"Fully Embolden Our Enemies?"

The President and his knuckleheads in charge can barely hold together a solid exuse for the folly in Iraq let alone truly know what "emboldens" our enemies. When some one suggests that the reason for not liking a particular bill is based on something they could not know and is truly subjective, you know they are desperate.

Today the House of Representatives passed on a largely party-line vote legislation that would only partially fund our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, but fully embolden our enemies. Once again, the Democratic leadership is taking this debate down a well-worn path that calls for arbitrary withdrawal from the battlefield, despite the gains our military has made over the past year. These votes, like the dozens of previous failed votes, put the interests of radical interest groups ahead of the needs of our military and their mission. If legislation comes to the President in this form, he will certainly veto it.

Congress has had ample time to pass legislation to fund our troops. The original supplemental request was made in February and augmented in October. But because Congressional Democrats insist in going through another round of political votes and vetoes, Pentagon planners will be forced to focus on accounting maneuvers instead of military maneuvers.

Before Congress leaves for recess in December, it should send to the President a clean emergency funding bill, without arbitrary withdrawal dates.

Perhaps the President, not listening to the will of the people is really the problem here.

Really, if you are going to make such a sweeping claim as to say that a bill that sets deadlines for troop redeployment emboldens our enemies, you aught to provide the logic and proof with in which that statement rests. The trouble is the W, Rove and Co has leaned on the "trust us" strategy for so long, they don't realize it's not working any more. Simply because the President's Press secretary says it's so doesn't make it such, does it?