Angry Nick buys the lies

Today our good friend, Nick Coleman, the Red Star's most obvious affirmative action hire, breaks away from the leftist screed-blogs just long enough to write an article titled "Truth, war's first casualty, also needs our support".

In monkey-see, monkey-do fashion, tricky Nick parrots the wild-eyed leftist bloggers, such as Kos or Commie Cause, and asserts that the Iraq war is based on lies, lies, lies. The left has a fascinating inability to distinguish between reliance on faulty intelligence (which most major governments agreed with, including France, by the way), and lies.

The well-meaning patrons who gathered to ask our support for the troops did so on the same day that 14 Americans burned to death in a 25-ton vehicle overturned by a hidden bomb, and at a time when the families of 2,000 Minnesota National Guard member are preparing to see their loved ones sent off to a war that was based on lies and has no defined utcome.

Nick, we hate to embarrass you in front of the blogosphere, but even your own paper has published the "defined outcome". It is when the Iraqi's are self-reliant, and when a democratic government has been established. It is when America's fighting men are no longer needed in Iraq. That's the defined outcome.

Sorry, Nick, we're not going to say "well, we'll pull out May 1, 2006". Surely even you understand that the terrorists will wait until May 2, 2006 and let it loose. Isn't it obvious?

This makes Nick want to cut and run:

As of Thursday, at least 1,826 Americans had died in Iraq, 1,771 of them since the alleged end of major combat operations on May 1, 2003. Of the dead, more than 400 belonged to National Guard or reserve units made up of citizen-soldiers who, in the view of many, should not be in Iraq. Our state has about 1,000 soldiers in Iraq now, and that number shortly is due to double when the National Guard makes its largest overseas deployment since World War II.

The same facts that make Nick quiver make a real man want to turn up the heat. Instead of running away, let's get mad and turn it up several notches, and rain hellfire upon the terrorists so we can get the job done and go home.

The adminstration rightly should take some hits for mistakes made in war management. But the "root cause" of problems we're facing is that the leftist softies like Nick Coleman force Americans to fight with one hand tied behind our back. Were we able to unleash the full power of our resources (and not just the military), this thing might have been over by now.