Russian dictator and Demofiend fellow traveler Vladimir Putin yesterday weighed in on Iraq, whose invasion he opposed from the git-go, saying that a pullout schedule should be drawn up so there can be national reconciliation in that Middle Eastern country.

Now, even I will grant that this argument has some merit.  To wit, either the Iraqi government can get its act together and handle its own affairs or it can’t.  Therefore, it’s sink-or-swim time for Iraq.  This is a valid argument.  I don’t necessarily agree with it, not toally anyway, but that’s not the issue.

The issue is American power, and neither the Demofiends in Congress nor Putin in Russia wants America to have any power or to use any power on the world stage.  They both favor in a huge way the castration of American power. 

That’s the scary part, and it’s also the same reason that Putin should just shut up and try to implement democracy back home before he talks about it around the world.  His viewpoint has no legitimacy.

As for the Demofiends, they’ve always preferred caving into dictators and communistic world schemes than challenging them.  It may be because the Demofiends and dictators have a lot in common.  Now, what a discerning thought.