Proof that Dems are invested in defeat in Iraq!

I've been saying it for a long time.

And now HotAir has the link to the video of Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) being interviewed for the Washington Post Online and he admits that good news from Iraq in regards to the success of the "surge" would be "a real big problem for us". LOCATED HERE. Click the second video down on the right side and listen at about 3:20 into it. (After they force you to watch a frikkin' commercial ad).

That's correct. Good news in Iraq is bad news for Democrats. The Dems have so totally convinced themselves of our absolute failure in the Iraq war that they have no "plan B" if there is success there. Their political futures are based completely on a lost cause in Iraq. If the surge continues to work, the Dems lose 2008 and whatever cred they have tried to build with the "war is lost" drumbeat.

A successful 'surge' makes it difficult to make the case for abandoning Iraq, and except for the Far Left most Americans' support for getting out of Iraq has been based on the assessment that we are losing there..an effort eagerly supported by the Left's Main Stream Media accomplices by showing nothing but carnage and bad news from Iraq 24/7.

If the surge seems to be working, Americans' calls for withdrawal will diminish and Dem leaders know it... which is why they tried desperately to get a vote on withdrawal in July.

The Dems have painted the war in Iraq as being Bush's war alone and their hatred for him has fueled their irrational behavior. Their portrayal of a defeat in Iraq as a personal defeat for Bush wll backfire with any good news about the surge. Pelosi says she can't "concede there are positive things to point to" in Iraq. That's because it means she has been wrong on the war and admitting it is in direct conflict with her political ambition. Reid says a bloodbath in the wake of an American withdrawal is "hypothetical" yet he points to the real violence in Iraq every day.

How can the Dems base their entire philosophy on defeat and failure and ignore the progress our forces have made?