DNC: Missing On All Cylinders

The revamped official Dem National Committee blog may look a bit more professional than the old "Kick Ass" blog -- apparently renamed since they've the the recipient, not the deliverer, of ass-kickings lately -- but it's still braying loudly and dangerously stupid.

Here's their summary of what was wrong with the president's speech on Iraq yesterday evening:

Iraq is not where Osama is --As if the war is only about catching Osama. Besides, as Howdy the milblogger said,

80% of the captured combatants here are foreign. Most are Saudi. Go figure. Most of the 9-11 bombers are Saudi. ... Societies like Saudi Arabia breed dissenters and criminals....ultimately making bad neighbors. So, we fight here or on United States soil. See the connection now to 9-11? Why would they come to fight here? Hate brings them, hate brought them on 9-11.

Iraq was not responsible for 9/11 -- Ditto. This was the Big Talking Point for the Dems, headlining the obedient media's follow-up stories:

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi accused Bush of demonstrating a willingness "exploit the sacred ground of 9/11, knowing that there is no connection between 9/11 and the war in Iraq."

Besides, that point has been made scrupiously clear by the administration since Day One. Afghanistan was about 9/11, Iraq is about preventing the next 9/11.

Terrorists continue to train, violence and intensity continue to increase -- And why do they do so? Because they know that with violence, the DNC will become their ally in dispiriting America,which is the only way we can lose this war. If terrorists can learn from history (the US in Vietnam) why can't the Dems ... especially since they're so fixated on that war? Anyway, if we were to leave Iraq tomorrow, do you suppose the training of sociopathic jihadists would stop? Isn't it better to kill them before they're trained?

The rest is just Bush-bashing. No alternative policies are moved forward. And the words "freedom," "democracy" and "Iraqi vote" appear nowhere in the post.

Which I guess goes to show you can fool 47% of the people most of the time.