We Will Bear Any Burden…
That’s what Democrats used to stand for. Nowadays, they stand for whatever George Soros and the Nutroots tell them to stand for. The title for this op-ed is proof of that:
This firmly paints Hillary into the anti-war corner. She’s now officially declared herself a defeatist. Here’s part of her op-ed:
The American people have waited long enough for progress in Iraq. They have waited long enough for the Iraqis to take responsibility for their own future. Today, more than 150,000 members of our armed forces are caught in a civil war. According to the Pentagon, overall levels of violence in Iraq have not decreased since the surge began. The last three months have been the deadliest period for American troops since the start of the war. It is time for the waiting to end and for our troops to start to come home.
Though she wrote this op-ed with Robert Byrd, there’s no mistaking that this is Hillary’s writing. Let’s dissect this bit by bit, starting here:
According to the Pentagon, overall levels of violence in Iraq have not decreased since the surge began.
That might be what Murtha’s cronies at the Pentagon are saying but that doesn’t square with what the AP reported:
At least 1,227 Iraqi civilians were killed in June along with 190 police officers and 31 soldiers, an officer at the Iraqi Interior Ministry’s operations room said. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the figures. That represented a 36 percent drop from the ministry’s May figures, 1,949 civilian deaths along with 127 police and 47 soldiers.
I don’t blame Hillary for ignoring the AP’s reporting on what the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. She’s in a situation that’s described as precarious at best. The worst news she could get politically is that the surge is working and that the media isn’t hiding the positive things that are happening in Anbar and Diyala provinces. If the truth about the improvements happening as a direct result of Operation Arrowhead Ripper got out, Hillary wouldn’t stand a chance of getting elected.
That is why we propose to end the authorization for the war in Iraq. The civil war we have on our hands in Iraq is not our fight and it is not the fight Congress authorized. Iraq is at war with itself and American troops are caught in the middle.
That’s a steaming pile of BS. Iraq isn’t “at war with itself”; it’s at war with al-Qa’ida and Iran, as I talked about here:
An operation west of Baghdad on Thursday focused on a cell making roadside bombs. Coalition forces killed one person and wounded another, the statement said. Three suspected were detained. Coalition forces detained another suspected al Qaeda terrorist in a separate raid in the Tarmiya area Thursday.
“We’re continuing to target all levels of the al Qaeda in Iraq organization and are disrupting both their leadership structure and operations,” said U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver.
In raids Wednesday, forces captured a man suspected of being the al Qaeda in Iraq administrative emir for a Baghdad neighborhood. He is thought to handle logistics and financing for terrorist cells in the area. Three people believed to be his associates were also detained.
That lays to rest the tired Murtha line that Sens. Byrd and Clinton used. If that doesn’t convince liberals, perhaps this will:
The self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq has given Iran a two-month ultimatum to stop meddling in Iraqi affairs or face all-out war, according to an audiotape posted on the Internet on Monday.
“We give… the leaders of Iran a period of two months to stop all forms of support to the rejectionists of Iraq, and stop direct and indirect interference in the affairs of the Islamic state,” said a voice attributed to the group’s leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.
The term rejectionists is used by Sunni militant groups to refer to Shiites, who dominate the government in Iraq and are in a majority in both Iraq and neighbouring Iran.
“Otherwise, expect a fierce war that will annihilate you, which we have been preparing for over the past four years and just waiting to issue the orders to wage the campaign,” the voice said.
Hillary isn’t too bright if she’s relying on John Murtha’s propaganda. This section highlights what’s happening: Sunni militant groups are threatening Iran for supplying Shi’ites with weapons. The last time I looked, civil wars are fought between rival factions of the same nation.
When we fought our Civil War, it wasn’t a battle between Quakers and Canada. It was a war pitting the secessionist states against the rest of the states. I’d further argue that the Iraqi Interior Ministry statistics of Iraqi casualties dropping by 36 percent is proof that Operation Arrowhead Ripper is well on its way to reducing the level of sectarian violence in the hottest provinces.
If the Bush administration believes that the current war, as it is being executed, is critical to America’s future, then it should make the case and let the people decide. Explain to the public why our young men and women should be sent into the middle of a fight between religious factions. Explain why we should continue to devote $10 billion each month to this fight.
The last thing we want to do is give a bunch of grandstanding presidential candidates the chance to bloviate endlessly about how awful Iraq is, etc. Rather than making the case anew, perhaps it’s best if Congress started dealing with facts instead of peddling half-truths and bald-faced lies. Perhaps the right thing to do is to have Congress use current, verifiable information to base their claims on.
That said, I know that people like Hillary and Robert Byrd won’t start using verifiable information during debates. That’s the last thing they want to do. They know that if they start using the information that Reuters, the LA Times, USA Today, Michael Yon, John Burns and CNN have reported, they couldn’t demagogue this issue.
It’s time that activists realized that this isn’t just about Iraq. It’s about selling the American people a bill of goods so that Democrats can maintain and/or increase their political power. That’s why they don’t care about the truth.
What a far cry today’s Democratic Party is from the Democratic Party that JFK spoke so eloquently about in his inaugural address:
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Hillary’s Democratic Party thinks that any price is too high, any burden too heavy, any hardship too unbearable. Hillary’s Democratic Party also thinks that supporting our friends and opposing the enemies of liberty is just too much work. Look what they’re advocating in this op-ed.
I’d like to ask honest liberals of the Lieberman ilk if that’s the political party that you feel honored to be part of. If it isn’t, then isn’t it time to announce, like Reagan did, that the Democratic Party has left you, that you haven’t left it? Isn’t it time that you said that you still believe in JFK’s soaring rhetoric about liberty and reject the defeatism of Hillary Clinton, John Murtha and Harry Reid?
Technorati Tags: Hillary, Robert Byrd, John Murtha, Harry Reid, Defeatism, JFK, Liberty, David Petraeus, Operation Arrowhead Ripper, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
July 10th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
McCain’s Speech On Iraq…
My god! What a speech by McCain today on Iraq: While I disagree with this man on many political issues, feeling the McCain-Feingold act was something for which he can never be forgiven, on Iraq and the war on terror……
July 11th, 2007 at 11:14 am
And just what do these geniouses in the U.S. Senate, especially its Majority Leader, think is going to happen if we pull out.
That Iran will go back to herding goats, that Turky will withdraw its forces from the Northern border of Iraq, and Al Qaeda go back into their caves in the Hindu Kush, and flowers will come up all over the world?
Is it just me or is there a disconnect with reality here large enough to conn an oil tanker through?
Idiots!