The Domestic Insurgency: Libs and Congressional Dems

Ambushed By Our Own

Writing in The American Thinker, Michael J. O'Shea says snipers aim for a soldier's heart; congressional leaders aim for the heart of why he serves: Honor, Country, Duty to both. But to congressional leaders, there's no honor in Iraq. There can't be: it's immoral. Illegal. And it's not even their country's war: it's Bush's.

Telling parents their child died for George Bush is like telling Christa McAuliffe's folks she died for Ronald Reagan.

O'Shea says every problem in Iraq is being attacked in Iraq by Iraqis and Americans together, yet congressional leaders snipe.

• Snipe that Iraqis wouldn't choose democracy: they have.
  
• Snipe that Iraqis wouldn't approve a constitution: they have.
  
• Snipe that Iraqis wouldn't share oil revenues: they have.
  
• Snipe that Iraqis wouldn't reintegrate former Baathists: they have.
  
• Snipe that Iraqis wouldn't fire corrupt commanders: they have.
  
• Snipe that Iraqis wouldn't turn against Sadr: they have.
  
• Snipe that Iraqis wouldn't turn against Al Qaeda: they have.
  
• Snipe that Iraqis wouldn't welcome American troops: they have.
  
• Snipe that Iraqis troops are cowards: they're not.
  
• Snipe that Iraqis politicians are bickering, partisan, and self-serving.

Congressional leaders bicker on, partisan on, self-serve on, proclaiming all the while Iraqis will never be statesmen like them.

O'Shea concludes there are honorable Democrats in Congress. The majority of House and Senate leaders are not among them.

The only thing hopeless about Iraq is congressional leaders.

Read it.