Encouraging our enemies to attack our troops – then and now

The big flap about forged documents purporting to show a Nigerien sale of uranium to Iraq, and the claims that President Bush wrongly relied on them to make the case against Saddam Hussein in his State of the Union Speech, has served only to diminish President Bush and his wartime leadership — the desired effect for most of those partisan critics who bear principal responsibility for promoting and sustaining the frenzy over what was, actually, an accurate and illuminating item in a damning bill-of-particulars.

Bush’s partisan critics who want to replace him unwittingly may have generated a more dangerous effect.

They could well be reinforcing the hopes of Saddam Hussein and his loyalists that their strategy of bleeding US forces in Iraq will compound Bush’s domestic political problems, possibly precipitating another disastrous American retreat under fire. Just like Senator John Kerry helped do when he threw away his combat medals and joined the Hanoi solidarity movement during the Vietnam War. Now he’s calling his wartime president a liar.

At best, more anti-American Iraqis may be induced to believe that they should hedge their bets by resisting our troops, if not in murderous attacks against them.

BREAKING NEWS: 101st Airborne takes out Saddam Hussein’s bloodthirsty sons Uday and Qusay – bodies positively identified, according to reports.