Democrats: Fully Invested In Our Defeat In Iraq
By Gregg on War On Terror
Pundit Review
From today’s WSJ online (subs req) entitled “Awaiting the Dishonor Roll”
Congress has rarely been distinguished by its moral
courage. But even grading on a curve, we can only describe
this week’s House debate on a vote of no-confidence in the
mission in Iraq as one of the most shameful moments in the
institution’s history.
On present course, the Members will vote on Friday to
approve a resolution that does nothing to remove American
troops from harm’s way in Iraq but that will do
substantial damage to their morale and that of their Iraqi
allies while emboldening the enemy.
What else needs to be said about the real intentions of this once respectable Democrat Party?
The next time you hear Reid, Biden, Kerry, Clinton, or Kennedy claim that Bush and the GOP are “politicizing the war” think about their pathetic “non binding resolution.”
The motion at issue is plainly dishonest, in that
exquisitely Congressional way of trying to have it both
ways.... The resolution purports to “support” the troops
even as it disapproves of their mission. It praises
their “bravery,” while opposing the additional forces that
both President Bush and General David Petreaus, the new
commanding general in Iraq, say are vital to accomplishing
that mission. And it claims to want to “protect” the
troops even as its practical impact will be to encourage
Iraqi insurgents to believe that every roadside bomb
brings them closer to their goal.
So they can talk all day and night on the House and Senate Floor as they have been doing for the past few days about “supporting the troops” etc. But what do the “troops” think?
As for how “the troops” themselves feel, we refer readers
to Richard Engel’s recent story on NBC News quoting
Specialist Tyler Johnson in Iraq: “People are dying here.
You know what I’m saying . . . You may [say] ‘oh we
support the troops.’ So you’re not supporting what they
do. What they’s [sic] here to sweat for, what we bleed for
and we die for.” Added another soldier: “If they don’t
think we’re doing a good job, everything we’ve done here
is all in vain.” In other words, the troops themselves
realize that the first part of the resolution is empty
posturing, while the second is deeply immoral.
John Kerry Redux:
We aren’t prone to quoting the young John Kerry, but this
week’s vote reminds us of the comment the antiwar veteran
told another cut-and-run Congress in the early 1970s: “How
do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”
The difference this time is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
John Murtha expect men and women to keep dying for
something they say is a mistake but also don’t have the
political courage to help end.
If this “non binding resolution” does not qualify as being overtly treacherous, traitorous, and treasonous behavior I don’t know what does.
A newly confirmed commander is about to lead 20,000
American soldiers on a dangerous and difficult mission to
secure Baghdad, risking their lives for their country. And
the message their elected Representatives will send them
off to battle with is a vote declaring their inevitable
defeat.
And that is why we call them the Defeaticrats…
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