Diddling While Americans Die
Great column by Oliver North. If this doesn't piss you off, especially at the defecting RINOs, nothing will:
He was an American hero. On his second tour of duty in Iraq, he had already served in the Western Pacific and a prior combat tour in Afghanistan. On Friday afternoon, Feb. 16, when Sgt. Joshua Frazier, USMC, was laid to rest in the soil of his native Virginia, his comrades in arms from the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines were fighting terrorists on the mean streets of Ramadi, in Iraq's bloody Al Anbar Province. As Sgt. Frazier's grieving mother was being presented with a carefully folded American flag, the Congress of the United States was debating a meaningless "non-binding resolution" attacking the commander in chief.
Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records or Hollywood actors who make "daring" films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others. Joshua Frazier was certainly such a man. Unfortunately, there are far too few members of Congress who fit the definition.
Amen. The majority in Congress now are self-serving power-hungry small-minded jackasses who would rather win re-election than save American lives. It really is that simple. Oh yes, they support the troops...but refuse debate on a resolution that includes guaranteeing funding for those troops while they are fighting for their - and our - lives. They support the troops - but have been on a continuous march to undermine their mission and destroy their commander in chief in a time of war. They support the troops - but they never, ever talk about American victory in the war on terror. They only talk about defeat and surrender. They support the troops - but you never hear them talk about heroes like Joshua Frazier because they don't want ANY positive light shed on his mission.
I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
Sgt. Frazier is one of more than 2,500 U.S. military personnel killed in action in Iraq. Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims the resolution being debated by the House of Representatives is a measure that "will continue to support and protect" U.S. military personnel. Yet, she also says it shows "Congress disapproves of the decision of President George W. Bush announced on Jan. 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq." How this does anything but damage U.S. and Iraqi morale and embolden America's adversaries is beyond comprehension.
Ah, but that is exactly what she and her fellow seditious Democrats want. Failure. Failure that they can hang around the necks of Bush and the Republicans for generations to come. Apparently, it is worth it to them to lose a few more American soldiers to achieve that end.
At the risk of pointing out the obvious, "our experience," in Pelosi's words, has proven that pulling U.S. forces out before the war is won is a formula for disaster. In Korea, the decision to withdraw U.N. troops to the 38th parallel resulted in stalemate and today's despotic, nuclear-armed regime in Pyongyang. In Vietnam, the congressional cut-off of funds in December 1974 precipitated the North Vietnamese communist takeover of the entire country less than five months later. The combined losses in both wars -- more than 108,000 Americans killed in action -- should be an object lesson for this Congress. Pulling out, holding back, withdrawing support, "de-funding" the war -- whatever it's called -- is tantamount to squandering lives.
Is that where this Congress is heading? Are the lives of courageous young American volunteers like Joshua Frazier worth so little to our Congress that they would ignore our peril for perverse personal political profit?
You got it, Mr. North. That is exactly where this Congress is heading if our Republicans who are still there do not do everything in their power to stop them.
Get out your pens or warm up your keyboards, people. Write to every Republican in Congress, and write twice to the wavering White Flag Republicans, and tell them what you think.
He was an American hero. On his second tour of duty in Iraq, he had already served in the Western Pacific and a prior combat tour in Afghanistan. On Friday afternoon, Feb. 16, when Sgt. Joshua Frazier, USMC, was laid to rest in the soil of his native Virginia, his comrades in arms from the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines were fighting terrorists on the mean streets of Ramadi, in Iraq's bloody Al Anbar Province. As Sgt. Frazier's grieving mother was being presented with a carefully folded American flag, the Congress of the United States was debating a meaningless "non-binding resolution" attacking the commander in chief.
Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records or Hollywood actors who make "daring" films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others. Joshua Frazier was certainly such a man. Unfortunately, there are far too few members of Congress who fit the definition.
Amen. The majority in Congress now are self-serving power-hungry small-minded jackasses who would rather win re-election than save American lives. It really is that simple. Oh yes, they support the troops...but refuse debate on a resolution that includes guaranteeing funding for those troops while they are fighting for their - and our - lives. They support the troops - but have been on a continuous march to undermine their mission and destroy their commander in chief in a time of war. They support the troops - but they never, ever talk about American victory in the war on terror. They only talk about defeat and surrender. They support the troops - but you never hear them talk about heroes like Joshua Frazier because they don't want ANY positive light shed on his mission.
I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
Sgt. Frazier is one of more than 2,500 U.S. military personnel killed in action in Iraq. Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims the resolution being debated by the House of Representatives is a measure that "will continue to support and protect" U.S. military personnel. Yet, she also says it shows "Congress disapproves of the decision of President George W. Bush announced on Jan. 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq." How this does anything but damage U.S. and Iraqi morale and embolden America's adversaries is beyond comprehension.
Ah, but that is exactly what she and her fellow seditious Democrats want. Failure. Failure that they can hang around the necks of Bush and the Republicans for generations to come. Apparently, it is worth it to them to lose a few more American soldiers to achieve that end.
At the risk of pointing out the obvious, "our experience," in Pelosi's words, has proven that pulling U.S. forces out before the war is won is a formula for disaster. In Korea, the decision to withdraw U.N. troops to the 38th parallel resulted in stalemate and today's despotic, nuclear-armed regime in Pyongyang. In Vietnam, the congressional cut-off of funds in December 1974 precipitated the North Vietnamese communist takeover of the entire country less than five months later. The combined losses in both wars -- more than 108,000 Americans killed in action -- should be an object lesson for this Congress. Pulling out, holding back, withdrawing support, "de-funding" the war -- whatever it's called -- is tantamount to squandering lives.
Is that where this Congress is heading? Are the lives of courageous young American volunteers like Joshua Frazier worth so little to our Congress that they would ignore our peril for perverse personal political profit?
You got it, Mr. North. That is exactly where this Congress is heading if our Republicans who are still there do not do everything in their power to stop them.
Get out your pens or warm up your keyboards, people. Write to every Republican in Congress, and write twice to the wavering White Flag Republicans, and tell them what you think.
posted by Jennifer at 3:16 AM
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