Compare and Contrast
Over at Real Clear Politics, Pat Buchanan compares the President's remarks on Iraq:

In his "Plan for Victory" address to the Naval Academy, the president declared: "Against this adversary, there is only one effective response: We will never back down. We will never give in. And we will never accept anything less than complete victory."

With the remarks made by Howard Dean and John Kerry:

To which Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean instantly retorted, "The idea that we're going to win this war ... is just plain wrong."

How's that for a Churchillian, "we-shall-fight-on-the-beaches ... we-shall-never-surrender" moment?

Sunday on "Face the Nation," John Kerry said to Bob Schieffer: "There is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking ... the historical customs, religious customs. ... Iraqis should be doing that."

After the laughter died, Democratic spin-doctors were out in force explaining that Kerry was not calling U.S. troops terrorists.

Make no mistake, paleo-Conservative Buchanan is pessimistic on Iraq and believes a "Tet moment" is coming for the President, but he is dead on about the Democratic criticism.
- posted by Base10 @ 9:06 AM