{"id":3341,"date":"2008-09-21T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T16:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2008-09-21T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T19:56:36","slug":"id-rather-you-just-said-thank-you-and-went-on-your-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3341","title":{"rendered":"“I’d rather you just said thank you and went on your way”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats deliberately dishonor those that protect and provide their right to be…(I’m sorry, can someone\u00a0please help me here in the comments section with a suitably disparaging descriptor…I’m at a loss for words, hard as that may to believe).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even Barack Obama, who opposed the Iraq troop surge<\/a>, has finally acknowledged its success. But some of his fellow Democrats in Congress apparently remain unconvinced. Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin teamed up to block a vote on a bipartisan resolution “recognizing the strategic success of the troop surge in Iraq” and thanking our men and women in uniform for their efforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even Obama, presumably their\u00a0new messiah,\u00a0is better than that, essentially admitting his error in judgement without admitting his error in judgement. How thick can these people be to not at least acknowledge the political<\/em> ramifications of not<\/em> resolving to express gratitude for our troops?<\/p>\n

By late 2006, Iraq was gripped by sectarian chaos. Insurgents and death squads were killing nearly 3,000 civilians per month, and coalition forces were sustaining more than 1,200 attacks per week.<\/p>\n

Under General David Petraeus, who relinquished command of U.S. forces in Iraq on Tuesday, sectarian bloodshed has almost entirely abated, daily attacks have fallen to 25 from a high of 180 in June 2007, and overall violence has declined by more than 70%. In July, U.S. combat deaths were lower than in any month since the beginning of the war. All of the troops sent to Iraq as part of the surge have now returned home and are not being replaced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And our Congress, now dominated by Democrats can’t muster the fortitude to simply say “Thank you.”<\/p>\n

(Insert above descriptor again here please – our friends at KAR<\/a> are really good at this sort of thing – Assnozzles comes to mind?)<\/p>\n

Citing General Petraeus by name, the resolution, which is sponsored by Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman and Republican Lindsey Graham, “commends and expresses the gratitude to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces for the service, sacrifices, and heroism that made the success of the troop surge in Iraq possible.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Senators — allies of John McCain — had hoped to attach the resolution to a defense bill under consideration this week. But Mr. Reid wouldn’t allow it. Democrats have often claimed that while they may oppose the war in Iraq, they wholeheartedly support the troops. That’s a defensible position, and this resolution honoring our soldiers and Marines for a job well done gave them a chance to back up their rhetoric. Yet they still balked.<\/p>\n

The reality is that success in Iraq has confounded the political left, which placed a huge political bet on our defeat. Senator Reid famously declared the war lost in April 2007. Joe Biden introduced a resolution opposing the surge. And Hillary Clinton said the reports of progress in Iraq required “a willing suspension of disbelief.” In the Democratic narrative, our troops in Iraq are victims of a lost cause, not heroes. They’re allowed to get maimed and killed, but not to succeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Democrats: so don’t acknowledge victory in Iraq. You wouldn’t know it if you saw it any way. Don’t acknowledge George Bush, General Petraeus or John McCain.\u00a0No one expects you to change your stance on the initiation or management of the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n

But for the troops,\u00a0at least say “Thank You.” you…(again, please help me in the comments).<\/p>\n

[\/rant]<\/p>\n

If you are reading this and are or have ever served our country in the armed forces, please know that my family is profoundly grateful and exceedingly proud of your service and sacrifice.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democrats deliberately dishonor those that protect and provide their right to be…(I’m sorry, can someone\u00a0please help me here in the comments section with a suitably disparaging descriptor…I’m at a loss for words, hard as that may to believe).\u00a0 Even Barack Obama, who opposed the Iraq troop surge, has finally acknowledged its success. But some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}