Posted by
Craig Freeborn on Monday, January 29, 2007 12:37:01 AM
On January 10, President Bush displayed the results of his… er…intestinal transplant surgery and announced to the nation that he was changing the rules of engagement that have hamstrung our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan for far too long. At the same time, he committed an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq. These troops are part of a specific plan to turn the tide in this theater of the war on radical Islam – parts of which he shared with the American public. Our troops are even now launching attacks on Sunni insurgent strongholds, reining in al-Sadr’s militia, and killing or capturing Iranian “operatives” inside Iraq.
Almost immediately, however, the newly empowered Democrats denounced what they labeled an “escalation of hostilities” – invoking memories of our national nightmare in Vietnam.
Now, just as these forces are being deployed, Senate Democrats are escalating their own political war by proposing a resolution of “non-support” for our troops.
Now you may feel – as do I – that this is a long time coming, and that the handling of the war has been bungled. But even for those who have honest objections to this or any other war, what possible benefit to the country or to our troops can this resolution have? We are at war. The troops are in theater. The terrorists are listening. Will they not delight in hearing that the United States Senate passed a resolution of non-support for the very troops they are fighting? Is this not the definition of giving aid and comfort to the enemy?
Even worse, a handful of Republicans are suggesting that they will vote for this resolution – Republicans like Chuck Hagel, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, and Lindsey Graham. Some of whom are members of the “Gang of Fourteen” and all of whom have thumbed their noses at the conservative base many times before.
Well this time, conservatives are mad as hell and they aren’t going to take it any more.
Approximately 72 hours ago, Freeborn Americans from around the country started signing an on-line petition known as the Pledge. In that short amount of time, we have almost 30,000 signatures – and the number is quickly growing
We can’t change Congress for two more years, but we can – and we have – started a drive to rid the party of the kind of RINO who will jeopardize our troops for political gain.
Kick sand in my face and you’ll make me mad, but kick sand in the faces of American forces fighting Islamofascists and I’ll do everything in my power to kick your sorry butts out of the Senate. And I urge everyone who reads this to do the same.
The Pledge can be signed at http://www.thenrscpledge.com/.