Politics as Usual?

Let me just take this opportunity to voice my opinion about the current political climate in this country.

The war in Iraq is not lost, as US Senator Harry Reid recently proclaimed, as if he's some military expert. If this statement is true, this means that al-Qaeda in Iraq has won.

This is all part of the propoganda machine that the left is employing as part of the "get-out-of-Iraq-no-matter-what" strategy. Why do we need out of Iraq? Because that will reflect a glaring failure of Republicans, most notably the President.

Think I'm making this up? In the words of Senator Reid himself: “We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war. Senator Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding.”

How did we come to the point in this country that a major political party would bet its fortunes on America’s losing a war?

This Iraq War funding bill is an absolute joke and the Democratic-controlled Congress should be ashamed that they are playing what amounts to a game of poker with our soldiers' money. This is abolutely unacceptable and I have no tolerance for anybody who says they support our troops and then use them for a political stunt. Last time I checked, the President is the Commander-in-Chief of the military and congress should NEVER politicize current military operations. We made this mistake in Vietnam, and this time it will have much bigger consequences...come on people, WAKE UP!!

There is only so much the US can do in the Iraq situation. The Sunni's and Shia in Iraq need to figure out how they are going to resolve their issues. The responsibility is on them. But in the meantime, we need to resolve as a country, Republicans and Democrats to stand behind our President (whether it's Bush or Hillary) and military leaders until THEY decide to bring our troops home.

Not only are we making the mistake of politicizing and embarrassing the leader of the free world, we are also playing into the hands of those who hate us, i.e. bin Laden & Co. They see our weak resolve and this emboldens them more...how can we as a country be so blind not to see this? THEY ARE DIVIDING US.

On January 8, 2006, CNN reported, “An Arabic language news network has aired a video of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant, in which he called on U.S. President George W. Bush to admit defeat in Iraq.” Well, we're half way there. If the wrong leaders continue to be elected, it's ony a matter of time that we will accept defeat as a nation.

Bush and his cabinet made mistakes in the war, which they will admit; but that does not justify the behavior of our "leaders" in Congress.

Support our troops and our mission until the President decides to bring them home. That afterall, is his job, not Harry Reid's, Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton's.
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Ok...I'm off my soap box.

Rebekah and I went to the Rangers game with our friends, David and Julia. They played the A's and amazingly won. This can be attributed to David's "lucky underwear" that he was sporting during the game. I really didn't ask for any more details. So here are the pics from the game.

In other news: I am flying out of DFW now which is awesome!! No more commutes to Chicago. The crash pad was starting to get a little raunchy with 12 guys.