{"id":267,"date":"2007-03-28T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/28\/waving-the-white-flag\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T18:47:13","slug":"waving-the-white-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Waving the white flag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course everyone has heard how the Senate feels about our troops – they loaded up their surrender flag with pork. From the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Senate Democrats scored a surprise victory yesterday in their bid to force President Bush to end the Iraq war, turning back a Republican amendment that would have struck a troop withdrawal plan from emergency military funding legislation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And everyone knows that Chuck Hagel, a former paratrooper in the mold of Hugo Chavez, is the reason that the Democrats pulled off their little coup;<\/p>\n

The defection of a prominent Republican war critic, Sen. Chuck Hagel<\/font> of Nebraska, sealed the Democrats’ win. Hagel, who opposed identical withdrawal language two weeks ago, walked onto the Senate floor an hour before the late-afternoon vote and announced that he would “not support sustaining a flawed and failing policy,” adding: “It’s now time for the Congress to step forward and establish responsible boundaries and conditions for our continued military involvement in Iraq.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep, that’s exactly how you attract Republicans to your primary effort, Chuckie. You can just keep your paws off the Airborne Day proclamation this year, thanks.<\/p>\n

And good ol’ Dingy Harry Reid is bravest when he’s surrendering as reported by S.A. Miller in the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0“We are not going to back down from the essential language in this bill,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said of the mandate that a troop pullout start almost immediately with the goal of a complete exit by next March.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep, you’ll back down from our enemies, though, won’t ya, Harry?<\/p>\n

All’ya’all\u00c2\u00a0may already know all of this. And you probably know that the president will veto anything resembling a surrender movement that crosses his desk. But, have you read Blackfive’s reactions from the troops<\/a>?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: A word from Gunnery Sgt Krueger<\/a> (in Iraq) on Powerline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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