California Conservative

That’s a fight she’s gonna lose and look foolish in losing. That’s the reality of this fight. I just had the privilege of talking with Pete Hegseth, the executive director of Vets for Freedom. I told him, in detail, about Operation Good News. I told him how I wanted to work in unison with him on this issue. I told him that I wanted to repeat the things that we used in collapsing the ‘Grand Bargain’ and its Frankenstein followup.

Mr. Hegseth said that that’s the exact paradigm he was hoping to use. He said that we needed to “use force multipliers” to persuade our representatives and senators to give Gen. Petraeus’ plan a legitimate shot at success.

One thing that we immediately agree on was the use of the internet to collect the articles that provided firsthand reports of OAR’s successes. I said that “information is power” and that “we’ve got a ton of positive information” regarding Operation Arrowhead Ripper.

How does that tie into Ms. Pelosi. This article from the Hill Magazine will explain that connection:

The first votes in what Pelosi’s office termed “a month of action in Congress to end the war” could start as early as this week. Likely topics include legislation banning permanent bases in Iraq and cracking down on what Democrats call “war profiteering.” In addition, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) last month announced withdrawal legislation to “redeploy” troops by next spring.

I can’t wait to see Pelosi’s “month of action” be swept aside in a tidal wave of emails from We The People. I’ll bet that politicians don’t understand that we aren’t living according to the old paradigm where their allies in the media controlled the flow of information. They haven’t adapted to the new paradigm where activists like me and military officers like Lt. Hegseth can jump on the internet and find good news reports from Iraq, whether they’re from the AP, Reuters, Michael Yon, BlackAnthem or the US military websites.

“Republicans are breaking ranks with the president and many have said we need a new strategy starting in July, not September,” said Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami. The timeline legislation Pelosi announced before the Independence Day break has not been introduced, but it closely tracks the proposal by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) that the withdrawal begin within 120 days, with most troops ordered out by next spring.
The idea is to present the House and the Senate as unified.

Mr. Elshami is betting that We The People are gonna sit on our hands while Democrats throw Iraq under the bus. That’s a major mistake. Based on the numerous conversations I’ve had with Minnesota activists, people like Lt. Hegseth and others, that isn’t our plan.

Ms. Pelosi’s goal is to intimidate GOP legislators into voting for John Murtha’s defeatism. My goal is to unleash an Army of Davids to intimidate those GOP legislators into doing the right thing. I’ll bet that the Army of Davids will win this fight. In fact, I suspect that politicians jump alot higher when voters tell them to do what’s right or get retired in the next primary than they’d jump when a Washington Post poll tells them that ‘the American people don’t support the war anymore’.

Let’s rally behind the troops and Gen. Petraeus. If we do this right, we’ll leave Ms. Pelosi’s defeatists with a ‘What hit us’ look in their eyes.

Isn’t that alone worth the effort?

Technorati Tags: Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, Carl Levin, Defeatism, Pete Hegseth, David Petraeus, Rick Lynch, Vets For Freedom, Operation Good News, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 at 8:50 am and is filed under Activism, Author: Gary Gross, Election 2008, Iraq, Media, Military, Pelosi, W. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.