Our US Congress: The New Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys

Madsion Forum ^ | 2/14/07 | Doug McKittrick

[eeevil conservative]

Please spare me the “we support our troops but oppose the war” drivel. Any 2nd grader comprehends the absurdity of the statement. And to the better-educated-than-the average-American members of our military, it essentially tells them that their service to this nation is wrong. How long can one be told “I like you, but I don’t like what you do” and not have it impact one’s morale?

And please spare me the pejorative label that this is “Bush’s war.” This is more than Bush’s war – it is Congress’ war. Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution specifically reserves to Congress the authority to declare war. In 2002, 379 members voted to go to war, and that included Clinton, Kerry, Reid, Murtha, Biden, and so many others now calling for defeat. 71% of our federal legislature voted to authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces against Iraq. Those clamoring the loudest now for defeat are the same ones who demanded we liberate the poor defenseless Iraqis. In 2003, Senator Clinton went so far as to justify her vote on the grounds of exhaustive analysis and study. How interesting that just recently she publicly started that if she knew then what she knows now she would not have voted for the war… Huh???

Pardon me Senator, but that cliché is so patently incongruous those same 2nd graders see though it. You, and the other craven members of our Congress have done your best to ensure failure. When the honeymoon of temporary victory was elapsed by the reality of war and the brutal confrontation between democratic ideology and Islam, you surrendered. Since the beginning of the war, our Congress, especially the liberal Democrats, has done it’s best to undermine the military’s ability to successfully prosecute the war. In collusion with the unrelenting main-stream media (MSM) assault on the effort in Iraq, Congress has betrayed our military.

So intent on hurting and disabling the President, members of Congress nodded sagely when the MSM gloried in each American’s death, gleefully blaming Bush for this new Viet Nam. For example, with the merciless and besotted attention given to Abu Ghraib, one would think that the US was beheading its prisoners, a barbarism employed by our enemies. Yet the names of Nicholas Berg, Eugene Armstrong, and Daniel Pearl are mere asterisks in the annals of MSM history while Abu Ghraib is a volume unto itself.

The travesty of our Congress is that it lacks both leadership and backbone. Even as this commentary is written, the Surrender Monkeys have boldly slunk their way into the limelight with a “non-binding” resolution on the Iraq war essentially stating “we’re groveling cowards who would rather have another attack in the US than see victory in Iraq… and it’s a pity we weren’t in Congress when WWII happened, because we’d have made sure we had a good dialogue with the Japanese after Pearl Harbor and tried to work through our differences, instead of unilaterally attacking them…”

Where is the courage of conviction? If the amount of time spent on haggling over this resolution is worth the effort, then stand by your conviction, and exchange that piece of over-cooked pasta you call a spine for something made of sterner stuff, and vote to cut off funding for our military. It’s easy to hurl aspersions and castigate the Commander in Chief for the conduct of the war. But you offer no answers, no solutions, other than tuck our tails between our legs and run. You subvert the very men and women you sent to war. Is it any wonder Al Qaeda and every other terrorist organization view America as bin Laden called us – a paper-tiger. A year ago, Army BG Robert Caslen Jr., then the Joint Chiefs Deputy Director for War on Terrorism, recognized and understood that there was a good chance we could lose this war. As he pointed out, research revealed it took an average of nine years to successfully put down an insurrection. Unfortunately, further research also showed that America’s resolve and support begin to wither after about three years. In contrast to today’s America, it took 25 years to defeat Fascism, and even longer to win the Cold War.

Rest assured, the terrorists have a battle plan. As BG Caslen so adroitly states, “Their first goal is to drive America from Iraq and establish Islamic authority in the country. This would give the extremists a base to operate from and would help in their second goal, which is to go after and defeat all neighboring "apostate" states -- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Turkey, Syria, Iran and Jordan. These countries, terrorist groups have claimed, have abandoned Islamic ideals. The third step is to destroy Israel. The fourth step would be to establish a Caliphate -- a government under a supreme religious ruler -- stretching from Central Asia to the Atlantic.”

When asked if it could happen, BG Caslen answered, "Yes. If we lose our resolve."

Well, General, apparently we have.

Our Congressional leadership would rather focus on elections in 2008 than the security of this nation. Lacking the leadership to understand the gravity of the war in Iraq, the concentric ramifications of defeat, and the ability to communicate it, Congress has buckled under the weight of polling. Instead of courage and direction, we get non-binding resolutions.

Recently Murtha stated that he would not serve in today’s military. I have to say that, in this instance, I agree with him. However, it’s not because I wouldn’t want to serve with the exceptional men and women of our armed forces. Rather, it’s because I do not want my life in the hands of the spineless cheese eating surrender monkeys currently responsible for authorizing and sending our youth to war, as well as defending this nation.

[eeevil conservative]

YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS ONE!!!!

[randog]

Recently Murtha stated that he would not serve in today’s military.

I don't blame him--boot camp alone would kill that old fart.

[Convert]

WHITE Flags?

[Darksheare]

Yowch, spanked!
Thanks for the ping, it is a good read.

[Txsleuth]

I just heard a soundbite for John Murtha saying that if the Americans weren't in Iraq...the Iraqis would EASILY defeat al-queda!!!...and solve their own fighting!! LOL

[MNJohnnie]

THANK YOU!

[freeangel]

I'm pretty sure the US military wouldn't want him either.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This calls for the Toon..that Gritty put up, ...the raising of the white Flag over Iraq.

[SkyPilot]

I agree with everything he said.

Unfortunately, we have enough Americans who are so sorely misguided and cowardly that a Democrat majority now sits in the halls of Congress.

Articles like this are great on FR for preaching to the choir.

I fear our nations has already turned too far away from God (the real one) for us to emerge victorious.

Too many in this nation go shopping while members of the military are on their 4th rotation to Iraq or Afghanistan.

This isn't a "War on Terror." It is a War Against Islam, and we don't have the resolve to fight it. The last real war America fought was WW II.

Back then, those that didn't serve worked to support the war effort. The organized rubber drives, war bond rallies, and they practiced civil defense.

While there are some great Americans who do support our military at home, they are far, far too few.

1,381,401 Americans are on active duty. There are 117,988 Guard and Reserve on active status. The US population is approximately 300 million. This means one half of one percent (0.5%) of the population is actually fighting.

9-11 is already a distant memory. Too many Americans have already surrendered. Our Congress is almost in a treasonous alliance with Al Qaeda. Our media is an abomination and a propaganda arm of Islamic murderers.

Sorry for the pessimism, but we are in dire circumstances. Unless Americans wake up, we are in for dark days ahead.

[Gritty]

[TBP]

So what else is new? They can't control volunteers like they can control the draftees -- after all, they force draftees into the military in the first place -- so they hate the volunteers.

They have no backbone, never did. They'll surrender. These are the descendents of teh people who tried to defeate teh Soviets by signing numerous treaties with them.

[bray]

Great article. Although the French are owed an apology!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I hadn't seen this one...I was thinking of the one ...that was modeled on the raising of the Iwo Jima flag.....

[Loud Mime]

Bump

[CDB]

Recently Murtha stated that he would not serve in today’s military...

Murtha wouldn't be accepted into the new military. And thanks, EC. for this terrific piece!

[SoCalPol]

thanks eeeev, you go girl.

[Gritty]

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