another straw man from a Republican

This Republican is pretty extreme, so I don't think I should use him to speak about all Republicans. David Horowitz does speak for many, though, and he has enough big Republican money behind him to get some attention. Here's his latest straw man argument about Democrats:

if only America left Iraq and focused on killing Osama bin Laden, the Islamic jihad would be over.

Of course he can't actually quote any real Democrat saying something so simplistic. I can quote him, here, confusing Sunni jihadists and Shi'ite jihadists (notice that they are killing each other in Iraq, with our troops in the middle) as "the Islamic jihad" in his blog entry.

Given Horowitz's obvious intelligence, and history of Communism, he's probably making a deliberate misrepresentation of what Democrats have been saying. Still, it's nice to know that we're having some effect, and that they can't just accuse us of supporting the terrorists anymore. Well, some Republicans will always do that, but Horowitz seems to want to be believed in his lies.

This lie is disturbing, though:

Those who attack us from within without offering a constructive policy for winning are helping the enemy. They are not criticizing the Administration; they are sabotaging the war. I have yet to come across a single Democrat who has a plan to prosecute the war more effectively.

If he hasn't "come across a single Democrat who has a plan to prosecute the war more effectively" it's his own fault for not visiting Wesley Clark's "Securing America" site. He's more likely lying again, and setting up Democrats to become inmates of the American Gulag his Republican friends are building.