Can Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and other leading Democrats be doing more for the cause of al Qa'eda in Iraq (AQI) than the legions of dedicated, vicious fanatics themselves? Clearly al Qa'eda has a modus operandi that has been displayed over and over. When they attack a Western target they forewarn and strike three times (three is to make a mockery of the Christian Trinity). When they take on conventional armies, they rarely flee and even on those occasions when they had been scattered,  these radicals always confronted them soon after. So depite the logical retreat most would choose when severely overwhelmed, Osama and his followers instead  gravitate toward the concentration of superior numbered enemies with fragmented, small groups who accumulate from the Islamic world at various paces. Muslim men leave their homeland and get to the theater of combat any which way can and seek out the resistance leaders to join their ranks.  This is important: The recent history has shown that success in fighting the 'Western infidels' brings about many more volunteers as opposed to these same comrades learning of consecutive and decisive defeats. Propaganda is a powerful tool in every corner of civilization, Islamic culture no exception.

       Let us look at what happened in Bosnia, Chechnya, Somalia, Lebanon and Afghanistan. These wars are the barometer to better understand and predict an otherwise arbitrary enemy. In each of these wars al Qa'eda flocked to the battle. Even if someone condemned the invasion of Hussein's Iraq, the war has changed before our eyes and we are now engaged in a completely different war with very different ramifications. The goal to end Saddam Hussein's regime was to replace him with a moderate government to stabilize an otherwise unpredictable, and arguably, dangerous nation. That war is over. Saddam and his son's are dead. A government is in place (thanks to America & Great Britain) that now has Sharia Law and we still wait to see how moderate they will or will not be. Keep in mind, if America withdraws now it is not Saddam who will walk around Baghdad with a head the size of a Bradley armored vehicle. Instead if we (Western civilization represented only by the brave and wise) withdraw from Iraq now we are assured of several things.

1) We are assured that each and every ally we have within the new Iraqi government will be slaughtered along with their families if they stay after we leave.

2) We will have helped Osama bin Laden to prove to the tens of millions of prospective Muslim militants that the time is now for Islamic militants to once and for all destroy Israel, the United States, Christian Europe and bring the rest of the world to its knees and submit to Allah.
 
3) If al Qa'eda and the radicals who side with them can display another superpower on their wall (The Soviet Union in 1981) then they will see much more co-operation from Islamic states to harbor and sponsor them as they take to the offensive in the West.





Even before the Iraq invasion took place in March 2003 by American allied forces, Osama promised his insurgency would be there

       " We also underline the importance of dragging the enemy forces into a protracted, exhausting, close combat, making the most of camouflaged defense positions in plains, farms, hills, and cities. What the enemy fears most is urban and street warfare, in which heavy and costly human losses can be expected. Further, we emphasize the importance of martyrdom operations, which have inflicted unprecedented harm on America and Israel, thanks to God Almighty." - Osama bin Laden February 2003

       Even post invasion, al Qa'eda never ceased to realize the importance of the Iraq theater of combat.

" I now address my speech to the whole of the Islamic nation: Listen and understand. The issue is big and the misfortune is momentous. The most important and serious issue today for the whole world is this Third World War, which the Crusader-Zionist coalition began against the Islamic nation. It is raging in the land of the two rivers. The world's millstone and pillar is in Baghdad, the capital of the caliphate. The whole world is watching this war and the two adversaries; the Islamic nation, on the one hand, and the United States and its allies on the other. It is either victory and glory or misery and humiliation. The nation today has a very rare opportunity to come out of the subservience and enslavement to the West and to smash the chains with which the Crusaders have fettered it." - Osama bin Laden December 2004

" I want to be the first to congratulate you for what God has blessed you with in terms of fighting battle in the heart of the Islamic world, which was formerly the field for major battles in Islam's history, and what is now the place for the greatest battle of Islam in this era."- Ayman al Zawahiri in a letter to AQI leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi 2005

Paul Bremer, the former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, explains in My Year in Iraq that a Mukhabarat (Iraqi intelligence) document he had seen "showed that Saddam had made plans for an insurgency." Bremer elaborates: "And the insurgency had forces to draw on from among several thousand hardened Baathists in two northern Republican Guard divisions that had joined forces with foreign jihadis." Iraqi intelligence documents similar to the one Bremer describes were released online by the U.S. government last year. One, from the top military command, contains the order to "utilize Arab suicide bombers" against the Americans. It also orders Saddam's agents to provide these terrorists with munitions, religious instruction, shelter, and training at the outset of the war. Instead of fighting a purely conventional war, Saddam clearly intended to confront American forces with an insurgency made up of foreign and homegrown terrorists, notably suicide bombers - Thomas Joscelyn of The Weekly Standard


       It is clear to President Bush and to the Pentagon that al Qa'eda and the war on terror is centralized in Iraq. Some don't like the way we chose the battlefield but that is an argument for another day. The enemy who slaughtered thousands of Americans in front of three billion viewers on live TV on September 11, 2001 in our two most important cities are today meeting us to wage war right in Iraq and the Democrats are demanding we lose. 


   " "Now it's time to say the redeployment should start in 90 days or the Congress will revoke authorization for this war," - Democrat New York Senator Hillary Clinton www.hillaryclinton.com  February 2007

Hear Democrat Illinois Senator Barack Obama in his own words in an interview with MoveOn.org: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRAfhBzdBVo

"Our troops have become the enemy. We need to change direction in Iraq," said Democrat Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania

"After nearly five years of a failed policy in Iraq, we have a duty not just to voice our opposition but to vote today to end the war."- House Speaker Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California 7/12/07

"This war is a serious situation. It involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country, so we should take everything seriously. We find ourselves in a very deep hole and we need to find a way to dig out of it." Asked whether he considers it a worse blunder than Vietnam, Reid responded, "Yes."-Senator Harry Reid, Democrat Nevada, on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.