5th anniversry of Iraq war

The radical left in America, certainly including Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, seized on today's 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq to call for surrender and immediate pullout, blasting President Bush and John McCain for supporting it.

The one truth that cannot be ignored, and they have no answer for, is that America has had no terrorist attacks or incidents on its soil since 9/11. Period. End of debate.

It is true that the Bush administration was not prepared for either how quickly it would topple Saddahm Hussein or for keeping the peace in Iraq afterward. Mistakes were made, but rather than cut tail and run, Bush has stuck it out. With the surge strategy, the war is being won. It is messy and far from complete, but it has largely removed Iraq as a major presidential campaign issue.

The anti-war types are whistling past the grave, so to speak, as the debate has largely passed them by.

Obama is using the war today to try and deflect public and media attention away from his embarassing pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and his 20 years as a parishoner of the Trinity Church of Christ. This is the first crisis of his campaign, and a big one at that. Public war rage has so subsided that it doesn't appear to be covering up his Wright problem, no matter how hard Obama tries.

As one wag put, Obama has put a whole new spin on the old "sleeping in church" story.