What is the definition of Irony? How about this; Democrats in the Senate vote in a nearly united fashion to give President Bush the authorization to go to war against Iraq, then, soon after, begin a litany of anti-war rhetoric.

Okay, that sounds more like contradiction than irony, a norm for Dems, but I’m not quite finished yet. What if that anti-war rhetoric bolstered Saddam Hussein’s courage to stand up against President Bush, thus assuring the inevitability of war? Would you consider that Ironic? Even better is when, after stabbing the President in the back, politically speaking, the Minority Leader of the Senate, Tom Daschle, comes forward to state that he is ‘’saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we’re now forced to war.”

I think we’ve hit a gold mine of irony here, if you ask me, but we’re not done yet. Months later, Dick Gephardt, the former Majority Leader of the House (who was demoted by the American people in 1994 to Minority Leader), then “borrows” Daschle’s line in desperation to try and reverse a downward trend in the polls as he attempts to win the Democratic primary by calling the President “a miserable failure.” But, lets keep mining, there’s even more gold in them thar hills.

After calling the President “a miserable failure” in two seperate debates with loud and uproarious applause from the angry, ugly left, he decides that it would be a grand idea to create a new web site, “amiserablefailure.com,” to further pander to the angry, ugly left. The mother lode to all of this shameful anti-Bush rhetoric is, of course, the fact that most Democrats fully understand that their anti-Bush, anti-war rhetoric has made the President’s job far more difficult and has likely cost the lives of American soldiers and civilians.

Even after the tragic events of 9/11, when Democrats lined up behind the President to support him as we prepared for the coming war on Terrorism, Democrats were just biding their time. They were, of course, waiting until we had reached a minimum safe distance from 9/11 before going back to old habits and launching relentless attacks against the President.

When it was time to act in Afghanistan, Democrats began their first major shift away from support of the President. While the rhetoric was still toned down at the time, many of them voiced their “concerns” over the way the campaign was being run in that country, until, of course, the Taliban completely collapsed and Al Qaeda was running for its life.

Iraq, however, became the primary vehicle for Democrats as they sought to hinder the President’s plans in the war on terror. It was here that the Neville Chamberlain liberals began to launch their anti-war rallies to support Saddam Hussein and to denounce “imperialist aggression” on the part of the United States. President Bush was demonized while a murderous dictator, one of the worst in modern times, was painted as the victim of our aggression. No wonder Hussein continued to openly defy UN sanctions and US warnings!
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