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Some have already tipped their hand. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., in a remarkable Wall Street Journal column the day before the president's "Victory" speech, wrote, "America cannot abandon the war between 27 million Iraqis and 10,000 terrorists." Unlike most of the president's critics, Sen. Lieberman has made four trips to Iraq in the last 17 months.

Unfortunately, others who know less are talking more -- and getting greater visibility. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., proclaimed, "The goal of our military should be to establish a legitimate functioning government, not to dictate it." But then the heavyweight champion of the oppressed added, "If we want the new Iraqi government to succeed, we need to give Iraq back to the Iraqi people. We need to let Iraq make its own political decisions, without American interference." What does that mean? Quick, Senator Ted -- do you support the president's strategy? If not -- how would you do it?

Terry McAullife, former Chairman of the Democrat National Committee doesn't even want to talk about the speech, the strategy or the document. He told FOX News that what really matters is that, "last month 79 U.S. Senators voted 'no confidence' in the Bush administration's Iraq policy." Here's an idea, MacAullife: Join me in Iraq for the elections -- and judge for yourself whether these brave young Americans have confidence in what they are doing to help bring democracy and stability to Iraq.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has no confidence either. The ink was still drying on the White House "Victory" report when she came forward to endorse "withdrawing American troops from Iraq." Though no reporters asked whether Pelosi had read the report or shares the administration's views on "The Consequences of Failure," she has at least gone on record as a "surrenderist."

As usual, it's more difficult to figure out where failed presidential candidate John Kerry, D-Mass., stands. "This debate is not about an artificial date for withdrawal ... it's about an estimated timetable for success, which will permit the withdrawal of our troops." What?

The opposition "rebuttals" to the president's speech and "Victory" report imply that they were written without the benefit of listening to or reading either. Between now and the Dec. 15, terrorists in Iraq will do everything in their power to disrupt the balloting. The opposition here at home would do well to recall the paraphrase of a slogan from their last campaign: "It's the election -- stupid."

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