Democrats Play Politics With our Soldiers!

by Martin T. Ingham

I am disgusted by the way the Democrat Congress is conducting itself regarding the war on terror. Their latest vote to impose an arbitrary deadline for troop withdrawals from Iraq is simply playing politics, and nothing else, and I am seriously incensed by this latest act which is equivalent to spitting on our Armed forces.

By setting a date to withdraw from Iraq at this stage, the Congress is declaring defeat, and telling our young men and women in uniform that their work doesn’t mean anything. They are making every combat death be for naught. Not only that, but they’re condemning more soldiers to die for nothing by keeping them in the combat zone for many more months, even after the politicians have signed the surrender papers.

If the war is truly lost, why the arbitrary deadline months in the future? Why not pull out right now, and save as many lives as possible? I’ll tell you why. It’s because the Democrats in Congress don’t give a damn about our soldiers. They care about having a talking point for the 2008 election. They want more of our soldiers to die in combat, so they can stand up on their soapboxes and snivel and whine about the poor, dying soldiers that they kept over there to die to win votes!

If the war is truly lost, pull the troops home now. No waiting, no timetable. Just get out! No pathetic half-measures, designed to prolong the suffering and add to the death toll.

With that said, I do not believe we have lost, yet. This war is still up in the air, but assigning an arbitrary deadline is a prescription for defeat. If we tell the enemy that we will be fleeing at a given date, we are letting them know that they will win if they just lay low and wait it out.

An arbitrary withdrawal also undermines the authority of our military strategists, who should be running this war. The greatest problem with this war, and several others in the past, is that arrogant politicians have been setting policy and running things from their cushy offices, rather than the generals in the field. Our military is not choosing how to run things so much as elected bureaucrats who have never seen combat. The Congress should stay out of the decision making process when it comes to military action.

I have two words to say to every Congressman who voted to create defeat in Iraq, but I will refrain from soiling these fine pages with such vulgarity. Instead, I will state the obvious, that they are cowards, and care nothing for the lives of our soldiers, so long as they can buy votes with the blood of Americans! They are utterly despicable, and everyone who voted for the withdrawal deadline deserves to be kicked out of office! How about we set a deadline for that? November 4th, 2008 sounds good to me!