Posted by
Roxanna M. on Wednesday, August 01, 2007 4:00:58 PM
What a sad day in America. A member of Congress actually walked out on a briefing about U.S. progress in a war that has not only cost billions of dollars and taken the lives of some three thousand Americans, but is the front in the war on Islamofascism, the Left’s denials notwithstanding.
What could have possibly caused Rep. Nancy Boyda (D-KS) to leave such an important meeting? She was hearing good news, and Democrats aren’t having any of that. All they want to hear is that the war is failing, because in their limited imaginations that translates to Bush is failing. The fact that it also translates to America is failing is beyond their ability to grasp.
Ms. Boyda said that she just couldn’t listen any more to talk that made it sound like Iraq is “a place that I might take the family for a vacation - things are going so well . . .”. Nobody in their right mind would compare Iraq to Disneyland, and Ms. Boyda’s comments show that the level of fear on the left is rising, along with their hysteria.
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) seconded the notion when he said that a positive report on the surge would split the Democrats in the House and impede his party’s efforts to press for a timetable to end the war. He was also heard to say that a positive report would be “a real big problem for us.”
Imagine that. How could good news from the front be a problem? What is so wrong with these people that they are pinning their political fortunes on their own country’s defeat? How could they possibly consider themselves worthy to lead this country when they are in denial on so monumentally important an issue?
Ms. Boyda went on to say that “those kinds of comments will, in fact, show up in the media and further divide this country . . .” No, Ms. Boyda, good news from the front will once again unite this country behind its President, and that is simply intolerable to the party of tolerance.
America may be sick of this war, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to win it. We haven’t won a war since 1945. We’re due.
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P.S. And I thought my blog of yesterday was just satire.