Chucky's Responsibility

The title stated that a timetable will not hurt our troops, so I immediately thought to myself, "great, another article about Iraq, from someone who knows nothing about how the military works."

He changes directions for a brief moment. The Chuckster believes it is the editorialist's responsibility to say boo about the war. No, that is not your responsibility. I believe it is to write a good article, not spout mindless opinions about something you pretend to understand.

Continuing on.

First: No matter what that president whom you love so much tells you, this resolution is not about going after service men and women. It isn't about "not supporting" the troops and it doesn't render moot the lives that have already been lost in Iraq.

This resolution isn't about going after the military, but it does do so. When you threaten to increase qualifications to go to Iraq (Murtha), therefore limiting our troops in Iraq, or threaten to hold back funding (Reid/Pelosi), you are going after our armed services.

It is sad when a soldier dies fighting for our country, and in many other cases, our world, but to pull out of Iraq before finishing would mean those men died for nothing. That is a cold-hard fact. They died to bring peace and stability to Iraq while fighting the war on terror, and pulling out now would mean none of that was accomplished. Pretty simple math here, Chucky. People like you believe that if you keep saying it, it will become reality. Doesn't work that way.

He continues with babble. Really bad babble. Sounded as if I wrote it but was an idiot leftist.

Amidst the babble, he says that because Bush has no plan we should surrender the war and allow Iraq to be controlled by Islamafacists. Who couldn't get behind that plan?

His next "point."

Second: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) argument that this gives the enemy a copy of our "battle plan" is fundamentally true; what's not fundamentally true is that this is our entire battle plan or that it really matters.

You can't see that there are terrorists waiting to take control? You can't see that most Iraqis want us there right now because they want to be free? You can't see that pulling out now would give power to the terrorists and prevent freedom to Iraqis?

Creating a time table will increase the terrorist population because people will have recognized their victory. A time table will give them months to build up and plan. We shouldn't pull out at all, Chucky, but making it known well in advance is about the dumbest thing to pile on with.

Furthermore, what other battle plan has McConnell got to hide? I could sell the terrorists the whiskey-stained, blank sheet of receipt paper sitting under my coffee and they'd likely have a better document than anything McConnell, Bush or any one of the Georgetown-trained interns at the White House could hope to come up with.

I'm guessing you sat in on the briefings because you seem to know so much about the situation. Again, saying he has no battle plan doesn't make it true. You may laugh at "stay with the course," but it happens to be the best thing to do when trying to accomplish such a task. And that statement doesn't mean, "keep doing what you are doing." There are obviously more detail going into the war that isn't getting published, but what would you know about that?

Finally: Perhaps most important as far as we're concerned, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) are together the reason that this legislation passed. Hagel, keeping with what has become an unusually honorable streak in dealing with the war, was one of only two Republicans to vote for the legislation.

Hagel is honorable because he thinks like you on one issue. Set the bar high.

What is very dishonorable is acting as if he speaks for the military (like McCain) when they don't. These guys have lost more of the military vote than most democrats (mainly because the democrats didn't have much), which is clear to show that they care more about winning an election than standing up for the men and organization they fought next to years ago.

Lieberman is a snake, though. Go figure.

After reading The Chuckster's latest editorial, I have come to the conclusion that I was way wrong. The editorialist's responsibility is actually to write a factless propaganda piece that says, "the left is right because I said so." No further explanation needed.