the Centrist

Just Whose Side Are These Guys On?
 

         I am outraged at the Democratic Congress’s lack of support for troops they put in harm’s way.  Never forget, they voted for this war, before they politicked against it.  Why not just fly a white flag over the capital building?  After all Senate Majority leader Senator Harry Reid has declared we have lost the war in Iraq.  This was after he pressured his constituents in the Senate by adding every pork barrel project he could find to the military appropriations bill.  If his colleagues would not back his radical agenda no doubt he would bring this to the attention of their constituents during the next election.  For instance he added monies for shrimp and peanut farming.  In the portions of the nation with large populations depending on these vocations if Senators refused to back this bill he would campaign against them by stating that they voted against ‘their’ bill.  After poisoning the military bill with this pork he added an exclamation point to his shameful surrender by setting a date certain for withdrawal.  
          Speaker of the House Pelosi was even worse; she recently attempt to force her own radical San Francisco style foreign policy on this nation by traveling half way around the world to meet with the terrorist supporter, Syrian President Bashar Assad, yet she found it to ‘inconvenient’ to walk down the hall for a briefing on our troops by General Petraeus.
          Over the past several months, and just this past weekend I have spoken to soldiers and marines home from Iraq.  They are overwhelmingly in support of this mission.  They say: “we are winning, let us take care of this thing … all we ask is support from you guys back home.”  That isn’t asking too much is it?  They assured me that this is not a civil war; it is an insurrection supplied and supported by two foreign nations … one soon to become a nuclear power.  Iraq’s northern neighbor Iran and its western neighbor, Speaker Pelosi’s ally Syria, are both supplying the invaders and allowing free access to both al Qaeda and Hezbollah to cross into Iraq.
It seems that only our military and our enemy understand … when we pull out they pull in … and then what?  Are we going to ask these same soldiers and marines to re-enter the theater to regain that which they have already won?  Why is it that the same politicians that demand we leave Iraq, have no problem with our bases in South Korea, Japan, and Germany … each with tenures over 50 years, each there as a direct result of wars.  Furthermore, less than six months ago these same Democrats promised they would continue to support the troops without setting a withdrawal date if they could get a change at the top of the Defense Department and in the war strategy. But they did not keep their word … surprised? 
         Every American must ask themselves: is preventing attacks on our homeland worth risking American lives?    Were over three thousand innocent lives taken on 911 worth an offensive war to keep the enemy from attacking and killing Americans on homeland soil?  Most importantly, since al Qaeda has chosen Iraq as their battle ground, isn’t it a moot point why we are there?  Shouldn’t the goal be to defeat the enemy, i.e. win the war?  Is it possible that the Democrats are playing politics with American lives?  What other conclusions can we make when Senators Schumer and Reid have been quoted as almost ‘giddy’ in anticipation of picking up more Senate seats “because of this war”.  Are they saying that those Senate seats are worth more than American military lives?  Is there no end to their political aspirations?  Is that patriotism?  Is that sanity?
          Since the enemy makes no secret how they feel it is time we listen to what they are saying.  Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr was recently quoted by his cousin:
“Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr launched a strong attack Saturday on President George W. Bush, calling him the “greatest evil” for refusing to withdraw American troops from Iraq.”
Does that sound familiar?  It came from al-Sadr but it sounds just like the Democrats in the House and Senate.
“Al-Sadr’s statement was read during a parliament session by his cousin, Liqaa al-Yassin, after the U.S. Congress ordered U.S. troops to begin leaving Iraq by Oct. 1. Bush pledged to veto the measure and neither the House nor the Senate passed the measure with enough votes to override him.
“Here are the Democrats calling you to withdraw or even set a timetable and you are not responding,” al-Sadr’s statement said.”
With the above in mind, all Americans should be asking: who are the political bosses in this Democratic controlled Congress backing … the democratically elected Iraqi Government, or America’s enemies like the radical Islamist al Sadr?