Day: July 31, 2006

Chuck, for the good of the Republican party, please, cross the aisle and take a seat. Any seat.

We’ll even trade you for Lieberman.

Twelve House Democrats signed a letter and sent it to President Bush urging a troop withdrawal in Iraq. The WaPo calls this unity. I call it weak minded political posturing.

After months of struggling to forge a unified stance on the Iraq war, top congressional Democrats joined voices yesterday to call on President Bush to begin withdrawing U.S. troops by the end of the year and to “transition to a more limited mission” in the war-torn nation.

With the midterm elections three months away, and Democrats seeing public discontent over Iraq as their best chance for retaking the House or Senate, a dozen key lawmakers told Bush in a letter: “In the interests of American national security, our troops and our taxpayers, the open-ended commitment in Iraq that you have embraced cannot and should not be sustained. . . . We need to take a new direction.”

The Washington Post, in an attempt to add legitimacy to this show of timidity, mentions that “a number of GOP lawmakers are joining Democrats in criticizing the war’s progress.”

All they can pull out are quotes from two of the biggest Rhino’s in D.C. Hardly a landslide of discontent.

Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) last week called Iraq “an absolute replay of Vietnam.” Rep. Gil Gutknecht (R-Minn.) recently returned from Iraq with a call for U.S. troops to pull out.

Zzzzzzz…

This issue is dead on arrival. It simply doesn’t resonate with a majority of Americans. Sure, when asked politically biased strategically worded questions, a pollster can manufacture a majority of adults who admit that the U.S. led effort in Iraq could have gone better and that we should leave the country as soon as necessary, but that hardly means quitting. It doesn’t mean time table. It doesn’t mean cut and run. It means we should leave Iraq the day the job is complete and not another day longer. The reality is, Americans want to win, not lose. We like to finish what we started, not leave in the middle of the game. We take pride in not being cowards.

The Dems have given up on Iraq and they’ve given up on our troops. To most Americans, that sounds a lot like surrender.

When deranged, white flag waving frogs are paraded in front of the media, anything can happen.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, whose country is a main backer of Hezbollah, met his French counterpart in Beirut on Monday for talks on resolving the crisis in Lebanon.

French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said earlier on Monday in Beirut it was important to maintain contacts with Tehran as part of efforts to resolve the crisis in Lebanon, where Hezbollah and Israel have been at war for nearly three weeks.

Iran is a significant, respected player in the Middle East which is playing a stabilizing role, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said earlier Monday in Beirut.

“It was clear that we could never accept a destabilization of Lebanon, which could lead to a destabilization of the region,” Douste-Blazy said in Beirut.

“In the region there is of course a country such as Iran – a great country, a great people and a great civilization which is respected and which plays a stabilizing role in the region,” he told a news conference.

Douste-Blazy wasn’t the only guy talkin’ psychobabble to reporters. French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin joined in.

de Villepin welcomed Monday a pledge by Israel to suspend air strikes in Lebanon for 48 hours but said it was not enough.

“It is, for France, a first step, but an insufficient step given the current stakes,” he told reporters.

“We must all together redouble our efforts to achieve the immediate cessation of hostilities requested by the president,” de Villepin added.

What he means to say is…Israel should stop defending itself against the hundreds of Hezbollah fired (Iranian built) rockets that fall daily on it’s northern cities. Then, everything would be good.

How brilliant.

Have you seen these pictures yet? What about this guy? Have you seen him before? If you have, and you (like most people) were emotionally wracked by the severity of the scenes depicted, then congratulations are in order. You now belong to a large club of people who have been sucked in by one of the most egregious examples of a modern day war propaganda machine, courtesy of Hezbollah.

Are you outraged? You should be.

Welcome to Hezbollywood, where every member of the MSM receives an “E” class ticket.