it's ironic that Democrats resorted so quickly to that tactic in an effort to blunt the effectiveness of General Petraeus' testimony.It's not ironic, it's par for the course. :') The claim by Dhimmicrats that they're accused of not being patriotic -- not by FReepers, but by the President, or members of the Bush administration -- because of this or that innocuous little thing they do is just a straw man argument used to try to cover the fact that they are anti-American. It's analogous to the skinheads, moslems, and dhimmicrats who hate Israel and Jews, claiming that they themselves are victims of bigotry simply because they oppose Israel's "policies" (meaning existence).
Democrats - the Vichyites of the USA! (RINOs ditto)