Planet Earth to President Bush

Gathering of Eagles ^ | July 10, 2007 | Andy McCarthy National Review

[mdittmar]

The surge has been completely manned now for only about two weeks. Yet Congress is still out to lunch and in their “don’t confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up” mode. Congress has no clue and is working up to totally abandoning the counterjihad. The next few weeks will be crucial on the ground in Iraq and Washington, D.C. We all know that the military side of this conflict is extremely important. However, we are also engaged in a war of ideas; an aspect of the war that President Bush has been all but awol/ua in prosecuting. Andy McCarthy at National Review expresses the frustration with the President’s inability or refusal to engage our enemies, both domestic and foreign, on the ideological level. Mr. McCarthy speaks for many with his post.

Planet Earth to President Bush and the Republicans:  Al Qaeda — having killed nearly 3000 Americans on 9/11 and promising to do it again — is baking 11-year-old Iraqis and serving them as cannibal fare to their own parents  The impediment between these barbarians setting up shop and civilization is OUR TROOPS.  Do you think, maybe, there might kinda, sorta be something here we could work with — yknow, assuming, just for arguments sake, of course, that we might possibly want to, um, take on the Left and rebut their insanity before we go along with all this?  Do you think maybe if you — repeatedly and convincingly — made clear to Americans what is going on over there, they might think, like, maybe we really do have to kill these savages — whose biggest target is us and who will get bigger and stronger if we leave?  Do you think the American people, no matter how unhappy they are with you and how low your approval numbers are, will be content to lose a war to al Qaeda?Is it possible that, instead of filling the media with stories about how your administration is trying to find a way out, we might possibly have you get on TV with some of the pictures Michael Yon has been publishing — and, yknow, like, friggin P-E-R-S-U-A-D-E the American people that our troops are over there for a reason that makes a difference for AMERICAN lives.I cant believe were losing to these guys — in Iraq or Washington.  Can't anybody here play this game?

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Yet Congress is still out to lunch and in their “don’t confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up” mode. Congress has no clue and is working up to totally abandoning the counterjihad.

To the democrats it's not a matter of "it's not working", or being confused by the facts.

It is true, however, that they have their minds made up; they've had their minds made up ever since they realized that Bush and the republicans have a very good chance at winning just about all elections if the main issue remained the "war on terror" or the war in Iraq, or both

The security of the country is something that the democrats are very bad at. Hence, they have to change the subject matter to something other than security or defense. That's why they need to demagogue and lie about what's really happening in Iraq or in the general war-on-terror. It's a winning issue for republicans and the democrats aren't going to let the republicans have any victories in Iraq or in the WOT. That would be detrimental to their political futures and they would sacrifice the country's security before they would allow the republicans any victories in Iraq.

Their party comes first and the security of the nation is secondary.

[mdittmar]

Great post,thank you,it reminded me of something,
When Congress Commits Treason

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Is it possible that, instead of filling the media with stories about how your administration is trying to find a way out, we might possibly have you get on TV with some of the pictures Michael Yon has been publishing — and, yknow, like, friggin P-E-R-S-U-A-D-E the American people that our troops are over there for a reason that makes a difference for AMERICAN lives.

I've been wanting that for almost 4 years. It's maddening to see this incompetence. Hell, we're still getting "New Tone".