Apr 24 2007

Why Are US Soldiers Dying? Ask Senator Reid

Published by at 6:12 am under All General Discussions,Iraq

The reason Sen Surrender’s (Reid’s) comments were so horrific were not because he was once again stating the obvious liberal democrat position – one which cannot uphold a veto threat because it is NOT the position of most Americans. No, it was not for repeating the well worn liberal mantra. It was because it sent a signal to our enemies during this debate to start killing if they want Sen Surrender to win the day, and that is what al Qaeda is now doing:

A suicide car bomber killed nine US soldiers and injured more than 20 in the single deadliest attack on American ground forces in Iraq for more than a year yesterday.
The attack happened north of Baghdad at a base in Diyala province, which borders Iran and has been the scene of fierce fighting involving US and Iraqi troops and Sunni and Shia forces.

The casualties, along with the death of another US soldier in a roadside bombing in Muqdadiya, also north of the capital, took the number of US troops killed in Iraq this month to 85.

As one soldier in Iraq put it so clearly, Sen Reid is killing our people with his loose lips and botched signals to our enemies:

To be brief, your words are killing us. Your statements make the Iraqis afraid to help us for fear we’ll leave them unprotected in the future. They don’t report a cache, and its weapons blow up my friends in a convoy. They don’t report a foreign fighter, and that fighter sends a mortar onto my base. Your statements are noticed, and they have an effect.

Senator Reid and the Democrat leaders are responsible in a large part for the uptick in violence. The terrorists smelled a hint of surrender and decided to go all out to see if they could stop THEIR bleeding. They want to die doing this so any hope is worth dying for. And now the Democrats better face another reality. Bush is going to veto this Bill and they better stop playing games and stop leaving our troops out to dry. Democrats – you do not have the votes to override a veto and you know it. Stop bleeding our troops like this. Get the funds you already passed to the President and then run a surrender Bill through all by itself. If you have the support you claim then it will pass. We all know you don’t and enough of our best and finest have died with your little stubborn partisan game. End it now and fund the war.

No more blood for politics.

Update: The Democrats know they cannot force the President to surrender – they have already given up on that. But in a sickening display of not caring about our troops at all, they are all for sending signals of encouragement all summer to al Qaeda:

Democratic leaders have been discussing a plan to send the president a smaller tranche of war funds if this measure is vetoed, which would continue funding the war for a shorter period — and would keep the war debate on the front burner.

If Democrats truly supported the troops the LAST thing they would do is keep this debate on the front burner. They will literally bleed the military to win and have now announced this fact openly.

23 responses so far

23 Responses to “Why Are US Soldiers Dying? Ask Senator Reid”

  1. lurker9876 says:

    Hopefully, the American Public will strongly and publicly object to the Democrats’ maneuvering of the funds because of Bush’s veto. Will the Crocheting Old Bastard soon go after Reid for being liable to killing and injuring our soldiers? Some people have offered to help him.

    These Democrats are doing this plus going after Gonzales, and soon Rove, in order to win ’08. And they think these things will help them win it.

  2. DaleinAtlanta says:

    I have a Crazy question for Senator Reid: is it possible US soldiers are dying because we are IN A DAMN WAR?”

    And therein lies the difference between people who “get it”, and traitors like Reid, Murtha, Kerry, etc.

    We ARE in a WAR!

    For people like Reid, etc., this is a political “game”; a game of “gotcha”; a game to see who the Surrendercrats can best position themselves, for lifelong power, and corruption.

    They don’t give a damn about American, Western Civilization, destroying a Presidency, destroying the power of the Chief Executive, undermining the Commander in Chief, destroying the morale of the troops, providing aid and comfort to the enemy, enabling the head-cutting-off-Jihadis, to further their own political ambitions!

    It’s societal suicide, by a bunch of traitorous, idiotic, shortsighted morons!

    I’ll come back some time later, and tell what I really think…

  3. Retired Spook says:

    I’ll come back some time later, and tell what I really think…

    Oh, I don’t know, Dale. I think you did a pretty good job the first time through, and I couldn’t agree more.

