.Resolution Unbound
"This is a vent post. It's about cowardice, anti-Americanism, anti-patriotism, and out-right rooting for the enemies of freedom (al-Qaeda, Sadr, and the mullahs of Iran). And it's all about the majority of the senators who voted for this vile resolution. I'm sick to death of the lie "no one's question anybody's partriotism." I'm not questioning it in this case....I'm repudiating it. For an American to hope for....or to be ideologically committed to...the failure of the Iraq enterprise is not patriotic."What you seem to be forgetting is, that it's the administration who has lost the war and it's the administration who has given more than hope, but actual ground and territory to the enemies of freedom and democracy. The only thing this resolution does is send a message of no-confidence to the administration in it's ability to defend America..
IBC ~CMAR II
I don't know how anyone could help from sending such a message. That said I have to agree with Lugar's comments, and had I had a vote, would have voted Nay. But only because I think holding the hearing, and listening to the statements from the different Senators was more than enough of a no-confidence. But I am not there. nor is that despicability on my shoulders.
It was telling just to hear what Republican Senators really think, and I think Lugar should have held a similar hearing during his chairmanship. Not doing so hurt our efforts, and our chances for success, and may have, in and of itself taken away any chance that Iraqi's would ever know freedom.
posted by madtom at 12:14 AM
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The only thing this resolution does is send a message of no-confidence to the administration in it's ability to defend America...I don't know how anyone could help from sending such a message.
Yes, that's all it does. That's why it is so despicable.
If the FRC really believes that war is lost (as you say you do) then why did the FRC majority make this a non-binding resolution? That only leaves troops on the ground.
I'll tell you why. Because they know that the American do not believe (despite the efforts of certain people) that the war is lost...and what they want is to win it. These Senators know that if they FORCED Dubya to pull the troops out then THEY would be blamed for the defeat. How could that be if the war is already lost??
Here's an applicable life example:
In 1944, Thomas Dewey was the Republican nominee for President. He was encouraged to attack Roosevelt's handling of the war. He was told it was necessary to be taken as a viable alternative to FDR. His response was "I would rather be remembered as a good American than as President of the United States." That's not extraordinary patriotism. That's merely true patriotism.
The Left in this country openly declared Afghanistan a "quagmire" three weeks into the operation. The famed "unity" after 9-11 broke up the following February for a rather openly discussed reason: the up-coming mid-term elections.
This is more of that.
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