Disgrace(s) of the Week

It's a good thing that I don't write a regular column identifying the "Disgrace of the Week". There are just too many lately to choose from. The increasingly outrageous, left-wing, anti-war Democrat party is serving up example after example at a pace too fast to document well. Here are some recent candidates:

1. Let's start at the top:

Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee - who made this outrageous comment this week in a radio interview, while our troops are in harm's way on a war mission authorized by the President and the Congress:

"The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong,"

Unbelievable, that a chair of a major party would declare defeat and hoplessness less than 10 days from the major milestone that the troops have been fighting toward - the December 15th election in Iraq.

It goes without saying that he should resign. But I'll say it. He should resign. He has disgraced his party, and the rank and file of his party should call for his resignation.

2. Or maybe we should go with the man the Democrats thought should be President - Sen. John Kerry. A man who stumbles to a new position, all of them defeatist, on the war every day and who this week arrived at this disgraceful comment:

"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the – of – the historical customs, religious customs," Kerry said Sunday. "Whether you like it or not ... Iraqis should be doing that."

Excuse me? "...young American soldiers..." "...terrorizing kids and children...". Are you kidding me? Does he not understand how loaded the word "terrorizing" is in the current climate of the War on Terror? Of course he does, and he meant to use it. The man who made outrageous claims against our military in Vietnam is at it again. He can't help it. It's deep in his psyche to allege the most heinous behavior by our troops in the field. And a lot of you wanted him to lead our country?

John Kerry should, as well, resign. He has disgraced his party, and the rank and file of the Democrat party should call for his resignation.

3. How about the most under-reported outrage of the week. I'm talking about Ramsey Clark going to Baghdad to lead Sadaam Hussein's defense team in his war crimes trial.

Ramsey Clark, Democrat. Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States under the Democrat administration of President Lyndon Johnson. Ramsey Clark, anti-war protestor for 30 years and hero of the unhinged anti-war left. In Baghdad to defend the butcher and terror threat that we launched a war to depose.

Ramsey Clark cannot, of course, resign. Nobody elected him to anything. He should instead, be denied re-entry into the U.S. and/or tried for treason.


The shocking fact is that, in two of these three disgraceful acts, we're not talking about fringe players. Granted that Ramsey Clark falls into the Cindy Sheehan fringe left category. But Howard Dean and John Kerry are leaders of their party. The logical question is - how much more extreme and disgraceful are these leaders going to allow their hatred of George W. Bush to take them?