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Susan Estrich is proving, once again, that she is a clueless Moonbat. From Blue Streak on FoxNews:

What's the point of a non-binding resolution that the president has already said would not affect his decisions?

How do you send a message to a person who isn't listening?

It is pretty presumptuous of her to assume that because the President, as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, as already stated that the troop escalation in Iraq will take place, does not mean that he is not listening. More likely than not, he is listening to representatives from all points of view. He is, however, in the position where he has to make the decisions in regards to ongoing military operations, not just in Iraq, which is the primary focus of the anti-war crowd's angst, but also in Afghanistan, Kosovo (we still have military operations there), and other hot spots around the globe.

He has listened to the leadership, and has chosen a course of action. It is the President who makes the decisions of where our armed forces are deployed. Not Congress. And not the anti-war crowd, who are attempting to turn Iraq into a 21st century Vietnam.

The resolution affirming support for the troops and opposition to the surge won't really do anything, notwithstanding the heated debate about whether to pass it. It won't stop the war, save a life, or slow the surge. Nancy Pelosi says the president can't completely ignore "the voice of the American people," but my bet is he'll try.

The reason the resolution matters is not because of its impact on the president, but on Congress; not because it will goad the president into action, but because it will force Congress to face its own fears.

The resolution matters, certainly, but not in the context that Estrich would have us believe. Such resolutions send a signal to the terrorists of al-Qaeda that America is losing its will to persevere in Iraq. The ayatollahs and mullahs of Iran are also listening, and see such resolutions as a green light to continue arming terrorists and sectarian death squads in Iraq. Syria and Hezbollah see it as an opportunity to exploit in the ongoing war against Israel, as they can expect that one day America will lose its will to support Israel as well.

Pelosi claims that the president cannot ignore "the voice of the American people," yet the only voice she hears is that of the anti-war zealots who want to see Iraq laid waste as was the country of Cambodia, in 1975, after the fall of Vietnam.

Estrich claims that such resolutions won't stop the war, nor save lives. However, they do cost lives, as violence escalates, as with the car bombing in Baghdad over the weekend in which some 60+ people were killed and attacks on bases, such as the one in which to American soldiers died, and 17 others were injured.

If Congress is to be goaded into action, let it be on to the path of winning the war and establishing free and democratic societies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and not abandon these fledgling allies to fall back into the hands of tyrants and murderers.

Many keep harping how this non-binding resolution in the House of Representatives will have no impact. They are wrong, and it is the people of Iraq, as well as our troops on the ground, who must pay the price of such folly.

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