This is what Howard Dean is saying today (from CNN):

Dean: U.S. can't win Iraq war
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is drawing GOP fire after telling a Texas radio station that the idea the war in Iraq can be won is "just plain wrong."

This is what John Kerry said this weekend:
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs."

Apparently Kerry believes that someone should be terrorizing kids and children, though (kids and children - is there a difference? Maybe he means baby goats - someone call PETA):
"Iraqis should be doing that."

Ah, I see.

Of course, trashing troops is old hat to Kerry - I think he just pulled out his crinkled, yellow Vietnam-era testimony and just did a little reworking:
"They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."

And then, there's Murtha, who said:
The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion...There have been reports of at least 30,000 Iraqi civilian deaths.... I believe before the Iraqi elections, scheduled for mid December, the Iraqi people and the emerging government must be put on notice that the United States will immediately redeploy...Our military has done everything that has been asked of them, the U.S. can not accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily. IT IS TIME TO BRING THEM HOME."

And Pelosi, whose contribution was:
"I'm endorsing what Mr. Murtha is saying, which is that the status quo is not working and that we need to have a plan that makes us safer and our military stronger and makes Iraq more stable," she said. "I believe that what he has said has great wisdom." (of course shortly before that, she said Murtha didn't speak for all Democrats...)

And countless others.

What's clear is that the Dems want to repeat the biggest mistake made in Vietnam - letting political agendas dictate the war. Our President has said that military commanders, the situation on the ground, will dictate strategy. The libs want to return to the era where the negative press and the loudest politician could dictate strategy.

The only problem with resurrecting the media strategy is that the media is no longer the only voice out there. There are bloggers - milbloggers reporting positive efforts, positive results. There is a President who isn't going to pick the TV news over his military commanders when it comes to deciding who is best equipped to judge progress.

The Dems have been the party of defeat, of letting other nations dictate how this country protects itself, and of ducking and running for a long time. They're just singing the same song on a new stage.