The Truth in Iraq

One Democrat after another, during the Iraq war resolution debate on the house floor today, informed C-Span viewers that America is losing the war in Iraq. Some of them insisting emphatically that things had gotten so bad that U.S. forces should be withdrawn immediately.

“'Stay the course' is not a strategy, it's a slogan,” answered House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi as she called for a new direction in a war she labeled “a grotesque mistake.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat who voted against the measure, said the resolution was an ``affirmation of the president's failed policy in Iraq.''

John Murtha, D-Pa.: “It's not a matter of stay the course. It's a matter of change direction.”

The question is, who are we to believe? Democrats angling for a majority control of Congress in November, or al-Zarqawi’s documents clearly stating that the insurgency had become ineffective due to the actions of American forces in Iraq. If the authenticity of these documents holds up to scrutiny, I’ll choose al-Zarqawi's account of the state of the war in Iraq as the more likely one. After all, what possible motivation could he have had to understate the effectiveness of insurgent operations in memos to his own al-Quaeda underlings?