It hasn’t taken long, Democrats for defeat have already said Iraq is lost, it’s a failure and they are pleading their pathetic case.

Democrats are trying to undermine U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus’ credibility before he delivers a report on the Iraq war next week, saying the general is a mouthpiece for President Bush and his findings can’t be trusted.

“The Bush report?” Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin said when asked about the upcoming report from Gen. Petraeus, U.S. commander in Iraq.

“We know what is going to be in it. It’s clear. I think the president’s trip over to Iraq makes it very obvious,” the Illinois Democrat said. “I expect the Bush report to say, ‘The surge is working. Let’s have more of the same.’ “

Of course Sen. Durbin has previously proclaimed U.S. troops at Guantanamo Bay are like Nazi’s.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said Gen. Petraeus’ report was potentially compromised by the White House’s involvement in drafting it.

“If the same people who were so wrong about this war from the start are writing substantial portions of this report, that raises credibility questions,” he said.

In a speech on the Senate floor, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), told the U. S. Marines in Anbar province that they’ve failed and are a part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Let me be clear. The violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al-Qaeda said to these tribes, “We have to fight al-Qaeda ourselves.”

It wasn’t that the surge brought peace here, it was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here and that was because there was no one else there protecting.

Schumer leads the Democrat All-Stars in stupidity bordering on treason, publicly denouncing the U.S. Military at war that they have failed. Let’s examine:

In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one’s nation. A person who betrays the nation of their citizenship and/or reneges on an oath of loyalty and in some way willfully cooperates with an enemy, is considered to be a traitor. Oran’s Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: “…[a]…citizen’s actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation].” In many nations, it is also often considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government, even if no foreign country is aided or involved by such an endeavour.

In Shakespeare’s play King Lear (c. 1600), when the King learns that his daughter Regan has publicly dishonoured him, he says They could not, would not do ‘t; ’tis worse than murder: a conventional attitude at that time.

In Dante’s Inferno, the lowest circles of Hell are reserved for traitors; Judas, who betrayed Jesus in Christian theology, suffers the worst torments of all. His treachery is in fact so notorious that his name has long been synonymous with traitor, a fate he shares with Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Pétain, Quisling, Alcibiades of Athens, and Ephialtes, who betrayed the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.

Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich, on a Mideast visit that included a stop in Syria, said the country lambasted by the Bush Administration deserves credit for taking in more than a million Iraqi refugees. 

“I feel the United States is engaging in an illegal occupation … I don’t want to bless that occupation with my presence,” he said in an interview in Lebanon, after visiting Syria. “I will not do it.”

Kucinich, a strong anti-war opponent who trails far in the US presidential polls, also said he won’t visit Iraq on his trip to the region because he considers the US military deployment there illegal.

“What most people are not aware of is that Syria has taken in more than 1.5 million Iraqi refugees,” Kucinich said. “The Syrian government has actually shown a lot of compassion in keeping its doors open, and being a host for so many refugees.”

What Mr. Kucinich is not aware of is Syria is on a list of terrorist supporting governments and by denouncing the Bush administration he is no better than Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaeda. 

And now we can add Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Dennis Kucinich and their ilk to the list. Indeed!

Source: Wikipedia, Jerusalem Post. See Schumer speech here.