THE FAT LADY IS WARMING UP
Within a few months, some very disturbing pictures will wash across our TV screens. It will not be of innocent civilians killed by car bombs or US soldiers being blown up by IED’s. The pictures will be much more unnerving than that.
They will be pictures of our enemies dancing in the streets.
From the refugee camps in Palestine to the streets of Tehran, the nauseating scenes of supporters of people who want to murder us all dancing and screaming “Death to America” will be dwelt on lovingly by the media as the news that America is retreating in the War on Terror reaches even the benighted savages in that excreable part of the world.
This is only the beginning:
President Bush would have to start bringing home U.S. troops from Iraq by Oct. 1, 2006, under a measure a small bipartisan group of House lawmakers - including a Republican who voted for war - proposed Thursday.
Two Republicans and two Democrats introduced a resolution that would require the president to announce by the end of this year a plan for withdrawing troops and steps for following through on that plan. Other Democrats quickly signed onto the plan.
It is the first such resolution put forth by lawmakers from both parties, although an overwhelming number of Democrats and six House Republicans voted in 2002 against sending troops to Iraq.
Don’t anybody kid themselves. With the constant barrage of negative news from Iraq by the MSM plus the added weight of the torture narrative that’s been pounded into the American people for more than a year, a timetable for withdrawal will strike a resonant chord with the American people and before you can say “Bushitler” there will be more Congressman co-sponsoring that resolution than you can shake a stick at.
As I said in a post just this past Monday, the President had to get out front of this issue and squash it in his own party before it started to gain momentum:
I can smell the panic from here.
Unlike Viet Nam, this country is so wired with wall to wall cable and internet news that this type of Congressional insurgency won’t take years or months to ripen, but rather days. The President has to nip this in the bud now or risk losing Congressional support for the Iraq war.
Nothing less than a clear, unambiguous rejection of this resolution by the President will keep a gaggle of Republicans from joining this effort. Any delay could result in the weak and faint of heart (read politically vulnerable) making common cause with people who have little desire to see Iraq - or any other country in the Middle East - free but rather a deep passion to see the President’s policy fail.
The fat lady ain’t singing yet for the war. But I can hear her warming up in the wings.
Rick, do not despair. One thing I have seen time and time again is the timing of the Bush administration with their jujitsu.
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/147
First you feed the dems and libs some rope, they respond but you don’t. Then you feed them some more rope, and they get all giddy - they have you now! Then they start taking rope by the mile…
And then you hang them with their own words.
Tit for tat responses loses all the power of a good, well timed, knock out punch
Comment by AJStrata — 6/16/2005 @ 4:15 pm
I worry about the same thing. When the US withdrew from Nam, the consequences fell on South East Asians.
The Khmer Rouge and the Viet Cong had no interest in exporting their violence. The problem with cutting and running from Iraq is that the Islamic Extremists desperately want to export their violence to America.
big difference.
Comment by TonyR — 6/16/2005 @ 4:52 pm
I can tell you that down here in NC, Rick, Walter Jones is catching serious h*ll all over the place for this, especially since he represents a very republican voting area, including Camp Lejune.
Comment by William Teach — 6/16/2005 @ 6:36 pm
You seem to be hung up on the media, Hawk. The real problem here is the civilian leadership of this country who committed our forces to a war that we probably shouldn’t have involved ourselves in, and then did a miserable job fighting it. George W. Bush is about to become only the 2nd president in U.S. history to lose a war. The difference being that, unlike Nixon, he actually started his.
That Bush’s political support for this war is vanishing domestically is hardly the media’s fault, either. Rising casualty rates coupled with the enormous expense is problem enough. But couple that with the growing perception that Bush is little more than a callow liar that pulled all kinds of dishonest shenanigans to get us involved in this wretched miasma can’t be helping much either.
Anyway, my advice is to get all this denial behind you and face the facts. Bush has lost this war, and the fault is his alone. Stop blaming the messenger.
Comment by Ned Tanner — 6/16/2005 @ 8:03 pm
“Bush has lost the war”?????
Your wishful thinking is laughable. No, really it’s a stitch. I’ve been lurking at both Kos and DU over the last few days and to watch the pathetic hopefullness emenating from the moonbats that FINALLY…WE”RE REALLY GOING TO LOSE THE WAR…and to actually be celebrating that notion shows that you and your ilk are exactly as I describe you; traitorous wretches. Your hatred for the President has driven you to hope that America will be defeated.
Good thing you and your ilk were’nt around 60 years ago. We’d be speaking German.
Comment by Rick Moran — 6/16/2005 @ 8:40 pm