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Pelosi Moonbats On Iraq
Nancy Pelosi is Moonbatting about the military operations in Iraq yet again. From Yahoo News:
"The Bush-Petraeus plan of 130,000 Americans in Iraq for 10 more years is not a reduction in our footprint; it is an insult to the intelligence of the American people to call that a new direction. It is a status quo plan that tells the Iraqi government that they do not need to change."The American people long ago rejected the President's plan to stay in Iraq, which is why they voted for a New Direction in 2006. Yet, with his veto pen and the 60-vote hurdle in the Senate, the President is preventing the redeployment of our troops, the rebuilding of our military, and the refocusing of our nation's efforts on fighting terrorism."
Let's see, we have about 160,000 troops there now with the surge fully implemented. General Petreus stated that we will soon be able to draw the troop levels back down to pre-surge level. So that will be a 20% reduction in our "footprint" which seems to be the only thing that San Fran Nan and her puppet-masters at MoveOn.org and Code Pink are interested in: getting our troops out and letting the Islamofacists and terrorists have Iraq.
That is the fundamental difference between those of us on the right and those on the left, like MoveOn.org. We want to achieve victory in Iraq and leave behind a functioning democracy capable of protecting the liberties of its citizens. The left wants to turn it back over to mass-murdering thugs who will then eliminate a million plus Iraqis in retaliation for their working with the U.S. led coalition that is attempting to establish said democracy.
This is not to say that peace is not patriotic. It is. Victory is also patriotic.
What would the world be like if, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and invaded the Philippines, the United States said: Well, okay, we tried to save the Philippines, it was lost, we'll let Japan have it. And China as well. What would have happened if, after we lost our first battle with the German Afrika Korps at Kasserine Pass, we said: Well, Germany is too tough for us to handle. Let them have Europe. The end result would have looked much like what happened to Southeast Asia after we abandoned South Vietnam, thanks to the Democrats. Millions died. Except it wouldn't have been just a few million but tens of millions.
This is true of Iraq if we abandon them at this point. A million people will die, while millions more will flee that country to avoid liquidation.
Pelosi rants about how this may lead to a 10-year involvement in Iraq. Guess what, Nancy. We've been in Kosovo for that long already. There is still violence occurring there on a regular basis. It just doesn't get the press that Iraq does. Yet the calls to bring our troops home, and we have thousands over there still, are not made.
We also have some 60,000 troops as an occupying force in Germany. Yet the left seems to be okay with that occupation, as it is with our troops in Italy, Japan and South Korea. How about we reduce our "footprint" in some of those countries? Or is it only Iraq that Pelosi and her puppet-masters despise our having troops in, because they are doing something truly honorable in that country.
As for the 60-vote threshold in the Senate, Pelosi has her own party leadership to thank for that one. They set the tone of hostility in the Senate while there was a Republican Majority by forcing the 60-vote threshold on judicial appointments. They made their bed, now let them sleep in it.
As for Iraq, I have no doubt that we can be victorious, The question has always been how to achieve. It sounds as though Petreus has things on a track that may well succeed if it is allowed to work. Remember he said it would take at least six months once the surge is fully in effect, As that took place in Mid-June, which means he should have at least three more months to achieve his goals.
Of course in a society that has become used to having instant gratification, that will seem like an eternity. It may also seem so to the troops serving in Iraq. But then they should be allowed to feel that way as they are shouldering the burden of success, not Chickendove of the House Nancy Pelosi.
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