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Off The Dean End.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Politics: Talk about timing. Just when Iraq's elections are bringing victory closer in the war on tyranny and terror, the Democrats are embracing a defeat strategy.
How else does one account for the fact that the party is about to choose Howard Dean, a candidate who couldn't get past the Iowa caucuses, as the man to lead it back to power? Dean doesn't have the party chairmanship sealed up, but he became the odds-on favorite to win after getting the support of state party leaders this week.
And what, other than a deep-seated defeatism, can explain the party's response to this week's good news from Iraq?
Harry Reid, the top Senate Democrat, reacted to the election by calling on President Bush to reveal an "exit strategy," as if getting out was all that Americans wanted.
As Reid knows full well, Bush already has a strategy -- to build a democratic Iraqi state capable of defending itself -- and is executing it. But Reid and other Democratic leaders simply cannot or will not give Bush credit for anything, especially for success in Iraq.
They seem to assume that bad news for Bush is good news for them, and good news for Bush must be denied or explained away.
This is the mind-set of the left-wing activists who seem increasingly to be setting the agenda for the whole party.
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