moaners about the decline of civility in politics, I feel a certain responsibility when earnest, spaniel-eyed conservatives like David Brooks peer at us hopefully and say, ''Well, yes, there was certainly a lot of misinformation about WMD before the war in Iraq, but . . . you don't think they, he, actually lied, do you?''

Draw I deep the breath of patience. I factor in the long and awful history of politics and truth, add the immutable nature of pols - fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly - and compare Tonkin Gulf, Watergate and Iran-Contra with the piddly Curveball and Niger uranium. I prepare to respond like a reasonable person - ''Of course not actually lie, per se, in the strict sense'' - and then I listen to another speech about Iraq by either the president or the vice president and find myself screaming, ''Dammit, when will they quit lying?''

Good golly, Miss Molly. Does it make your blood boil that much to think that Iraqi elections were successful? Does it make you so inwardly, raging mad that you have to keep beating a dead horse, in the desperate hopes that it will somehow miraculously come back to life? Will you self-detonate over it?

Lie, lying, lied, did lie, lies, will lie, does lie. Lie, lie, lie.

When will it ever end?

They say "Bush lied" over and over again, so many times, almost chanting it like a starry-eyed cult member. Then, they and others that hear it, start to believe it. It is a brainwashing technique commonly used by Hare Krishnas, Moonies, and others that use mind control as a means of maintaining membership.

And dear Molly, is living proof.

But wait, what's this? Nancy Pelosi is now not advocating a unified Democratic position on Iraq? Well, that is what the Washington Post is now reporting.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday that Democrats should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within the caucus are a source of strength for the party.

Pelosi said Democrats will produce an issue agenda for the 2006 elections but it will not include a position on Iraq. There is consensus within the party that President Bush has mismanaged the war and that a new course is needed, but House Democrats should be free to take individual positions, she said.

I wonder what Molly is going to say about this? And for that matter how about Hollywood, academia, and usual host of suspects? I bet Dean will have plenty to say.

What do I say?

I think Nancy sees an up and coming battle that will pit the "anti-war crowd" against the "finish the job group", coming up in the primaries of the 2006 midterms. And she wants to start sweeping the issue under the rug now, to minimize the fact that she and the Dems have once again been on the wrong side of history.

Iraq has elected a government and there are no ifs, ands, or buts. It has happened and it's high time the leftists deal with it. Pretending it's not an issue when they have spent almost the entire time of this war, making it issue #1, is not going to fly with the American people.

It's damn sure not going to settle well with the hard left, Miss Molly included.