Barney Frank, House Financial Services Chairman, has recently shown his utter lack of concern for the American military person in Iraq. That is the only conclusion you could possibly come to with his announcement that he will defund the Iraq war under a Democratic president.
“I will move to cut funding immediately,” said Frank. “I have already done that. I voted against the war and voted to cut the funding. I would hope a Democratic president would put in place a plan that would begin a total withdrawal.”
Irrespective of the complete geopolitical disaster this would cause in the Middle East in general, and the chaos that would ensue in Iraq with Frank’s “immediate withdrawal”, the impact on the American military would be catastrophic. Any cuts in funding, prior to the intended consequence of forcing the generals to withdraw forces, would impact the ability of our military folks in Iraq to protect themselves as units become forced to do more with less. Money currently used to make life bearable - movies, phone calls, the occasional fast food run, computer services, etc. - those things would disappear first. The ability to spread goodwill in the neighborhoods through the use of toys, soccer balls, candy, books, shoes, and other community project items will remove the potential for our soldiers to be anything other than armed occupiers. Today, they can also help build community.
Barney Frank sits in Washington and looks down from Mt Olympus at Iraq and makes decisions without any thought to how those decisions impact anything except his sense of how things should be. This elitist moron needs to find something else to occupy his mind. I suggest he take up crochet and leave the serious business of war and peace to the professionals.
I know I have said this 1000 times in the last 7 years, but if you take the leftist message on any given topic to its furthest logical conclusion, you end up in a circle.
Robert Scheer writes in the San Francisco Chronicle,
Are the media dumb or just out to lunch? Sorry to be intemperate, but how else can one explain the meager attention paid to the truly historic visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Iraq? Not only is he the first Mideast head of state to visit the country since its alleged liberation, but the very warm official welcome offered by the Iraqi government to the most vociferous critic of the United States speaks volumes to the abject failure of the Bush doctrine.
In that the “Bush doctrine” has been to have to beg the Democrats in congress to pass spending legislation that supports increased military activity in Iraq. Or that generals have to sit before one hostile congressional committee after another and listen to Democrats rail against the every effort to create stability in Iraq. Maybe it’s the way the Democrats have increased the ability of Ahmedinajad to show his face, not only in Iraq, but in the United States by allowing a highly political NIE to deter a hard-line diplomatic tone against ” the most vociferous critic of the United States”. Maybe it is all of those calls for the United States to take a “wait and see” attitude toward those who want to kill us - even those sponsored by Iran.
If we fail in Iraq it won’t be because we have not been dynamic enough. It won’t be because we have not learned how to handle situations which crop up from an invasion of a hostile nation and applied those as lessons-learned with a resultant success. If we fail, it won’t be because we didn’t recognize mistakes and take necessary action to resolve them. If we fail, it is not because we did not employ the very best strategists and tacticians this country has at its disposal.
The failure, sir, is not George W Bush’s. It is the failure of the leftists in this country to identify who the true enemies of the United States are. It is the failure of the leftists in this country to understand that we cannot simply talk our enemies into submission. It is the failure of the leftists in this country to support the destruction of those who will turn the clock back 13 centuries, while also spewing forth about how “progressive” they are. Those same leftists believe we can talk to anyone and get them to see things our way because they have just never heard the arguments made in the intelligent manner that only an elitist left-winger can convey things. If we fail, it will be because leftists in this country will do anything to ensure that America is always seen as the “culprit” in anything that happens in the world.
You leftists bought the duration of this war by your resistance to doing what is necessary. If we fail in Iraq, you’ll own that too and for the same reason.
