Just WAIT until the Moms of Fury hear about this one!
For quite some time, the Democrats, like House Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid, have been squawking that "the war is lost – let’s run!". Sorrowfully, so have our two Democrat Congressman, Hodes and Shea-Porter.
Problem is, the evidence on the ground, the empirical evidence, the hard truth is, we are winning. Slowly, carefully, and not without pitfalls, the Iraqis are standing up, the Awakening is and has taken hold, and Maliki has grown a pair – evidence in Basra these past few weeks proves it.
So, what do you do when yer kvetching is just "dust in the wind"? Of COURSE! Just silence the font of those that actually know what’s going on! And when the media starts reporting that gag order, you know something is rotten in Denmark for the Dems:
Safe From TruthAnti-Militarism: House Democrats have passed a bill to stifle the good news that we’re winning in Iraq. They are so invested in losing that they apparently fear a popular backlash against them from victory.
Congress seems to be acting out the role of Col. Nathan R. Jessep, played by Jack Nicholson in the film "A Few Good Men." When pinned in covering up a murder, Nicholson famously yells back at Tom Cruise, playing the interrogating attorney: "You can’t handle the truth!"
Democrats have decided this election year that American voters can’t handle the fact that victory in Iraq is at hand.
In its passage last week of the defense policy bill, the House issued a prohibition against the Pentagon’s "concerted effort to propagandize" the American public regarding the Iraq War.
before he had testified.
That’s Right! Paul Hodes!
It came in the form of an amendment authored by Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., which also would authorize an investigation of the Defense Department’s "propaganda" efforts by the Government Accountability Office.
Words just escape me as to the folly of this. Imagine that, a politically motivated attempt of saving face insinuating that the military is lying. Truth – the Dems can’t handle the truth!
And they wonder why Congress has 1/2 the approval rating that the President has?
Hodes’ addition to the bill passed by voice vote and the overall bill passed the House by a large margin. The Senate will wait until after the holiday recess to consider it.
It’s not as if the Pentagon brass, as they wage a global war on terrorism, don’t have better things to do than sit down and answer foolish questions about public relations operations from a bunch of GAO bean-counters.
Besides, haven’t congressional Democrats insisted all these years that it wasn’t the military they had a problem with regarding the Iraq War? Haven’t they been saying how much they support those in uniform, that our military leaders really agreed with Democrats that Iraq was unwinnable, and that it was only the civilians who run war policy in the Bush administration they were attacking?
According to Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., the Hodes provision could end up classifying even the U.S. Marines’ slogan, "The Few, the Proud, the Marines," as a "concerted effort to propagandize" in violation of the law.
Now THAT’S a fight I’d pay good money to see – a cage match between the Marines and Hodes! I just cannot see the Marines giving up their slogan to this guy. Heck, he couldn’t even hold his own against the Moms of Fury!
Or when the Washington Post that same year imperiled national security by revealing the secret CIA interrogation program in which terrorist detainees were taken to foreign prisons where information that could prevent future attacks was extracted?
Democrats seem to be motivated largely by the notion that those who wear, or have worn, the uniform of the U.S. armed forces cannot be trusted. Witness Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, last week outrageously suggesting that presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain looks at everything "from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous."
As will be obvious again on this Memorial Day, most Americans trust and appreciate our servicemen and women. Their wrath is sure to fall on those who pass laws that presume them to be liars.
(H/T: Mike P)
