cowardice, political expedience, and the democrat party

Thanks for your attempt to bring some clarity to the points that I made in the post. If indeed, as you say, "nobody is [pro-defeat]", then having an understanding of the threat that is Islamic fascism is clearly vital to our survival.   In fact, I heard Democrat attorney Lanny Davis on one of the weekend shows make the statement that he "hopes that the Administration is successful."  Almost four years in-country, and that's the first time that I can recall a prominent Democrat actually saying that.  It's good to hear. As you know, it's not hard to find one example after another of statements which contradict Davis, including your own characterization of this as "a delusional construct of a failed administration." 

What honest, open and serious debate can do is make the general public aware of things that they would otherwise not have time to research for themselves. The comments regarding the ROE isn't about the Geneva Conventions. In fact, it refers to several articles that have been presented by soldiers in the field in various forums.  Here are a couple of milblog articles if indeed you would like to increase your understanding of the ROE.  I also included a Wikipedia link on the Geneva conventions, the first convention adopted in 1863, btw, 70 years or so before the Nazis.  Your statement about gas chambers is simply not serious.

Finally, I don't accept your premise that Iraq is a defeat.  In fact, the implementation of the new battle plan shows that defeat is not a given.  The actual battle plan itself has received very little coverage by the MSM. Consequently few details are well known by the public.  The military contributor on my blog went into some detail (after chastising me for calling it an 8-block clear-and-hold plan).  Here is a link, if you are so inclined, as well as an excellent summary on progress in al-Anbar, which, not surprisingly, has received no attention from the legacy media.  Kennedy and company's contribution to the war effort was described in my post by Laconic Blog this way:

And why have they done this? What proud motives have spurred them on?
[...] Simply this: their own political advantage. The Left has
concluded that the most important equation for them in this decade is
the Kennedy-Durbin Inverse Result Formula: good for Bush=bad for
Democrats/bad for Bush=good for Democrats. They have been so fixated on
damaging Bush that they are willing to countenance a defeat for their
own country. 

The irony behind this disgraceful conduct is that these fools think
that they can ride out an American defeat. In their delusion they think
that America can face ignominious defeat in Iraq, Israel can be thrown
to the wolves, Iran can become a nuclear power and their world will
continue undisturbed. They will be allowed to get on with urbane
reading of the New York Times Sunday Magazine unmolested, peaceful
lattes and chai teas at Starbucks, and cocktail party fundraisers for
Planned Parenthood while the French keep the peace and John Kerry
subdues Al Queda with subpoenas and injunctions.

I agree with your assessment that they view Bush as an obstacle to victory.  The victory that they seek, however, is a political victory, with no regard for the consequences.  In a previous era, their conduct would be described as being  useful idiots.