President Bush announced the success in the Anbar Providence in Iraq. It was also the first time he truly mentioned withdrawing troops showing his desire to get this over with and to get them home. He stated that when and only when the success is matched across Iraq is when we can start withdrawing troops. Well, I have no problem with that! As with anyone else, I want our troops home and safe.
But the question is, what are Ron Paul supporters and liberals going to say about this? Will they finally acknowledge just a little support while respectively holding onto their anti-war stance?
Or will they politicize the President’s remarks to campaign for 2008 while disrespectively clutching onto their Anti-Bush stance?
We got a small hint from Jim Manley, spokesperson for Harry Reid:
“Despite this massive P.R. operation, the American people are still demanding a new strategy”
Yep…that’s what I thought they’d say.
Can you imagine the cringe factor within the Democratic party if their leader or his spokespeople had to actually admit success in Iraq?
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Well, when people see the troops cheering for the guy they love, me included, they will realize exactly how much lack of credibility their anti-war view is when they aren’t even the person on the ground.
I don’t know how anyone can be anti-war, when the very people putting their lives on the line are the one’s cheering the President.
It escapes me, but I see the people coming back and they tell me stories of success in Iraq.
Does support for the troops only go to the point where they tell you something you don’t want to hear?
That to me is close minded and irresponsible.
Hey, Steve, I guess Kanye “Race-baiter” West was right.
Bush hates black people so much that he shook the hand of a black man.
Bush is just full of contradictions!
(All of the above is sarcasm.)
I actually started this comment twice, but was having a hard time trying to discuss the subject because it hits very close to home and is very frustrating. But it absolutely relates to the issue of hating Bush and the war no matter what.
When hubby was in Iraq, he was a part of the Iraq Survey Group (not to be confused with the geriatric “smarter-than-thou” fest that was the Iraq Study Group), which had the mission of looking for the WMD.
When I had my own blog, my husband wrote about his experiences: what he saw, what he did, what the evidence that he himself found led him to believe (what he could write about as related to classified restrictions, that is).
For this, we were rewarded with comment after comment calling my husband all sorts of names, liar, shill, chickenhawk (explain THAT one!), stupid, and so on and so forth. And all because he related something that people did not agree with and did not uphold their political opinion about Iraq – damn the evidence.
It spoke volumes to me, and it did nothing to give me hope that people would decide based on facts rather than hysterical opinion.
AIRFORCEWIFE, don’t listen to those people.
When history is written about this time, I want to be on the side that is right, and the side that says, “Yes, the 1/3 of us who supported our President and our TROOPS, were right. WE WERE RIGHT!”
But, you know what? The troops today will hold their heads high, just as the troops during WWII and will not speak of it for the rest of their lives. That is the honor that our troops hold in high esteem.
Actions will speak louder than words!
Airforce that was an excellent story about how the “anti-Bush” will stop at nothing.
I actually have my own theory of liberal-hate against Bush that remains to stem from his defeat of Gore in 2000.
Whether or not we ever went to war, they still would have hated him. If you ever have any writings you would like Philip or I to post, please let me know. I love your comments.
Devil Dog only re-affirms the position of brave men like your husband in regards to their honor.
Steve, you are correct, sir.
I have been telling my fellow conservatives and lambasting my liberal friends (oh, God!) that they, like you said, would have hated Bush no matter what. They never got over the 2000 election. They never had any intention of bipartisanship and they just kept their teeth locked in his flesh since he started.
I think this election will come down to things like HONOR. John McCain, in the Rep debate on Wed night, said it eloquently when he spoke of the troops. He brought the focus back to why we have to win in Iraq.
It is all about HONOR!
AFW, I can only imagine how assaulted you would feel by blogging a message such as your “Hubby’s” (Thanking him for his service) reports from the field.
Bush-Haters, led by Schumer, Kerry, Reid and Pelosi, have taken on the symptoms of terrorists that was used by the crime-writer Ovid Demarisere’s “There’s nothing more savage than an educated man (person) with a personal grievance that he (she) considers a cosmic wrong.”
When they can’t make the impact they desire, they choose to demoralize down the line. Only, in virtue of sacrifice, it’s up the line. For who has given more than those in uniform.
May those that serve in uniform be acknowledged first in any prayers or thoughtful hopes; without which we would not even have the right of that privacy.
SHAWMUT, hell, bin Laden also wants the war to end, just like the Dems.
Maybe, Devil Dog.
But what would they, the ‘Bin Demons’ talk ..around..?
Let’s prevail, just to piss them off.