In between victory laps around D.C., the incoming Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid may want to release a joint statement that American will is not "teetering" in Iraq and that al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq will be defeated. Our enemies haven't gone away. From Reuters:
An alliance of Sunni insurgents headed by the Iraq branch of Al-Qaeda announced the creation of an independent Islamic emirate in Iraq in a video posted on the Internet on October 15 after parliament in Baghdad approved a federal constitution for the war-ravaged country. In Friday's message, [al Qaeda's top terrorist in Iraq] Muhajer lashed out at US President George W. Bush, describing him as "stupid," and said US forces occupying Iraq were preparing to cut and run. "The enemy is now teetering under the blows of the mujahedeen ... and preparing to pack up and flee," he said.
Sure doesn't sound like the terrorists will leave Iraq if we make a speedy withdrawal, as Rep. Pelosi suggested on 60 Minutes three weeks ago.
STAHL: Do you not think that the war in Iraq now, today, is the war on terror? Rep. PELOSI: No. The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan. That is what... STAHL: But you don't think that the terrorists have moved into Iraq now? Rep. PELOSI: (Unintelligible). They have. STAHL: Well... Rep. PELOSI: The jihadists in Iraq. But that doesn't mean we stay there. That means--they'll stay there as long as we're there. They're there because we're there.