While American troops are in battle against the enemy the Democratic Majority Leader in the United States Senate, Harry Reid said:
The war in Iraq "is lost" and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country,
The same party that brought us defeat in Vietnam (see picture above) now wants to bring defeat to the United States in Iraq and all the middle east.
As John McCain said last week at VMI:
Before I left for Iraq, I watched with regret as the House of Representatives voted to deny our troops the support necessary to carry out their new mission. Democratic leaders smiled and cheered as the last votes were counted. What were they celebrating? Defeat? Surrender? In Iraq, only our enemies were cheering. A defeat for the United States is a cause for mourning not celebrating. And determining how the United States can avert such a disaster should encourage the most sober, public-spirited reasoning among our elected leaders not the giddy anticipation of the next election. Democrats who voted to authorize this war, and criticized the failed strategy that has led us to this perilous moment, have the same responsibility I do, to offer support when that failure is recognized and the right strategy is proposed and the right commanders take the field to implement it or, at the least, to offer an alternative strategy that has some relationship to reality.
I will give Senator Reid the benefit of the doubt as to his sincerity. However the enemies of freedom and the terrorist of the world are happy to see the white flag of surrender by the Democrats in Congress.
(Picture above is the evacuation from the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam after the Democrats in Congress brought defeat in that war by cutting off the funds to the South Vietnamese and would not even allow the United States to provide them with air support. Will history repeat itself?)
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” — “The Crisis”, Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776
