"...If one did not know better, one might think that
Pelosi and the Democratic National Committee had
a direct line to al-Sadr's headquarters. Our national
security? All that matters is the "undead's" next
feed, the next ill-gotten political gain, the next
successful misdirection..."
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Put a ****ne on This...Madam Speaker
By Erik Rush,
April 8, 2008
Our inimical lich of a House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was at it again last
week, subtly sabotaging our military's efforts in Iraq, potentially
demoralizing and compromising our troops in a transparent election
year political ploy. On April 4, Pelosi admonished General David
Petraeus not to "put a ****ne" on developments in Iraq when he and U.S.
Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker testify before Congress this week.
Petraeus and Crocker's re****t will ostensibly illustrate Iraq's
political and military progress since their last re****t to Congress in
September.
"We have to know the real ground truths of what is happening there,
not put a ****ne on events," the Speaker said. She was referring to
recent violence in Iraq's southern city of Basra which took place
after Iraq's national forces targeted ****ite militiamen there in late
March. Said militiamen are loyal to the ****cine radical ****ite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr, whom most practical folks believe should have been
assassinated at least two years ago. The incidents in Basra resulted
in skirmishes of varying intensity in other ****ite areas and only
abated after al-Sadr ordered his followers to stand down.
The Speaker's comments were calculated to do two things: One, to
neutralize any positive effect Petraeus's re****t might have on
Americans' morale as regards the Iraq conflict, the surge in
particular. The other was prophylaxis - to neutralize, ahead of time,
the positive political effect Republicans enjoy whenever good news
comes out of Iraq. The last was an effort on Pelosi's part to remind
Americans why so many of them are considering casting votes for dyed-
in-the-wool socialist elites in the upcoming general election.
Indeed, on Sunday and Monday, the establishment press made more of the
fact that Democrats in Congress were taking a critical stance of the
Petraeus- Crocker hearings than the hearings themselves. How are
things going in Iraq, by the way? It doesn't matter; Petraeus is going
to lie anyhow.
Despite the Iran-backed thorn in the side represented by al-Sadr, the
surge has been effective relative to foreign terrorists in Iraq, who
were the source of the greatest ****tion of mayhem prior to the surge.
This is generally not good, given the establishment media and far Left
Congress's success in presenting the Iraq campaign as an abysmal
failure of the highest order and focusing Americans on their
op****tunity to anoint a new Democrat savior in November.
It then behooves congressional Democrats, Pelosi in particular given
her position, to carefully place these propagandistic land mines in
every area that has potential to draw our attention from where they
would have it. Iraq was folly, it is a quagmire, worse than Vietnam,
and any Republican administration will only promise more of the same.
Forget what the troops who have been there relate (should it escape
the press's truth-qua****ng filtration system) apropos the necessity of
our efforts; they're just stupid, brainwashed kids. Our overwhelming
desire must be to get out at any cost, or there is no motivation
whatsoever to vote for the Democrat nominee.
If one did not know better, one might think that Pelosi and the
Democratic National Committee had a direct line to al-Sadr's
headquarters. Our national security? A secondary consideration. The
troops and Iraqi citizens who might be maimed or die as a result of
her words? Of whom do you speak? All that matters is the undead's next
feed, the next ill-gotten political gain, the next successful
misdirection.
Not that Pelosi corners the market on such treachery. Let us not
forget the past treason of Representative John Murtha, who has also
stooped as low as being a contributor to the far Left blog The
Huffington Post; lending credence and legitimacy to that abomination
with his office speaks for itself. During a radio address on April 5,
Senator Joe Biden (D-Del) persisted in the call for our withdrawal
from Iraq with baseless claims that the surge has failed.
"Pelosi and [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid also called for a
'change' in strategy in Iraq..." - "Iraq War Policy Debate Returns to
Capitol Hill with Petraeus, Crocker Hearings," Fox News, Monday, April
07, 2008
My, doesn't that sound familiar? "Change" without clarification
thereupon. It's duplicitous business as usual in Congress, but
Americans have been so inundated by the press with Iraq as a
lodestone, the carny-like antics of Democrat candidates and self-
destructive acts of the Spears sisters that they're numb to these
machinations.
One could argue that it is the fault of congressional Republicans and
the Bush administration that we have Pelosi, Reid and the Democrats in
control of Congress at all - and they would be correct, but only in
part. The fault also lies with Americans who have become accustomed to
being spoon-fed media propaganda, those who have abandoned critical
thinking, and those who eschew their civic duties by not voting at
all.
All of this militates against the political process intended by the
founders of this nation - which ought to be first on the list of
"change" anyone addresses.
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Erik Rush is a Featured Writer for The New Media Journal.
He is a New York-born columnist, author and speaker who
lives in Colorado and writes columns of sociopolitical fare
for The New Media Journal as well as dozens of nationally-
distributed print and online news sources. He is also a
Staff Writer and Acting Associate Editor and Publisher for
the New Media Alliance, Inc., a national coalition of writers,
journalists and grass-roots media outlets.
Erik is the veteran of numerous radio appearances and is
the author of several books; his latest, "Annexing Mexico:
Solving the Border Problem Through Annexation and
Assimilation", has just been released by Level 4 Press.
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