"Completely Disconnected from Reality"

The delusions:

House Minority Leader "Crazy Nancy" Pelosi:

Each passing day confirms the Iraq War has been a grotesque mistake. We are here today considering a rule for a defense appropriation bill that will provide another 45 billion dollars for that war. In addition to the hundreds of billions already appropriated and the end is not in sight. This money has been spent in Iraq without question by Congress, without accountability from the Administration and without success.

RINO Senator Chuck Hagel:

"Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality," Hagel tells U.S. News [& World Report]. "It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq."

Senator Joe "Hairplugs" Biden:

Senator Biden's Pessimistic Predictions On The Transfer Of Sovereignty:

*Senator Biden Said Iraq Would Need A Referee After Ambassador Bremer Left Iraq. "(W)ho's going to be the referee when Bremer leaves?" (CBS' The Early Show, 4/7/04)

*Senator Biden Said There Would Be "Absolute Chaos" From The Time Ambassador Bremer Departed Till The Iraqi Elections. "Does anyone think there's not going to be absolute chaos from June 30th until January 1st or 31st when we have general elections?" (CBS' The Early Show, 4/7/04)

Senator Biden's previous pessimistic predictions on the Iraqi elections, most of which turned out to be nonsense:

*Senator Joe Biden (D-DE): "The Elections Are Going To Be Much Messier. We Are Left With A Bad Choice In Holding Elections And A Worse Choice Of Not Holding It." (CNN's Late Edition, 1/9/05)

*Biden: "And I Think There's Going To Be The Whole Question Of Whether Or Not The Sunnis Participate, Whether There's Any Legitimacy In The Process If They Don't, Et Cetera." (CNN's Late Edition, 1/9/05)

*Biden Said Of The Iraqi Elections: "It's Going To Be Ugly." (PBS' Charlie Rose Show, 1/5/05)

*Biden: "(Election) Success Is Still Possibility. But It Is Receding Rapidly. It's Being Made Much More Difficult." (ABC's This Week, 12/5/04)

*"(D)emocrat Joe Biden Of Delaware, Said Postponing The Election Without A Guarantee Of Sunni Participation Later On Would Just Add More Trouble To Iraq's Already Difficult Road." (NPR's All Things Considered, 12/2/04)

*"Biden Believes Iraqi Elections Scheduled For January Should Be Delayed To Stabilize The Country And Gain Wider Support For The Vote From Sunnis. The Situation Is Still Salvageable, He Said." (Sean O'Sullivan, "Biden Has New Hope For Peace In Mideast," The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal, 12/2/04)

*"Sunnis Must Still Be Involved Politically, Democratic Senator Joe Biden Said. 'They're Going To Have To See More Sunnis Brought Into The Constitution Writing If There's Going To Be Any Legitimacy At The End Of The Day, And I Think We'll See That.'" (Michael McDonough, "British And U.S. Officials Congratulate Iraqi Victors; Turkey Complains Results Skewed," The Associated Press, 2/13/05)

The reality:

President Bush: "The World Saw Long Lines Of Iraqi Men And Women Voting In A Free And Fair Election For The First Time In Their Lives." (Nedra Pickler, "Bush Congratulates Iraqi Candidates In Final Election Results," The Associated Press, 2/14/05)

75% Of Iraqis Support The Government, Up 10% From Last Year. (Adriana Lins De Albuquerque, Michael O'Hanlon and Amy Unikewicz, Op-Ed, "The State Of Iraq: An Update" The New York Times, 6/3/05)

*"At The End Of 2004...3,100 Schools Have Been Renovated, 364 Schools Are Currently Under Rehabilitation, 263 New Schools Are Under Construction And 38 New Schools Have Been Built." (Department Of Defense Website, "Iraq Year In Review 2004 Fact Sheet," http://www.defendamerica.mil http://www.defendamerica.mil/downloads/ MNFI-Year-in-Review_2004-Fact-Sheets.pdf, Accessed 6/2/05)

*Over 100,000 More Iraqis Are Using The Internet Than Last Year. (Adriana Lins De Albuquerque, Michael O'Hanlon and Amy Unikewicz , Op-Ed, "The State Of Iraq: An Update" The New York Times, 6/3/05)

*There Are More TV Stations Than Last Year And 20 More Independent Newspapers And Magazines. (Adriana Lins De Albuquerque, Michael O'Hanlon and Amy Unikewicz, Op-Ed, "The State Of Iraq: An Update" The New York Times,
6/3/05)

*Over 50,000 More Trained Iraqi Security Forces. (Adriana Lins De Albuquerque, Michael O'Hanlon and Amy Unikewicz, Op-Ed, "The State Of Iraq: An Update" The New York Times, 6/3/05)

*Sunnis who are against the "occupation" are in some cases fighting against foreign jihadists.

*Citizens of Qaim requested help to rid it of foreign terrorists.

*Tribal sheiks of Tel Afar demanded a Falluja-style assault to rid it of foreign terrorists.

*The terrorists in Mosul may have overstayed their welcome.

*The drafting of the new Iraqi Constitution appears to be well on its way.

*EU leaders, though impotent, expressed support for the American effort in Iraq.

*Even the hapless anti-American Kofi Annan claims there's progress in Iraq.

Karl Zinsmeister is even blunter - he says the Iraqi campaign is over, and we've won:

Your editor returned to Iraq in April and May of 2005 for another embedded period of reporting. I could immediately see improvements compared to my earlier extended tours during 2003 and 2004. The Iraqi security forces, for example, are vastly more competent, and in some cases quite inspiring. Baghdad is now choked with traffic. Cell phones have spread like wildfire. And satellite TV dishes sprout from even the most humble mud hovels in the countryside.

Many of the soldiers I spent time with during this spring had also been deployed during the initial invasion back in 2003. Almost universally they talked to me about how much change they could see in the country. They noted progress in the attitudes of the people, in the condition of important infrastructure, in security....

What the establishment media covering Iraq have utterly failed to make clear today is this central reality: With the exception of periodic flare-ups in isolated corners, our struggle in Iraq as warfare is over. Egregious acts of terror will continue—in Iraq as in many other parts of the world. But there is now no chance whatever of the U.S. losing this critical guerilla war. [emphasis added]

Unless, that is, we let ourselves get stampeded and/or bamboozled by media whores like Hagel, defeatists like Biden, and seditionists like Pelosi.

Certainly the President won't - why else does the other side want so desperately to impeach him?

No, for as infuriating as the "cut & run" coward crowd is, they're not Dubya's worst enemy via-a-vie Iraq. That honor just may belong to...himself.