Posted on 09/11/2007 6:04:16 AM PDT by Racehorse
The biggest flurry of amateur military pronouncements occurred just before General David Petraeus testified before Congress on the situation in Iraq. Many Democrats publicly dismissed what he said before he said it, and some implied that he was a liar before he opened his mouth.
The real problem is that many Democrats have bet the rent money on an American defeat in Iraq, and without that defeat they could find themselves in big trouble in the 2008 elections.
Politically, the Democrats are caught between Iraq and a hard place. Their left-wing base has been angrily pressing them to cut off financial support for the war in Iraq but Congressional Democrats dare not outrage the rest of the country by doing that.
Leaders of the Democrats in Congress have already tried various ways of sabotaging the war effort, with arbitrary timetables for withdrawal and financing the war for only short periods, so that President Bush would be forced to pull out American troops and could then be blamed for the defeat.
But that hasn't worked either because not enough Democrats in Congress are willing to risk political suicide by obstructing the military in ways too blatant to pass muster with the public.
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Those who warn that Iraq could be "another Vietnam" need to get their history straight about Vietnam. The South Vietnamese government continued to defend itself against military invasion from the north after American troops withdrew.
Only after congressional politicians pulled the rug out from under them by cutting off financial aid, while their enemies were still receiving financial aid from other countries, did South Vietnam fall to the invaders.
Only similar congressional sabotage, in response to similar left-wing supporters, can make Iraq another Vietnam.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
At a time of war the Democrats have actually invested interest their political fortunes in seeing us lose the war.
I wish we could clone Thomas Sowell.
“Leaders of the Democrats in Congress have already tried various ways of sabotaging the war effort”
In a more enlightened time, these traitors that call themselves “congressman or senator” would have been hanged in front of the capitol building by now.
I've seen Americans deface national monuments, and destroy military offices. I've seen them protest God, and force firemen to participate in parades of perversion.
I've seen Americans do all of these things. Not once....not one time have I seen a conservative do any of these things.
Patriotism can be measured.
It is not patriotic to do any of the things you list.
Liberals are extremely judgemental individuals. They presume to know just about everything about what other people are thinking, and set up themselves as judge, jury and executioner.
The fact is, only God in Heaven knows what is in our hearts.
Liberals believe that they know best - about it all. Therefore, that “knowledge” gives them leave to act in the most preposterous and hurtful ways.
Liberals, it seems, are never proud of America. They seem to take exquisite delight in disliking America.
What possible good can come from that?
A conservatives patriotism is measured with a surveying transit, a liberals is measured with a micrometer.
No sir, you have not seen Americans do these things. You have seen anti-Americans that happen to reside in our country do them.
....and then put it here for me to steal.
Shame on you, and thanks.
That us a wonderful quote. I wonder how long it will be before the left “airbrushes” him out of our history too.
Stealing it again :
“It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces,and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers.
In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late.
Accordingly, I am readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I will, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials - after the fact.”
- Robert E. Lee, 1863
Thanks for the ping
Here's an interesting piece of video I ran across from yesterday's House hearing with Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker...
http://tank.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTgwODIyZjRhNTQ5MTE3ODQzMzkwMGE2ZDc3NTllOTA=
What was it that Gunny Highway said to the General in Heartbreak Ridge, a cluster something?
I’m stealing it from you as well. That one’s a keeper!
‘At a time of war the Democrats have actually invested interest their political fortunes in seeing us lose the war.’
There is no way the Democrats can deny this effectively in 2008. The video and audio soundbites will make for a great series of commercials.
Alas we are too civilized now for our own good.
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