Grim reminders jog Nation's Democrat leadership after late spring memory loss.

Compare this:

Republican Congressional leaders expressed their shock one day after the disastrous D Day landings in Normandy, in which thousands of American troops lost their lives in a dangerous Democrat gamble to storm the beaches and overwhelm well-armed and well-entrenched fanatical German defenders.

"After 2-1/2 years of war," one Republican leader said, "this is as good as the Administration can do?!"

Reports have reached the Capitol that our troops were hurled directly into the guns of the Nazi defenders in open boats with exit ramps that opened directly into the murderous fire of the enemy. Some troops were evidently transported from naval troop carrier ships and offloaded directly into deep, wave-swept water, causing many of our boys to drown with their heavy equipment. Army Rangers were given the impossible mission of scaling cliffs while under fire, raising pointed questions about pre-mission planning that would choose such inhospitable terrain to mount the first major attack on German forces on the Western Front.

Some Republicans have questioned the advisability of this attack at all, given the phenomenal success of Russian forces on the Eastern Front and their willingness to go right to Berlin and get the job done for us. Complete non-involvement, or a much more limited involvement, are policy options that some say President Roosevelt has arrogantly refused to consider.

Republicans have begun to whisper that attendance at an Ivy League school and rapid advancement in politics due to family money are not a guarantee of intelligent policy choices.

More fringe elements of the Republican Party have even gone so far as to question whether President Roosevelt lied about his intentions to involve the Nation in ground combat in Europe in order to ensure his reelection!

"The wisdom of this kind of suicidal tactic just escapes me," said another Republican. "This is a grim reminder of our failed policy in Europe where thousands and thousands and thousands of tons of bombs delivered in ever more suicidal 8th Air Force unescorted, daylight bombing raids have failed to weaken the enemy's will to resist. Furthermore, the policy of support for the French has meant only frightful economic expense and needless battle deaths and, frankly, it is time for the French people to use the arms, ammunition, and supplies we've parachuted in to them and stand up to the foreign fighters who have streamed into their country specifically to engage American troops."

To this . . . :

Democrats said yesterday that the United States must start "redeploying" troops from Iraq, calling the recovery of the mutilated bodies of two U.S. soldiers a "grim reminder" of why withdrawal should begin soon.

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The Senate is expected to spend at least five hours today debating two competing Democratic proposals to start pulling U.S. combat troops out of Iraq.

The killings are "a grim reminder of the price we're paying for a failed policy in Iraq," said Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Democratic whip. "It's time for Iraqis to stand up. When will this end?"

"Troop 'redeployment' sought by Democrats." By Christina Bellantoni, Washington Times. 6/21/06.