The buffoonery pouring forth from the mouths of modern liberals is only equaled by the massive damage it inflicts upon our national security and our very will.
American soldiers have been railed against by the likes of Ted Kennedy, a senator who drives seeing threes steering wheels.
American soldiers have been berated by John Murtha, a representative known not only for eating his shoes at every press conference but also paying for those shoes with bribe money.
American soldiers have been defamed by John Kerry, a veteran who all too happily recounts his actions in Vietnam where he injured himself several times in order to leave early.
American soldiers have been denounced by Dick Durbin, a senator who daily confuses the American Constitution with Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
American soldiers have been bashed by Nancy Pelosi who seems to believe that radical Islamic terrorists have greater moral standards than our military personnel.
I could go on but you get the idea. The fact of the matter is these people who call themselves honorable have a long track record of creating fodder for pro-terrorist television and propaganda. Liberal politicians only find it within themselves to support the troops when it becomes necessary in order to keep their power. At any other time, one cannot help but to notice their statements which are readily repeated by radical mullahs and replayed by Al Jazeera.
Consider Congressman Jim Webb who claims to speak for the troops because he, as well as members of his family, have served in the military. At his urging we are to be foolish enough to leave Iraq and by doing so, irresponsibly create an Iranian eastern bloc. The military has been very clear and has repeatedly informed these politicians that the majority of the bombs going off in Iraq are coming from Iran (and incidentally sometimes originally produced in Russia during the Cold War, thanks a million Vladimir).
It comes down to this. Saddam Hussein was a mass-murdering dictator who believed in a well known principle; the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Al Qaeda in fleeing from Afghanistan found refuge in many places but chiefly among those places was Iraq. Thus, the enemies of America found refuge with a long-time enemy of America.
I’ll break this down even further for those who argue that we cannot impose freedom. These people argue that America has no moral authority to put a stop to atrocities of another culture. If our moral code isn’t universal enough to apply to other cultures what gives us the gall to apply it to those who by violating law are clearly choosing that our culture doesn’t apply them either? We cannot impose freedom, by the very definition of liberty? Maybe but we can eradicate freedom’s enemies and give liberty a fighting chance.
The fact is that there is universal right and there is universal wrong. It was a profound mistake, continuing to go to the United Nations expecting them to change Hussein and root out terrorism. This sort of action would be like going to Congress to try to write laws to stop someone from taking off his pants because at the moment he’s raping your sister. It doesn’t make sense. Take care of the evil and stop it from occurring today and deal with it recovering ground tomorrow.
The next obvious step is to stay there and make sure that threat does not arise again. We didn’t go to Iraq because Saddam Hussein might have attacked the United States. We went to Iraq because he was harboring people who HAD attacked the United States. The fact that Hussein refused to show confirmation of what happened to his weapons stocks was only fuel on the fire.
But recall if we went into Iraq because it was a hive of terrorist activity then we are clearly not finished eradicating it from that region. Sure, we got rid of the dictatorship and have helped good Iraqis institute a rudimentary free state but the brutal activity of Al Qaeda is as heavy now as it was when we first invaded, greater perhaps because the ruling government of Iraq is no longer friendly to them.
Liberals claim that simply killing the enemy is morally repugnant. They claim that pulling out of Iraq would be ethically superior to continuing toward victory. Yet, the truly morally baseless action would be leaving just after destroying the only governance keeping Al Qaeda and Iranian psychopaths from slaughtering the rest of the 50 million Iraqis Hussein hadn’t had butchered yet.
If the liberals find victory in a white flag withdrawal from Iraq then thousands and maybe even hundreds of thousands will be killed in an ultra-violent effort to unseat the newfound freedom tasted so sweetly by that majority of voting Iraqis. Believing anything otherwise is to believe that terrorists, who use machetes to saw the heads off of hostages (military and civilian) and raped, tortured and murdered school children in Beslan, are more trustworthy than the average American soldier.
The truth is that American soldiers have taken far greater risks to their own safety to see that they do not endanger anyone who may not be a terrorist. John Murtha nearly went on tour to crucify several marines before an investigation to see what really happened other than running with preliminary and isolated interviews. It has come to light recently that these soldiers did nothing wrong unless you believe conflicting testimony from questionable Iraqis.
In a war against utter contempt for non-Muslims, age, sex and appearance are not a factor in whether or not an individual is an enemy. What makes an enemy is an individual threatening actions against our military, our people, our nation and our allies. Iraq is directly in a middle of a group of nations where children are taught by their parents, by their religious leaders and by their television shows to hate Jews and Americans and to praise Allah whenever a Jew or an American is killed and further, to honor suicide bombers who carry out such insane murder. It is no great surprise that many who have been killed in this war in Iraq are not in uniform and sometimes not what we would consider of age for combat.
In the end, the liberal leadership of the Democratic party and the handful of left leaning Republicans will ultimately support the terrorists, regardless of their intentions. They may say they believe in leaving Iraq’s new ally government to ruin and justify that belief with polls or sound bites or flawed reason.
What they are really doing is subversion and is the best assistance the enemies of America could ever hope for. Consider the comparisons made Senator Durbin and Representative Ellison. Their likening of the Bush administration to the Nazi regime of Germany’s 1940s is echoed by the likes of Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and even Osama Bin Laden, himself.
Couple these spiteful remarks with the loving and overly concerned statements flowing from the left, not only for the terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib but also in other prisons around the world, and such speech becomes no small matter of policy differences. Treating terrorists like criminals is exactly what allowed groups like Al Qaeda to intimidate politicians and run rampant the world over for a dozen years prior to 9/11.
Such statements of disgust for the American military is, in fact, a matter of support for the enemies who kill and try to kill those brave heroes whom we are lucky to have in our military. I don’t question anyone’s patriotism. It is a simple matter to know the existence or non-existence of someone’s patriotism based solely upon their words and actions. Love America. Love our troops and be happy when a soldier puts three .223 rounds into a terrorist. I know I am.
