{"id":51,"date":"2006-11-15T11:28:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T15:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/dems-try-to-enforce-policy-on-iraq\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T13:18:18","slug":"dems-try-to-enforce-policy-on-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Dems try to enforce policy on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With nary a moment of military service, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,229540,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Democrats suddenly think they&#8217;re commanding generals<\/a> (the only civilian with &#8220;commander&#8221; in his title is the President). They want to convince the real generals that they need to buck the administration&#8217;s policies in Iraq. Isn&#8217;t that tantamount to mutiny? Have the Democrats finally crossed the line and taken up the banner of sedition along with everything else they&#8217;ve done to this country?<\/p>\n<p>From the FNC story;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I would hope and expect that we&#8217;re going to be given some indication at that hearing that they see the need to change direction,&#8221; said Sen. Carl Levin, who will take control of the Senate Armed Services Committee next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why should Levin think that the uniformed services commanders are going to have different opinions suddenly? They&#8217;re the people who&#8217;ve been advising Rumsfeld and the President all these years.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re not going to change their minds just because a whole boatload of people voted. An election doesn&#8217;t change the tactical situation &#8211; just the political situation. Its clear to me that Democrats haven&#8217;t read Von Clauswitz, Tsun Tsu or the Constitution lately.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My displeasure with the president, he doesn&#8217;t understand the urgency of this,&#8221; incoming Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"javascript:siteSearch('Harry Reid');\"><strong>Harry Reid<\/strong><\/a> told The Washington Post. &#8220;It&#8217;s all victory for him, but I don&#8217;t know what that means anymore in Iraq. I do know what we are doing now doesn&#8217;t work.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Harry Reid is right on both counts &#8211; he doesn&#8217;t know what victory means since he&#8217;s a defeatist crybaby. And what he is indeed doing isn&#8217;t working. Talking down the US troops in the media, calling our mission in Iraq wrong-headed isn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Democrats should yank their heads from their fourth-points-of-contact and give our troops a little support with their words and deeds and take away the hope the Islamofacists have won in\u00c2\u00a0our last election that we&#8217;re going to cut and run. That&#8217;s the only reason those thugs have maintained their violence and, well&#8230;thuggery. The Democrats have given them their only chance for victory.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it&#8217;s not the generals who have to be convinced, it&#8217;s the President. And given the continuing anti-Bush rhetoric in the past week, they better come up with some better methods instead of their crybaby whining and feet-stomping.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Abizaid\" target=\"_blank\">General John Abzaid&#8217;s<\/a> remark that he is confident that the US military can stabilize Iraq and warning against timetable withdrawals, <a href=\"http:\/\/levin.senate.gov\/contact\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Levin<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0remarks \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,229540,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported by FNC<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\">&#8220;We cannot save the Iraqis from themselves. The only way for Iraqi leaders to squarely face that reality is for President Bush to tell them that the United States will begin a phased redeployment of our forces within four to six months.&#8221;<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\">So Levin is encouraging the commanders to mutiny against their commander-in-chief. Will they purge the ranks until they get some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Shinseki\" target=\"_blank\">Shinseki<\/a>s in charge? <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Despite the word from experts, Democrats are pushing forward with their cut and run strategy &#8211; surrender at all costs. 2008 is only two years away. When Iraq falls into the abyss of Islamofacism, will the Democrats admit their failures?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With nary a moment of military service, Democrats suddenly think they&#8217;re commanding generals (the only civilian &hellip; <a title=\"Dems try to enforce policy on Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dems try to enforce policy on Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}