Re: Democrats' Version of Support -Increases funding over the president's request

CB wrote:
> Democrats' Version of Support
> David Limbaugh
> Tuesday, April 24, 2007
>
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> One is entitled to wonder how the prime movers in today's Democratic
> Party would behave differently if they were trying to dispirit our
> troops and embolden the enemy.
>
> Early on in the Iraq war I watched in disbelief as Democrats, one by
> one, then group by group, with malice aforethought, fraudulently
> accused President Bush of something they knew to be false. They say
> he deceived the nation about Iraqi WMD to start a war he had been
> predetermined to launch since before he was conceived.
>
> He did this because a) he wanted revenge against Saddam for his
> father, b) he wanted Iraq's oil for the United States, c) he wanted
> Iraq's oil for Dick Cheney, or d) he is a neoconservative dogmatist
> who believes democracy is a panacea and pre-emptive wars to convert
> tyrannies to democracy are our new Manifest Destiny.
>
> Yes, they accused our commander in chief of lying us into war - thus
> savaging his reputation and that of the United States before the
> entire world - all the while complaining that President Bush had
> damaged our reputation in the international community.
>
> Just to make sure there was no misunderstanding as to their intent to
> destroy his (and the nation's) image, they remained at their
> megaphones to shriek, incessantly, that Mr. Bush hadn't given Saddam
> enough time and chances to comply with U.N. resolutions (though he'd
> violated umpteen of them). This sent an unmistakable signal to the
> world that it was President Bush that had been unreasonable and in
> the wrong on this war.
> To further emphasize their message, Democrats branded Bush as a
> unilateralist, flagrantly ignoring that he had desperately tried to
> bring as many nations as he could into the coalition and did succeed
> in convincing a significant number.
>
> They also condemned him for initiating a pre-emptive war - even
> though their best hope at the time, John Kerry, later acknowledged
> that pre-emptive war under certain circumstances had always been an
> acceptable strategy of the United States.
>
> Story Continues Below
>
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>
> On into the war, Democrats couldn't bad mouth our progress often and
> loudly enough. For example, they proclaimed, quite gleefully, that
> the Iraqi people did not greet us as liberators, but occupiers,
> leaving no doubt they would rather have that dismal result if it
> meant discrediting their nemesis President Bush.
>
> At times they even downplayed the landmark Iraqi elections as
> insignificant and illusory.
>
> Though Democrats have always maintained, counter-logically, that they
> supported the troops even while they were busy "Sheehan-izing" the
> war, they couldn't help but reveal their true colors on many
> occasions, such as when Sen. Kerry accused our soldiers of
> terrorizing Iraqi civilians or when Sen. Durbin likened the Gitmo
> prison to the Soviet, Nazi, and Cambodian death camps. Nor must we
> forget that Durbin did not actually apologize for his outrage, saying
> only that he was sorry that people misunderstood him. But they didn't.
>
> Despite these precedent-breaking acts of disloyalty, the Democrats
> weren't finished outdoing themselves.
>
> Nancy Pelosi proved that when she went to Syria over the president's
> strenuous objections, to engage in diplomacy with Syrian tyrant
> Bashar Assad on behalf of the United States (at least as she wished
> it to be), though she was utterly without legal or moral authority to
> do so.
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>
> Surely, we thought, the very leader of the entire House of
> Representatives wouldn't go that far and contradict and undermine, so
> overtly, the official foreign policy of the United States.
>
> We were wrong.
>
> Just when we thought they couldn't stoop lower, we witnessed Senate
> Majority Leader Harry Reid's latest disgrace, telling the world,
> including our troops, that we have lost the war in Iraq. While Reid
> and his spinning staff and colleagues tried to backpedal, there is no
> mistaking his words.
> There is even less excusing them.
>
> It's time for Harry Reid to explain how he can justify funding the
> war for another month, much less another year, when he believes there
> is no chance of securing the goal for which our troops are fighting
> and dying.
> At least President Bush isn't asking soldiers, in the words of that
> great patriot John Kerry, to die for a mistake, for President Bush
> believes they are fighting for a noble and essential cause.
>
> So what is the Democrats' excuse?
>
> It's hard to tell anymore whether the Democrats' deplorable actions
> are motivated more by their psychological predisposition against
> recognizing evil in the world (except among American political
> conservatives), or their raw quest for power. But perhaps Sen. Reid's
> recent statement to reporters sheds some light on the question.
>
> "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war," said
> Reid. "Sen. Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and
> astounding."
> Enough said.
>
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> CB
> For Declaring Defeat & Smearing Our Troops, Resign, Harry Reid!
>
> Benedict Arnold Reid is a national disgrace, and no amount of
> Schumer spin should let him off the hook.
>
> --Rush Limbaugh