What the Heck was I Thinking!?

Here’s the link to the National Republican Senatorial Committee pledge to sign.

The text of the pledge is below:

If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.

 This in the New York Sun: Turnaround in Baghdad:

The wider Sunni insurgency - the groups beyond Al Qaeda - is being slowly, and surely, defeated. The average insurgent today feels demoralized, disillusioned, and hunted. Those who have not been captured yet are opting for a quieter life outside of Iraq.

Slowly and surely defeated! Isn’t that what we all want? Why isn’t this being shouted from the masthead of every newspaper?

Maybe it’s because this doesn’t serve the partisan political purposes of the Left and the newspapers and TV shows that abet it.

 

Source: Turnaround in Baghdad - January 25, 2007 - The New York Sun

Dr. Sanity has posted that the change of strategy and tactics in Iraq is not the President’s last chance for success …

Actually, it is the political left’s last chance to ensure defeat in Iraq. That is their goal; it has always been their goal; and now they are quite desperate to achieve that goal. That is why all the stops have been pulled out in their reckless criticisms and defeatist rhetoric

I hadn’t thought of it that way, but she’s right! If the past several years of ankle biting and tripping haven’t stopped the coalition’s efforts to defeat the Islamo-fascist terrorists, the left have got to make a surge of their own to find a way to finally stop this drive for victory.

Dr. Sanity goes on to look at the motives of the liberals. Her unflinching examination includes:

Mort Kondrake commented last night on the Fox News All-Stars that he didn’t understand why the Democrats, having strongly and repeatedly made their point about how they feel about Iraq, the “surge”, and Bush; don’t now just “back off” and let events unfold to prove them correct? Clearly, that is what those who are patriotic and support the troops would do at this time.

His question is easy to answer. It doesn’t take either a rocket scientist or a psychiatrist to figure out their motives.

The left is not content to let “events unfold”, because left to their own devices, events just might not come to–as Webb put it in his response to the SOTU for the Democrats–”the proper conclusion.”

The left both in political circles and in the press believe that if they can just keep pushing on this defeat button, that the American public will come to believe it and give up. The troops forward can’t fight that war - they aren’t allowed to make a lot of public comments about the press and political leaders, and they don’t get the time in front of the cameras to counter all the wiser heads in the home media front.

As Dr. Sanity quotes Sigmund, Carl and Alfred,

The media and those in opposition want us to leave Iraq now, because they understand that in the end, the Bush administration’s policies of wanting to bring freedom to the region will be seen as a worthwhile effort and one to be emulated. The media and virulent objectors to this administration’s policies know they will be held to account for their perfidy.

As always, Dr. Sanity’s posts leave me thinking about what is really going on and where I stand on issues. The choices are very clear

Source: Dr. Sanity: THE LEFT’S LAST CHANCE IN IRAQ