I find it odd that although the General wears the same uniform as the troops, takes orders from those higher in his own Chain Of Command, he is separate from the troops.  If memory serves me correctly a “consensus” of those in Congress voted to make him the brains of the ongoing conflict in Iraq.  He was very clear when he discussed his plan before he was put in charge; what he intended to accomplish and how he was going to go about accomplishing the plan.  Unlike many of the politicians that called him a liar, the General actually has done what he said he was going to do, and has done it faster than anyone expected that he could.  I guess that is why the Left is befuddled.

            I would like to focus on one politician’s questions for the esteemed member of our Armed Forces.  Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton coined the phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” to describe the only way that she could believe the testimony of a highly decorated, honorable Soldier.  What has the Senator in question done to secure victory?  What has she done to prove to the American people that she could take the reins of our extremely proficient military machine?  The answer to both is nothing. 

            Moveon.org came out with an ad, subsidized by the readers of the New York Times and endorsed by the Democrat Party and Senator Clinton.  Yes, I do consider the fact that the Senator refused to distance herself from the ad an implied endorsement.  She can deny it all she wants but the fact that when she was asked to condemn the ad she would not.  For me to believe that she did not know about the ad before it was placed takes a “willing suspension of disbelief” on my part.  In other words I am calling her a liar, but that is only my opinion.

            It is fair game to play politics with policy.  The Democrats want us all to believe that they are only attacking the policy of the Republican held Whitehouse, but that is not what they have done.  They employed their favorite strategy, “the politics of personal destruction”.  What else can you call the actions of the political party that controls the Congress?  One could call it pro Al Quada propaganda. How about slanderous?  If General Petraues was a politically appointed member of the governmental beauracracy that would be one thing, but the fact that the General has worked hard through years of selfless service to achieve his current position should make immune to the political rhetoric.  The left however does not see it this way.

            Outside of riding the coattails of her husband, what exactly has Hillary done to get to where she is?  Here again the answer is nothing.  I am a firm believer that if President Clinton had not been elected to his second term of office we would not be hearing from the junior Senator from New York.  Nor would we be in the current situation with the fight against Al Quada.  I would like to hear the thoughts of the junior Senator from New York on how the last President tackled the growing threat of terrorism.

            The fringe left, who say they have bought and paid for the Democrat party like to say they support the troops.  They sure talk that talk when they feel that their patriotism is questioned.  How dare we real patriots question their support of Al Quada, I mean the troops.  Stop and think about it for a moment.  If they think that our troops are the real terrorists as Senators Kerry, Obama, Durbin, Biden, and Clinton have said in one way or another.  Maybe that is the troops they continue to support and stand behind.  It would make more sense; I mean we are killing far more of them than they are killing U.S. Service members.    They have condemned the treatment of terrorists held at various detention facilities around the world, yet they have not been very vocal about the rape, torture, beheadings or the baking of children at the hands of Al Quada.  I wonder where their outrage was.  Where are the comparisons to Hitler’s Nazis, or Pol Pots’ regime?  Listen closely to that silence you may hear a cricket or two.  You will hear those crickets because there has been no condemnation of Al Quada from the left.  Not out of Washington D.C. anyway.  And why would there be, it would be counter productive to what their “base” wants to get done.  If the Democrats started talking about winning the war Moveon.org would have a stroke.  The consequences would be huge for the Democrat party.  They would lose more seats than they may now. 

            The killing of Americans, both civilian and military, is a thing to rejoice by the left.  They make their speeches and run their ads talking about their support for our troops from one side of their mouths while calling our troops criminals with films that slander the very troops that they support from the other side of their mouths.  They go around saying that it is our fault that they want to kill us, if we only acted differently in the world these murderous thugs would turn out to be nice and caring people.  That’s why they treated Daniel Pearle as well as they did isn’t it? 

It even shows in the media coverage.  The only news that comes out of Iraq or Afghanistan is bad for the U.S., at least in the Mainstream Media (MSM).  You have to hunt down any news that does not include IED’s and suicide bombings.  I don’t believe I ever heard about the brave Iraqi man in the Al Anbar Province who killed himself by jumping on a suicide bomber that was heading straight for American Servicemen.  Nor do hear about the restoration of power and other utilities, you can find that news, just not on CNN, MSNBC, or even Fox now a days.  It won’t even make your local nightly news broadcast either.  I get my good news from three or four sites that I trust; they have a tendency of being three to five months ahead of the MSM anyway, good job Pat, Mike and Matt. 

Al Quada has killed just short of 4,000 of our brave men and women in uniform. We hear that number all the time as part of the propaganda to make us lose our hearts and leave before the job is finished.  What we do not hear is what our score in this game called the War in Iraq is.  I heard a report that the estimated enemy dead over just the past two months is around 2,500.  That’s like saying that your favorite baseball team let the visitors score four runs through half of the game, does not sound good for your team does it.  Not, without the context of how many runs your team is actually scoring.  Four Runs is nothing if you’ve scored 15 or 20 runs.  A score of 20 for the good guys and 4 for the bad guy’s sort of shows that we are really winning the war.  Why is it that the so called Fourth Estate that claims not to have any bias, only reports one teams score?  Maybe because the MSM are no longer reporters of the news, but merely the purveyors of propaganda.  The truth no longer matters the only things that matter are those things that are necessary to implementing their political agendas.  Wait; doesn’t that make them a PAC? 

I guess I will just be forced to willingly suspend my own disbelief when a liberal tells me that they “Support the Troops”!!