The leaders of the Democratic party are truly pathetic. Regardless of what happens this November, they need to be replaced.

Democratic lawmakers, responding to an intelligence report that found that the Iraq war has invigorated Islamic radicalism and worsened the global terrorist threat, said the assessment by American spy agencies demonstrated that the Bush administration needed to devise a new strategy for its handling of the war…

The intelligence estimate, an assessment by America’s 16 intelligence agencies, found that the war in Iraq, rather than stemming the growth of terrorism, had helped fuel its spread across the globe…

The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi of California, said in a statement that news reports about the intelligence estimate were “further proof that the war in Iraq is making it harder for America to fight and win the war on terror.”…

Her Senate Democratic counterpart, Harry Reid of Nevada, said that “no election-year White House P.R. campaign can hide this truth — it is crystal clear that America’s security demands we change course in Iraq.”

A new strategy? I should say so. And what would that strategy be? Bush seems to think that the global war on terror will be won or lost in Iraq. If we withdraw, the terrorists win. And once we leave, they will all come flooding over here to fight us in the streets of New York and Indianapolis.

But notice. It is the global terrorist threat that has worsened, not just the threat in Iraq. And what is it about the existence of the American occupation of Iraq that makes it impossible for a group of terrorists to come to the United States and blow up one of our buildings?

If one believes Bush’s formulation of the war on terror, we will have to stay in Iraq forever. A new strategy will not change that. But that is what leading Democrats are advocating. A new strategy will not change the body count of dead American soldiers and dead Iraqis. A new strategy will not change the fact that this blood, even if drawn because of sectarian violence, is blood that is and will remain on our hands.

The Democrats’ strategy is to talk about the war in as vague of terms as possible, to not propose something different, to just announce that we have to change course.

To just announce that we need a new strategy, that Bush needs to change course, is not an alternative that will stop the killing or stop the spread of global terrorists. Bush is responsible. But so are the Democrats. The blood is on their hands too. It cannot be washed off at this late date.

We need to withdraw now. That’s the “new strategy”.