Questioning our Patriotism

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Thursday August 30, 2007 · 5:08 AM PDT

2007/08/30 · 05:08

Today's Washington Post published the op-ed The Washington Clock Runs Down by Kyle Teamey, "a former Army officer who served in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2003 and 2004;" who is also "co-author of the military's counterinsurgency field manual." What pisses me off are the implicit statements that we democrats are unpatriotic (i.e. giving aide and comfort to the enemy) by urging the U.S. to get out of Iraq.

The entire MSM from MSNBC's Cup of Joe to the Washington Post's op-ed page is calling anti-war (or anti-occupation) democrats unpatriotic. Fox like Ted Nugent would rather just shoot any Democrat whether they are anti-war or not.

The op-ed attempts to be clever in its wording saying:

Mismanagement by the Bush administration and an unquestioning Republican Congress may have set the stage for the sectarian violence of 2006, but Democratic efforts to pull out troops, cut off support or link support to unattainable benchmarks have been equally damaging to attempts to get militias and insurgents to lay down their arms.

This is Bull Shit. The Bush administration did more than set the stage; the Bush administration continues to lose the war on terror by

invading a Iraq without adequate a) justification; b) preparation; c) backing of the world community; d) understanding the complexities of the region; and . . .(to much incompetence to list);

Continuously and even today underestimating the cost of the war and worse underfunding the war so that at no point in time are there adequate resources to win the war; even today;

Basically crippling the Armed forces in such a profound way that despite what anti-war democrats may say; everyone knows the US cannot keep current troop levels in Iraq long term;

and finally

stretching resources so thin that the US is likely to suffer another terrorist attack and there is not a dam thing the armed forces will be able to do.

I am sick and tired of op-ed writers who instead of looking at the bigger picture. Statements such as

Party politics matters more than the results of a distant war. Though the pacification of much of western Iraq provides evidence of substantial gains in the past six months, the battle of perceptions is all but lost, and with it, the political clock has run out.

that implicitly blame democrats for what Bush/Cheney have done and the mess the Heil Bush Republican Party has created is unutterable crap. The Washington Post by publishing such crap does a disservice to the nation.

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