COWARDS GIVE UP ON GIS - & GIVE IN TO EVIL
By RALPH PETERS
NY POST

February 17, 2007 -- PROVIDING aid and comfort to the enemy in wartime is treason. It's not "just politics." It's treason.
And signaling our enemies that Congress wants them to win isn't "supporting our troops."

The "nonbinding resolution" telling the world that we intend to surrender to terrorism and abandon Iraq may be the most disgraceful congressional action since the Democratic Party united to defend slavery.

The vote was a huge morale booster for al Qaeda, for Iraq's Sunni insurgents, and for the worst of the Shia militias.

The message Congress just sent to them all was, "Hold on, we'll stop the surge, we're going to leave - and you can slaughter the innocent with our blessing."

We've reached a low point in the history of our government when a substantial number of legislators would welcome an American defeat in Iraq for domestic political advantage.

Yes, some members voted their conscience. But does anyone believe they were in the majority?

This troop surge might not work. We can't know yet. But we can be damned sure that the shameful action taken on the Hill while our troops are fighting isn't going to help.

And a word about those troops: It's going to come as a shock to the massive egos in Congress, but this resolution won't hurt morale - for the simple reason that our men and women in uniform have such low expectations of our politicians that they'll shrug this off as business as usual.

This resolution has teeth, though: It's going to bite our combat commanders. By undermining their credibility and shaking the trust of their Iraqi counterparts, it makes it far tougher to build the alliances that might give Iraq a chance.

If you were an Iraqi, would you be willing to trust Americans and risk your life after the United States Congress voted to abandon you?

Now that Donald Rumsfeld's gone, the Democrats are doing just what they pilloried the former Secretary of Defense for doing: Denying battlefield commanders the troops and resources they need.

Congresswoman Pelosi, have you no shame?

As a former soldier who still spends a good bit of time with those in uniform, what infuriates me personally is the Doublespeak, Stalin-Prize lie that undercutting our troops and encouraging our enemies is really a way to "support our troops."

As for bringing them home, why not respect the vote the troops themselves are taking: Sustained re-enlistment rates have been at a record high.

And our soldiers and Marines know they'll go back to Iraq or Afghanistan. And no, Senator Kerry, it's not because they're too stupid to get a "real" job like yours or because they're "mercenaries." Some Americans still believe in America.

If our troops are willing to fight this bitter war, how dare Congress knife them in the back?

On Thursday night, I was in Nashville as a guest of the 506th Regimental Combat Team - with whom I'd spent all too brief a time in Baghdad.

The occasion was their welcome-home ball, complete with dress uniforms spangled with awards for bravery. Proud spouses sat beside their returned warriors.

Of course, those soldiers were glad to be home with their loved ones. But they also know they'll go back to one theater of war or another - and no one complained.

They share a value that Congress has forgotten: duty. They're willing to bear the weight of the world on their shoulders. Because they know that freedom has a price.

As you entered the ballroom for the event, the first thing you saw was a line of 34 photographs. A single white candle softly lit each frame. Those were the members of the 506th who didn't come home.

Soldiers honor their dead. It's the least Congress could do to honor the living men and women in uniform.

You don't support our troops by supporting our enemies.

Ralph Peters' latest book is "Never Quit The Fight."

SteveK, great post here and I hope more read it.

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Go Sooners

great article and great find there steve.......

Treason and Traitors............ Where is the outrage....

There will be no outrage, just liberals positioning themselves.

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Go Sooners

The war on terrorism & Iraq are two different things.
The fact that there are a bunch of extremists fighting our military in Iraq is because we chose to CREATE a front to fight our never ending self created enemy. That is sickening & psychotic.

Our leaving or our staying is all apart of a policy of stupidity at it's most banal
& a policy of unmitigated selfish small minded ignorant Evil at it's most extreme.
In reality it's a bit of both but it is not the War on Terrorism. It is the Construct on terrorist Distraction.
It was & is not the wisest use of our resources. On the War On Terror.

To stand there with the argument that the Neocons, the lock step think tank lemming frat boys & the Administration stirs up a hornets nest then says what are you going to do about it, is quite simply a pricks mentality. The treason is the Prick that stirs up a self created perpetual war & then tells any & everybody that challenges the prick that they are aiding & abetting the hornets.
I have a simple response to pricks, fuck you.

The Treason is our taking most of our resources out of Afghanistan & putting them in Iraq.
The Treason is the President saying I don't know where Ben Laden is, I don't really care.

Fucking hornet stirring pricks. Why don't you arm chair warriors go fight your hornets nest. The rest of the rational human race is trying to get us back to reality & stay on point against cult extremists. Not creating something for them to self legitimize themselves.

It's fucking psychotic & so are all that suck in this mental puss.

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Thank you Crow, I hope the Senate was listening!!!!

Thank you Crow...for saying what needs to be said.

great post, thanks for posting it.

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Jane Fonda, and John Kerry, can be credited with making treason 'fashonable.' Though guilty by ANY definition they both remain the darlings of the Left for their actions.
Once again the Left can stab the fighting man in the back, but now they always add "We love the soldiers, just hate the war."

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