{"id":1675,"date":"2007-11-21T07:17:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T12:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2007-11-21T07:37:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T12:37:18","slug":"1675","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1675","title":{"rendered":"The Generalissimo Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duane at Radioblogger, by way of dinging on the Dems’ latest attempt at a “Cut and Run” bill, writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A listener sent this picture and e-mail a little bit ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This is John Gebhardt in Iraq. His wife Mindy reports that this little girl’s entire family was executed. The insurgents intended on executing this little girl, too. In fact, they tried by shooting her in the head. But miraculously, this little girl lived, but is obviously suffering while her body tries to heal. She cries and moans incessantly, but John is able to calm her. The nurses where she’s being treated say John’s the only one she clings to. So John and this little Iraqi girl have slept for the last four nights in that chair so that she can continue to heal after her injury.<\/p>\n

Not exactly Abu Ghraib-like, so it’s doubtful you’ll ever see this hit the nightly newscast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Against this…:<\/p>\n

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Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, is planning on trying once again this week to choke progress before it has a chance to thrive and prosper by passing legislation to give the military a quarter of the money needed to fund the effort in Iraq, and require that if the token dollar amount is appropriated, an orderly withdrawal begins immediately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, sending them a “hide ’til…” date.<\/p>\n

…Mitch McConnell and the rest of the Republicans ought to have a stronger hand to defeat this more than ever before because of the clear evidence of progress and success in Iraq. There is no need to change the course in Iraq, to use the tired phrase of Harry Reid, when the course in Iraq is working demonstrably. The Republicans should use the 60 vote rule to kill this legislation the moment it comes to the floor. Republicans would do well to show they are more determined to win than the Democrats are determined to declare defeat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Senator Coleman…?<\/p>\n

And once the bill is killed, it is imperative for George W. Bush to use the bully pulpit and call this stunt for what it is. He should go to the American people and start showing the progress that is being made, the progress that isn’t being shown in the mainstream media, and challenge the Congress directly to stop playing games with the American military while they are fighting, winning and making a real difference abroad, and pass a clean appropriations bill immediately. And he should keep saying it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that’d be the problem. The President and the Administration have been a consistent no-show in the PR battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Duane at Radioblogger, by way of dinging on the Dems’ latest attempt at a “Cut and Run” bill, writes: A listener sent this picture and e-mail a little bit ago. This is John Gebhardt in Iraq. His wife Mindy reports that this little girl’s entire family was executed. The insurgents intended on executing this little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}