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This hysteria is for one reason. This represents a fear that the left is having that we will actually win this conflict. They have made themselves irrelevant. Notice how they progress...

1. Leading up to the Liberation of Afghanistan the really far left fretted but were largely irrelevant.

2. We invaded and the Taliban collapsed as suspected and up until we invaded Iraq the left began to slowly tear around the edges of Afghanistan saying how it was going to be another Vietnam.

3. Then the march to liberate Iraq begins and Afghanistan is largely forgotten.

4. The far left again is the lone hold out standing against the invasion of Iraq while a clear super majority of the US population supported it. Christopher Hitchens is one notable hold out from the left who supported the war and still supports it.

5. The initial invasion goes extremely well and the liberation proceeds as planned and Baghdad falls quickly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2930913.stm
Liberals are virtually silent with no cries of illegal war and such.

6. Slowly the left and the Democratic party feeling threatened begin latching onto each and every misstep they could find with the more radical among them saying nothing was going right in Iraq and that there was no plan though such a plan had been publicly stated and available from the beginning with most of the milestones accomplished on schedule including elections and a transfer of power to the Iraqi government. This began with outrage over looting and then down the line to AbuGrab and cries about Guantanamo.

7. They proceed to conduct a disinformation effort on the war in Iraq and then to the general war on terror and Afghanistan though some still use Afghanistan as “evidence” of their balance saying they supported that effort but that Iraq was an Illegal war and there were “No Wmds”. Michael Moore takes advantage of this seed and the Muslim/Arab conspiracy theories about 1st the Mossad and then the US blowing up the towers so they could invaded Iraq becomes a rallying cry for the left. Today over 60 percent of Democrats either believe or are open to the idea that President Bush knew about the 9-11 attacks in advance.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/22_believe_bush_knew_about_9_11_attacks_in_advance

5. Now they have progressed from falsely claiming a civil war to now claiming the war is lost. Many conservatives worn down from this no longer express that the war can be won even though most of Iraq is stable with more than 2 thirds of the population living pretty much normal lives. Things have been improving but the emphasis on death counts and the ignoring of the successes has presented a picture skewed to the leftist advantage.

6. Now that a backlash is beginning they will cry even louder and try to force as they did in Vietnam that we leave
and snatch defeat from the grasp of victory while millions suffer and die for the cowardice of a few.

Do not forget that the South Vietnamese were holding their own after most of our troops left but it was the Democrats in Congress who in a show of political power essentially defunded the aid to our allies and it was only after that that Vietnam fell and millions of those we had pledged to protect were left to the communists. The Democratic party should be tarred with Vietnam, the real story should be their scarlet letter but instead they use it as a rallying cry to call America again to defeat.