Iraqi interim president says Ted Kennedy's full of it

If sanity had anything to do with Dem intransigence, a pronouncement like this one would settle the question for everybody:

Iraq's interim president said Tuesday it would be "complete nonsense" to ask U.S. and other foreign troops to leave Iraq at this point but some of the 170,000 soldiers could be leaving Iraq by the end of the year.

Ghazi al-Yawer, who had been a strong critic of some aspects of the U.S. military operation in Iraq, said foreign troops should leave only after Iraq's security forces are built up, the security situation has improved and some pockets of terrorists are eliminated.

"It's only complete nonsense to ask the troops to leave in this chaos and this vacuum of power," al-Yawer told reporters.

And yet Dems seem maniacally determined to rub everybody's nose in the fact that sanity has nothing to do with it:

In a pre-State of the Union challenge to President Bush, Senate [Minority] Leader Harry Reid intends to call Monday for the Administration to outline an exit strategy for Iraq. ...

Thus breathing desperately needed life into the "insurgency."

"The President needs to spell out a real and understandable plan for the unfinished work ahead: defeat the growing insurgency, rebuild Iraq, increase political participation by all parties, especially moderates, and increase international involvement," Reid will say, according to his prepared remarks.

Why, thank you, President Reid.

The "insurgency" is shrinking, not "growing." Iraq HAS been "rebuilt," and as to "increasing political participation, HELLO! Did John Kerry approve Dirty Harry's message?

These are the words of a man who has deluded himself that he's still relevant to the world he thinks he rules. Which I suppose is easy to do when you're not responsible for anything.

Wanna know how bad a case of the smugs Reid has? Check this out:

Democrats won't try to filibuster Alberto Gonzales' nomination to be attorney general but will hold extensive debates in the Senate over his role in developing the Bush Administration's policies on treating foreign detainees, the Senate's top Democrat said Tuesday.

"There will be an up-or-down vote," Senate [Minority] Leader Harry Reid of Nevada told reporters after the Democrats huddled together for their weekly planning session.

Generous bastard, huh? Like he has anything to say about it.

It is SO past time to put these strutting pricks in their place. The President can begin tonight with his State of the Union address.

And then: Paging Senator Frist...Senator Frist to the "nuclear" button, stat....