As Bremer's ill-conceived and ill-timed crackdown on Muqtada al-Sadr has the whole occupation threatening to spin out of control, Mona Charen has the courage and the guts to place the blame for this setback squarely where it properly belongs: with Spanish voters.

And the application of this principle at home is even clearer: if we don't want our soldiers to die, we must uncritically endorse the guy who put them in harm's way...