Leftist leadership is a loser, and other news

The Senate held a moment of silence today for our slain soldiers in Iraq. Then Democrats "spoke on the Senate floor to memorialize the dead and criticize the president's Iraq policies." Funny how those two go together.

"Our armed forces are serving ably in Iraq under enormously difficult circumstances, and the policy of our government must be worthy of their sacrifice. Unfortunately, it is not, and the American people know it," said Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts.

Added Dick Durbin of Illinois: "Words of tribute are in order to honor the sacrifice of these brave men and women and their loved ones. But words are not enough. We owe them leadership and a clear strategy to bring our troops home with their mission truly accomplished."

Durbin's leadership includes equating Gitmo to the brutality of fascist regimes. I'll take Bush's flawed leadership over the outright damaging leadership of the Democrats any day.

Outside the White House, peace activist Cindy Sheehan--

Not that I expect anything better from the AP, but "peace activist" is about the last adjective I'd use to describe Sheehan. "Rabid anti-American," "pro-our enemies," and "activist for the extreme far left" are closer to the mark.

whose 24-year old son, Casey, died in Iraq last year _ said she and others plan to "die symbolically" there over the next four days to protest U.S. involvement in Iraq.

Yawwwnnnn.

In other news, Iraq's constitution was solidly ratified, and officials declared the voting fair:

Of 18 provinces, only two recorded “No” votes greater than two thirds, one province short of a veto.

Turnout in the Oct. 15 referendum was 63 percent, commission officials had said previously.
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Although a big “Yes” vote was expected across the country, given support for the charter from the Shi’ite majority and their Kurdish allies in government, the outcome was in doubt to the last because of the risk of a regional blocking vote in provinces with big Sunni Arab populations.

Two provinces had already been confirmed to have voted heavily “No” — 96 percent in the insurgent stronghold of Anbar and 81 percent in Saddam Hussein’s home region of Salahaddin.But the final results announced on Tuesday showed that a third, “swing”, province of Nineveh, had voted by only 55 percent against the constitution, short of a two-thirds majority. No other province returned a “No” majority.

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File that under "triumph for the Iraqi people and George Bush."