This says it all in regards to the actions of some of our elected leaders such as Durbin & Kennedy:
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda chief in Iraq, sent a thank you note to the Dick Durbins and Ted Kennedys of Congress in a message to his followers and sympathizers on July 5. According to an unreleased translation read to me by a Defense Department source, Zarqawi’s message exhorted his terrorists to greater effort, because, Zarqawi said, it is very clear that America was being defeated in Iraq. Zarqawi’s proof? His message said that the proof that America is losing is that some American congressmen are saying just that.
How can these people be so ignorant to not even realize that their actions just embolden our enemy?
The writer, Jed Babbin, ends with this:
It is essential to the war that our enemy has no reason to doubt our resolve. Winston Churchill knew that. His ringing speeches, throughout the war, and especially in its darkest hours, were literally the fuel that propelled British courage when everyone, including many of his closest advisers, thought all was lost. When Dick Durbin compared our people at Gitmo to Nazis, Gulag guards, and Pol Pot’s mass murderers, there was a short burst of outrage, quelled by his phony apology. Senate Republicans never demanded — or got — a clear and unequivocal apology from Durbin. By their failure to do so they give credence to Zarqawi’s message.
Republicans in the Senate and House are failing in one of their key wartime tasks: to take on the political opposition in the debate. Not to shout people down, but to take them to task. On the floor, we should be hearing one speech after another critical of the irresponsible rhetoric of the left. Why don’t we? Because they want comity, to pass laws we don’t need, spend money we should save, and give themselves pay raises without voting for them. What they should be doing, instead, is taking on the tough problems they were elected to tackle. Like what do we do about the terrorists who are within our borders, and those who preach violence and hatred to young Muslims here. They should read carefully the newly leaked dossier on recruitment of terrorists in the U.K. And they should not allow those who apologize for terrorists scare them out of it.
It’s amazing to think that the Republicans have the Majority in both the Senate and the Congress but are too scared to take these guys on. If they don’t find their courage soon we may be facing a disaster of huge proportions.
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