Actions Have Consequences!

The Media is filled every day and night with the Liberal viewpoint that the war in Iraq is unwinable, and each day more elected officials at all levels of government are playing their political game of "kick the President". Pictures of the Mayor of Salt Lake City marching in an anti-war demonstration with the likes of Sean Penn, Jessie Jackson, Susan Sarandon and Maxine Waters are not bad enough news. Today that allegedly once member of the Ku Klux Klan, now the oldest living member of the United States Senate joined the cadre of naysayers about the war in Iraq. Under the direction and expense of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Mr. Byrd has sent an email to the American public which includes the following statement: "In Iraq there is no victory to be had in an enterprise that has been ill-fated from the start." Accepting this at face value this blogger has to believe that this Senator and too many other elected members of Congress has put his and his partys' personal agenda and ambitions before the welfare of our Country and the brave volunteers who are fighting Radical Islamic terrorists for US.
In the period from 1941 to 1945 his words would certainly have been condemned as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" if not treason. Instead the Media, which cost us the Vietnam war, is highlighting these self-serving politicians as patriots who simply want to save the lives of the troops.
It is appropriate and right to include a quote here from Sargent Eddie Jeffrey. This brave man is stationed in Ramadi, Iraq where he witnesses death and destruction everyday. "It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we've done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It's all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right."
Later in the same letter he says:"Americans are so concerned with politics that it is interfering with the war. They are becoming the enemy. Lets stop all the bad news, lets stand and fight. Isn't that what America is all about anyway?"
Osama bin Laden said "America is a paper tiger!" Those who should be following their oath of office to support and defend the Constitution should be ashamed of their actions. As our elected leaders, we have a right to expect more from them than the radicals who march in the streets and deface the capitol steps with spray paint.
Winning the war against terrorism will require that we understand the enemy and what they plan to do if they prevail, and demonstrating a will to prevail in what will surely be a long and costly war. Pulling our troops out will only give aid and comfort to Al Qaeda and OBL.