Posted by
Jay Noble on Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:33:26 PM
Words are inadequate to express the contempt deserved by Senator Chuck Hagel and other pusillanimous Republican senators and congressmen who have deserted President Bush and joined the braying jackasses of the Democrat party and its amen corner in the media.
One expects relentless negativity from the latter but to see Republican "cut and run" from supporting the president’s decision to reinforce American forces in Iraq is simply too much.
The shortsightedness of most of these "cut and run" Republicans stems from political cowardice of the first order. Exhibit A is Senator Norm Coleman, who is anticipating a tough reelection campaign in the blue state of Minnesota in 2008. Rather than demonstrating some political courage and supporting the president, Coleman has stuck licked finger to the wind and decided to throw in with the Congressional surrender caucus. Me thinks that Senator Coleman may find that two years down the road his cut and running in face of fickle public opinion will prove very embarrassing.
Republicans are supposed to the grownups when it comes to national security so it is immensely discouraging to patriots when Republican members of Congress join the surrender caucus. With Democrats united in their desire to lose the war in Iraq, the mainstream media a Niagara of "retreat and defeat" commentary, and elite opinion outside government having always opposed the Iraq invasion, President Bush must feel extremely lonely right now. Probably Lincoln felt the same way when the Northern press was crucifying him and General Grant during the long summer and fall that Grant lay siege to Richmond and suffered enormous casualties in a series of battles with Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee. Thank goodness Lincoln was spared CNN!
If the polls are accurate, most Americans oppose President Bush’s decision to reinforce our forces. However, the polls don’t reflect how these respondents would fix the problem. Democrats, if they had the courage of their inner convictions, would leave Iraq now without regard to the consequences. They long ago made common cause (at least in spirit) with the jihadists in the desire for an American defeat. So deep and pathological is their hatred for all things George W. Bush they truly desire the defeat and humiliation of the United States in Iraq. This, of course, makes them traitors in any meaningful sense, and if we lived in a time where men of courage actually ran the Republican party, someone would brand the Democrats appropriately. Alas, neither the president or any prominent Republican has the moral courage to point out the shared goals of the Democrat Party and the Iraqi insurgents, and call the Democrats what they are.
We can only pray that the American solider will be successful in Iraq and yet again pull our chestnuts out of the fire. Don’t bet on the media reporting it, however. Peace and tranquillity could break out in Iraq and the media will work overtime to spin the story to report the situation as a illusion and disaster just around the corner.