    I told AJ a couple months back that I had this horrible gut feeling that the sh*t was about to hit the fan. Nothing has happened since to change my mind. I’m only sorry I’m retired. The Intelligence Community would be an interesting place to be right now.

    On the other side of the coin, I think we have a veeeeery narrow window of opportunity for success in Iraq. The Army and Marine Corps, in particular, are stretched nearly to the limit, and I suspect that our enemies know it. This war was never going to be easy, but it has been made doubly hard by having to fight a second front here at home. IMHO, if the Dems are able to spin this into a political victory in 2008, their euphoria will be short-lived.

  4. MerlinOS2 says:

    RS

    I agree with your sentiment and also echo Dale.

    I do have an issue with the stretch thing since I know many units of the active military who still haven’t got their pants dirty because they never have been cycled in and are still playing out GI Joe roles elsewhere.

    The limited window is real, but only a political contraption. Our military could endure a slug fest of dozens of years without breaking a sweat.

    As far as Harry Reid goes I hope someone has a well aimed size nine ten or twelve or really big NBA size thirteen aimed at his butt with good GPS coordinates for the much welcomed shock and awe.

  5. Harry Reid’s Bloody Hands…

    Harry Reid seems quite determined to drive over the cliff and take his party with him. While I’m all for the Democrats self-destructing, by denying the troops the necessary funds for the war, he’s endangering both their lives and ours. If the Democra…

  6. Retired Spook says:

    Our military could endure a slug fest of dozens of years without breaking a sweat.

    I do hope you’re right, Merlin. Ralph Peters, whom I greatly respect, seems to think otherwise. Another retired spook friend emailed me Peter’s latest column yesterday. I neglected to save it, and I’m not even sure what newspaper it was in, but he seems to think that our ground forces are stretched about to the breaking point. If what you say is true, why are rotations increasing from 12 months to 15 months?

  7. Soothsayer says:

    Good friends of ours have a son who is seving in Iraq. Fortunately, he is okay so far and will be coming home in a few months. Through the miracle of modern communications he talks to his parents a couple of times a week. Here is what his parents say their son and other soldiers think about the extension of tours of duty recently foisted upon them by the Bush Administration.

    “No one knows why we are here, we’re not doing any good.”

    “How can we win when the Iraqi people don’t seem to care.”

    and . . .

    “We are ready to lynch Republicans.”

  8. AJStrata says:

    Soothie,

    So your saying your friend’s son is ready to come back and kill some Reps? In light of the VA Tech shooting maybe you should have him checked out before he makes good on his comments.

    And I suppose, by posting this, you are all supportive of his opinions? How pathetic.

  9. Soothsayer says:

    George (a war hero – not a draft dodger) McGovern speaks:

    In the war of my youth, World War II, I volunteered for military service at the age of 19 and flew 35 combat missions, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross as the pilot of a B-24 bomber. By contrast, in the war of his youth, the Vietnam War, Cheney got five deferments and has never seen a day of combat — a record matched by President Bush.

    Cheney charged that today’s Democrats don’t appreciate the terrorist danger when they move to end U.S. involvement in the Iraq war. The fact is that Bush and Cheney misled the public when they implied that Iraq was involved in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks. That was the work of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda team. Cheney and Bush blew the effort to trap Bin Laden in Afghanistan by their sluggish and inept response after the 9/11 attacks.

    They then foolishly sent U.S. forces into Iraq against the advice and experience of such knowledgeable men as former President George H.W. Bush, his secretary of State, James A. Baker III, and his national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft.

    Just as the Bush administration mistakenly asserted Iraq’s involvement in the 9/11 attacks, it also falsely contended that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

    The war in Iraq has greatly increased the terrorist danger. There was little or no terrorism, insurgency or civil war in Iraq before Bush and Cheney took us into war there five years ago. Now Iraq has become a breeding ground of terrorism, a bloody insurgency against our troops and a civil war.

    Beyond the deaths of more than 3,100 young Americans and an estimated 600,000 Iraqis, we have spent nearly $500 billion on the war, which has dragged on longer than World War II.

