Posted on 07/10/2007 7:39:48 PM PDT by neverdem
More and more members of Congress - including several Republicans heretofore regarded by the White House as key loyalists - are forgetting that, back when they confirmed Gen. David Petraeus as ground commander in Iraq, they gave him until September to report back on the military effort.
That deadline is two months down the road, but the wise heads of Capitol Hill - many of them concerned more about election prospects than about a war the West must win - have decided we might as well hand Baghdad to the bombers.
It's true that there's plenty of bad news out of Iraq - just as there are signs of progress. Congress is due an interim status report next weekend, and the bad guys know that as well as anyone, which is why we've been seeing such bloodcurdling violence of late. The bad guys are well aware that every savage market blast, every blownup G.I. patrol gnaws away at America's national resolve that much more. That's their plan. It works.
Two months B.P. (Before Petraeus), Congress is again doing whatever it can to cut the general off at his knees. This week will see fresh discussion of a measure - co-sponsored by Sen. Hillary Clinton, sometime hawk, sometime dove (see page opposite) - to revoke the October 2002 war authorization. More amendments setting troop-withdrawal deadlines will be factored into the $670 billion defense spending bill entering debate.
Whatever Petraeus will say in September is of little interest to many in Congress. The bad guys know this. The pull-out-now crowd argues that the bad guys have, essentially, won. And, with even Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of the Foreign Relations Committee saying the troop surge can't accomplish anything because of "the short period framed by our own domestic political debate," it's hard to blame the bad guys for feeling encouraged.
Ping.
Just name the names of ALL The Republicans who make up this resistance?
hmmmm one, two, maybe three names come to mind. Not the mass resistance movement the headlines proclaim.
Sounds like it’s time to man the phones again and send hundreds of thousands of emails. These morons haven’t learned that they were sent to DC to represent the American people and to protect this nation. So far, they haven’t done anything but collect money while attempting to destroy our military and take away our freedoms. IMO, it’s past time to clean traitors out of the US Congress.
Wow that is a great piece of reporting there... So maybe this will spark the real debate... You know the Post pull out of our troops debate when we have to sent them back in at a cost of 50-100k lives....
Or of the debate about losing the Bumper sticker campaign and dealing with the inevitable loss of 10k - 50k American citizens here at home during the next (Pick your Islamic Terrorist organization) sponsored attack.
Democrats are the useful idots of our enemies that is the real debate.
But what is the leadership at the top, now not in evidence, that will prevent the Democrats from succeeding in doing what they did when they sold out the South Vietnamese?
Bush keeps saying on a daily basis that if we leave Iraq, the terrorists will follow us home. Nobody is listening it seems.
The author seems to start off under the delusion that Democrats can be trusted at their word.
He should know better.
It was probably cobbled together by a couple or more members of their editorial board, which is usually, fairly left wing.
Simple This is nothing like vietnam. The Left has attempted to hypnotize Americans into believing that we attacked (THEM)... But in Fact (They) Attacked us. Our strategic decision to remove Saddam Hussein was an offensive response to what happened on 911.
I hate when the Liberals say Iraq had nothing to do with 911... Our Removal of Saddam from power in other words our Iraqi response had everything to do with 911...
I mean it makes for a great soundbite when the liberals use it but in truth 911 was simply the result of a movement of Radical Islamists against strategic targets in the U.S.
Now they launch terror operations in Bahgdad and we deal with it there... If we fail in our resolve and pull out of the offensive then we will face them here that is not even an assumption.
So unlike Vietnam where the Viet Cong had no ambitions beyond there borders there in lies the quandry and the failure of the Democrats.
I’m a recent immigrant to NY State, having arrived here less than three months ago from the People’s Republic of Washington. Even though there is an undeniable liberalness about this place, the memories of the aftershock of 9/11 are still deeply imbedded here. Even Rat politicians such as Hillary have to pander to the images, even though she’d rather plant a big fat wet one on most Arab leaders, at least their wives, anyway.
The political whores are well... whores. No honor, no self respect, only in it for easy jobs and good salaries.
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