THE MOVEON CHOICE: Condemning Petraeus is condemning the troops.

National Review Online ^ | September 14, 2007 | W. Thomas Smith Jr.

[SuzyQ2]

...In other words, the Dems want to keep the troops in their places. The Dems want to appear to the rest of America that they have the troops best interests at heart. The Dems want the troops’ votes, and they are stymied by the fact that in an unpopular war, the military enlistment and reenlistment rates continue to meet or exceed goal, and the troops — by and large — don’t vote for Democrats.

So the Left in this country actually has two problems when it comes to Iraq: First, we’re making solid gains in a very tough counterinsurgency. Petraeus and Crocker have reported the situation as they know it to be, and as Clyburn says, that’s “a real grave problem” for the Dems.

Second, ...

[popdonnelly]

They want us to lose.

[tomnbeverly]

Standard Good news for the U.S. Military is bad news for the Democrats...

Let thousands of Soldiers die and the left celebrates their political victory...

Shame really that America has come to this...Nothing that our own Sectarian war won’t fix though....

[MrB]

One leftist (KOS/MoveOn/Moonbat type), in a fit of honesty, stated that they pity the military people, in a way, like you “would pity a retarded person”.

[astounded]

This piece needs to be on a front-line “MSM” op-ed page. It is well-crafted, honest and very hard-hitting. I believe there is a serious disconnect between what the democrat politicians believe about American voters, the polls, and what American voters really believe. After seeing and hearing General Petraeus, only hard-core left-wing democrats could believe he misled us all.

I think the democrat party overplayed its hand and will come crashing down in 2008. Thanks be to God.

The democrats in Congress - with very few exceptions - represent a clear and present danger to the national security of the USA.

[vietvet67]

This political mistake will be remembered.

After such a blunder you can no long conceal youself by claiming support for our troops. Insulting the military that protects our basic freedoms and doing so for political purposes cannot help but give rise to voters saying “Enough is enough.”

[Red in Blue PA]

Moveon ad: “General Betray Us”

Average left-winger: “We support the troops”

If by “supporting” the troops, they mean stabbing them in the back and supporting them while they bleed, I would agree.

[George W. Bush]

During the Xlinton era, we routinely opposed various generals like Weasly Clark. FR also made some flack over other generals.

I don't recall that being considered a bashing of the troops.

Anyway, I'm not agreeing with the MoveOns in any way in their vicious attack on Petraeus. But I don't accept that disagreeing with a general or with the president (say a President Hillary or a President Bill) is a bashing of the troops. We used to bash General Clark and President Xlinton daily on this site over Kosovo and Somalia. And Secretary Les Aspin too.

I recall President Lincoln did some troop-bashing and president-bashing when he was a Whig congressman in opposition to Polk. And he did some general-bashing when president. There are many other examples of this kind of dissent as well.

[Godwin1]

Move.on.org=George Soros. Soros is a foreigner, a self described “citizen of the world.” He has no love for or loyalty to the United States. So America can expect nothing from him other than an ungrateful stab in the back. But the likes of Obama, Hillary and Edwards have failed to distance themselves from the Soros libel, and Hillary even seemed to confirm it. How could any real American consider voting for any of these people?

[Winged Hussar]

I think MoveOn's people carve a notch in their keyboards every time we lose a man or woman in uniform. Good news for our Armed Forces is bad news for MoveOn.org, and vice versa. MoveOn.org would have a collective orgasm if the terrorists managed to kill 241 Marines, the way Hezbollah did in Beirut about 20 years ago. Remember, their former friend Michael Moore calls the terrorists "Minutemen."

Eli Pariser = Eli Parasite

(With a name like Pariser, he should have thought twice before starting a schoolyard name calling contest.)