    It is my firm belief that the Cheney-Bush team has committed offenses that are worse than those that drove Nixon, Vice President Spiro Agnew and Atty. Gen. John Mitchell from office after 1972. Indeed, as their repeated violations of the Constitution and federal statutes, as well as their repudiation of international law, come under increased consideration, I expect to see Cheney and Bush forced to resign their offices before 2008 is over.

    When Bush and Cheney are indicted for war crimes will see who’s pathetic.

  10. Aitch748 says:

    Yeah, if it isn’t “impeachment”, it’s “indictment for war crimes.” Quit crying wolf already.

  11. Terrye says:

    sooth:

    How can anyone be this stupid? A lot of people have relatives and families serving in Iraq. You mention these little things and act as if it means anything to anyone here. For one thing I would not be surprised if you are not just lying for another there are thousands of examples of troops saying something entirely different. I was born in southern Oklahoma, near Fort Sill. In the last election when this war was under way that county went for Republicans at almost 80%. In fact there was not one blue county in the whole damn state.

    BTW, McGovern got beat and McCain is a war hero too.

    Tell me, why do you want to disgrace our military and abandon the Iraqi people? do you hate your country?

    And Bush is not a draft dodger. calling him one makes you look stupid.

  12. Terrye says:

    BTW, there are a record number of reenlistments in Iraq. Lots of these people could have been out of the military a long time ago if they wanted. I am sure the extra long deployments are hard, I don’t doubt it, but if the Democrats had not been encouraging the enemy a lot of these guys might have been able to come home by now. They are not helping.

  13. Terrye says:

    The size of our military is in the millions, 150,000 troops does not tax it that much. In fact we have had that many in Europe for years on end.

  14. MerlinOS2 says:

    RS

    The weak point of our military ,if there is one, is the expensive boy toys each service seems to try to trip over themselves buying. We have humvess that have had to be refitted with up armor at more cost than we originally paid for them. You almost have to believe they were designed as a big gruesome looking big hulk of a thing to ride downtown in an almost unopposed police action. Those things like that which haven’t been blown up are now having to be recycled to maintenance depots and have worn out engines pulled, whole drive trains replaced. Not just the shock absorbers but even their mounting points are having to be replaced and strengthened.

  15. Soothsayer says:

    I was born in southern Oklahoma, near Fort Sill. In the last election when this war was under way that county went for Republicans at almost 80%. In fact there was not one blue county in the whole damn state.

    I can well believe this – as OKLAHOMA RANKS 48TH IN THE COUNTRY IN AVERAGE TEACHER SALARY AND IN EDUCATION SPENDING PER STUDENT. Looking for someplace stupid? Try Oklahoma.

  16. AJStrata says:

    Soothie,

    Grow up or leave…..

  17. Terrye says:

    soothie:

    Well that was a ncie pice of regional snobbery wasn’t it? Oklahoma used to be aDemocratic state, maybe it was people like you who turned it into a Republican state.

    You know 60 years ago you would have been rooting for the Nazis and calling George McGovern a war criminal for killing civilians in bombing raids. That is how people like you think.

    The point I was making is that while it is a hardship to extend some of these deployments it is also true that the military is voluntary and there has been an usually high level of reenilistments. At the end of WW2 soldiers stationed in Europe were rioting because they wanted to come home. Seen any riots among the ranks in Iraq?

  18. Terrye says:

    And you know something sooth? it is kind of ridiculous to be saying you speak for the soldiers while you are calling them stupid.

  19. Terrye says:

    That is what you are saying isn’t it soothie pie? Right? When I said that the people of Oklahoma have a lot of soldiers and military families and you respond by saying they are stupid that is your point right?

  20. Aitch748 says:

    So Sooth smears an entire state of people as stupid, not by indicating average school grades or average IQ or number of college degrees per capita or anything that MIGHT be somewhat relevant, but by indicating how much teachers get paid and how much money is spent per student.

    Yeah, because students will get smarter if you buy brand new math textbooks at $35 apiece instead of getting them used online at $10 apiece, because the issue is how much money you spend.

    Typical liberal yardstick.

    Hell, typical liberal bigotry.