Posted on 08/03/2007 9:55:33 AM PDT by Warhammer
OIF: Good news is bad for surrender monkeys
In our democratic republic, we charge our elected representatives with the conduct of vigorous debate about issues both foreign and domestic. In doing so, we expect them to uphold their oaths to protect and defend our Constitution.
However, politicians often posture and pretend in order to line up constituencies that perpetuate their tenure in office, regardless of constitutional constraints.
Such political posturing is a disingenuous breach of trust at best. When this deceit extends to matters of national security, especially when we are at war and continue to face formidable threats from Jihadi terrorists, it is downright traitorous.
The Democrat Party was, in a bygone era, populated by statesmen. Until JFK (that’s J.F. Kennedy not J.F. Kerry), Democrat leaders, understood the projection of force to protect America’s security and vital interests abroad.
Now, this once-proud political party is infested with hypocritical, nescient, duplicitous, reprehensible, half-witted, asinine, obsequious, meretricious, pusillanimous, indolent, imbecilic, pompous, retromingent, ignominious, ungrateful, sycophantic prevaricators (did I leave anything out?), who flippantly exploit Operation Iraqi Freedom as political fodder for their next campaign.
Truth be told, most Democrats know that the fate of the entire Middle East (and, by extension, much of the free world) depends on the establishment of a stable government in Iraq. They know that Fourth Generation Warfare in the Second Nuclear Age leaves us no choice but to confront Jihadistan on the Iraqi front. After all, if not Iraq now, then where and when?
They also know that much of what is reported in the American media reflects not only the propaganda machines of the Left, but also that of our Jihadi adversaries. This is because these cutthroats understand that our mainstream media is friendly terrain for undermining American will.
Unfortunately, petty party politics prevail, with little regard for the inconvenient truth that Leftist defeatism merely emboldens our enemy and further endangers our troops in Iraq.
Now, however, there is a confluence of analysis from the warfront in Iraq that OIF has turned a corner. Clearly, such news will have significant consequences for those Leftists who have staked their political fortunes on America’s failure, surrender and retreat from Iraq.
In the New York Times this week, two noted and vocal critics of OIF, Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, analysts with the Left-leaning Brookings Institution, published an op-ed entitled “A War We Just Might Win.”
Having just returned from a fact-finding tour of Iraq, their op-ed notes, “After the furnace-like heat, the first thing you notice when you land in Baghdad is the morale of our troops. Today, morale is high. The soldiers and Marines... feel now they have the numbers needed to make a real difference.”
On the politics of Iraq, O’Hanlon and Pollack write, “Viewed from Iraq... the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility. Yet now the administration’s critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.”
Their analysis continues: “Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily ‘victory’ but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.”
Also this week, retired Army General Jack Keane testified before the House Armed Services Committee, telling them in no uncertain words, “Your actions here in the Congress appear to be in direct conflict with the realities on the ground where the trends are up and progress is being made. We are on the offensive and we have the momentum.”
That news was so distressing to Rep. Nancy Boyda (D-KS) that she walked out of the committee hearings during General Keane’s testimony, lamenting later that there was “only so much [she could tolerate] after so much of the frustration of having to listen to what we listened to.” She continued, “Those kinds of [encouraging] comments will in fact show up in the media and further divide this country instead of saying, ‘Here’s the reality of the problem’.”
Of course, reality in the alternate universe of the Left dictates that down is up, in is out, left is right, black is white, falsehood is truth, pride is humility, red is blue and, particularly in the case of Iraq, good news is bad.
Adding insult to injury, more bad news for Demos: Marine General Jim Jones conducted a congressionally mandated study of Iraq’s security forces and returned with a favorable report.
This report, combined with the continuing decline of American and Iraqi casualties, has Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid very concerned that their “defeat and retreat” political folly may backfire.
Asked about the political implications should commanding Gen. David Petraeus report significant progress during his scheduled congressional testimony in September, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) replied, “Well, that would be a real big problem for us, no question about that.”
Good news out of Iraq is “a real big problem”? Guess that depends upon whose side you’re on.
Go get 'em troops!
Thought you might be interested in this.
Go get ‘em!
Maybe we need to re-evaluate the Roman Senate. Senators in Rome could only hold office for one year. Then they had to wait for five years to run again. Worked for them for about 1000 years. Our Congressmen/women only serve so they can run again in two years. Term limits need to put in place and get rid of the career Kennedys.
One problem: There are enough Kennedies so that they could have many of them staggering their terms so a Kennedy always holds that seat. Compare that to having one staggering Kennedy hold it forever.
I hate to say this, pal, but maybe what you saw suggests that some of your past criticisms were wrong, and the Bush administration was right.
Looks like a realistic summary to me. Hooray Mark Alexander!
As an OIF Vet, I just wonder how many of our troops have been killed by the dems encouraging our enemies. They are truly the enemy within!!
bttt
Jeeze~~~~~
More pings for me!
Thank you for your service.
‘hammer
Only the one and only word that is the whole truth - and one we'd da*m well better start using to wake up the sheeple: SOCIALISTS
When, in God's Holy name, are we going to start calling these people what they are - socialists - versus what they are NOT: Democrats?
Zell Miller said it: "I did not leave my party. My party left me."
Joe Lieberman was, it looks like, the last real democrat left, albeit it watered down.
It is a fact that the Democratic SOCIALISTS of America have spent the last 30 years, with deliberate point by point objectives, totally usurping the old Democrat Party. They are card carrying Socialists and proud of it. On that count, they may not scream too loud at being called out for what they are...they see nothing wrong with it.
Why do we sit mutely by and let them plunge this country into socialism? There are still many older democrats who still believe in their party but are oblivious to the fact that it is now a party of, and controlled by, the socialists.
Or are we going to pull off another fool strategy like the last election where so many of us decided to let the socialists take control "to teach the republicans a lesson"? Are we going to let the Socialists deep six our Constitution and turn our country into the United SOCIALIST States of America "to teach the people a lesson"?
It took Russians over 3 generations to get free of it.
Make no mistake, we are at war on two fronts: One against the barbarians and one against Washington Socialists. We win them both or our freedoms are gone - for at least as long as anyone reading this today is alive.
ONE WORD: SocialistsSocialistsSocialistsSocialistsSocialistsSocialistsSocialists..............
Say it out loud to yourself, right now.
Believe it.
Repeat it to everyone -
Appreciate your thoughts. I flew with a Blackhawk unit where it was relatively safe so its the guys on the ground searching for the bad guys who really deserve your thanks. Jess
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