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House GOP Pushes Troops Debate
This is from FoxNews:
House Republicans engineered an election-year debate on Iraq to show support for U.S. troops and force lawmakers, particularly Democrats, to take a position on withdrawing American forces from a conflict that is in its fourth year.The debate culminates Friday, when the House votes on a nonbinding resolution that praises U.S. troops, labels the Iraq war part of the larger global fight against terrorism and says an "arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment" of troops is not in the national interest.
"When our freedom is challenged, Americans do not run," House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said.
"This war is a failed policy of the Bush administration," countered House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California. "We need a new direction in Iraq."
Gotta love Nancy Pelosi. It isn't hard to figure out the "new direction in Iraq" she is thinking of is that of retreat and surrender.
The House Republicans, as usual, have the war in Iraq right. It is the main battle front on the Global War on Terror, and if we pull out now, it will send a message to al-Qaeda that the U.S. lacks the will to go the distance. We all ready know that most of the Democrats are lacking the guts and moral fortitude to complete the job.
Here's another choice quote from the piece:
Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., stuck to the GOP script, saying, "In this fight for the future of peace, freedom and democracy in the Middle East and around the globe, winning should be our only option."
I couldn't agree more with the good Congressman from Georgia.
The cut-and-run policy of the left, the policy of surrender, will garner only contempt, not just from the terrorists we are fighting, but from the world as a whole. Staying and winning is not just the only option, as Gingrey put it, it is the right (as in correct, not conservative) option, and the best option.
The Dems call this tactic of pushing a debate on supporting the troops as an election year tactic. SO WHAT! Some of them will be caught in a "Damned if they do, damned if they don't" situation regardless of how they vote. The people have a right to know what our representatives think.