Support them for protecting us: Vets for Freedom

Melanie Morgan, local radio personality and Co-Chair of MoveAmericaForward.org on the lies of the left and Murth’s sudden (yet not) realization that we should pullout of Iraq:

Congressman John Murtha became a celebrity to anti-war groups recently when he called for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

TV analysts breathlessly reported the “stunning” development that a once-”hawkish” representative had turned on the war effort.

The anti-American message board DemocratUnderground was loaded with endless threads of discussion proclaiming the newfound bravery of Congressman Murtha.

No surprise here – Murtha was merely pulling a dishonest political stunt, and he used the willing accomplices of the old-line media and anti-war crowd to pull it off.

Fact is, 18 months earlier, Murtha stood shoulder-to-shoulder with one of the most shamefully dishonest members of Congress, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, and declared that we should cut and run from Iraq.

And this wasn’t the first time Murtha had advocated cut-and-run.

Pay attention here, because you won’t see this fact reported in any major newspaper or alphabet soup network: He gave the exact same advice to President Clinton after American troops were attacked and slaughtered by Al Qaida-backed terrorists in Somalia in 1993.

When Clinton followed Murtha’s advice, it is reported to have emboldened Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, who have both said the incident showed that Americans lacked the will to fight for what they believed in.

But there stood an anguished Congressman Murtha under the hot klieg lights, with tears in his eyes, pretending he had come to some newfound opposition to the Iraq war.

Lies, lies and more lies and cowardice in the face of America’s enemies to boot.

Is it any wonder then, that some of us do indeed question the patriotism of the anti-war crowd?

While the heroic men and women of the United States military are enduring hellish conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting Islamo-fascists intent upon murdering them, they’re being undermined here at home by shameful, guilt-ridden, spineless folks in the anti-war crowd who will tell any lie to justify their reprehensible conduct.

The next time someone on the Left attacks you, or your neighbor, or a friend for questioning their patriotism – calmly look them in the eye and answer back.

Yes, we certainly do question your patriotism.

Emphasis mine. Read the whole thing.

**UPDATE**

Seems there are some factual problems with the assertion that Murtha advised Clinton to pull out of Somalia only after U.S. Troops were attacked. As Dan @ The Other Corner points out, Murtha was against the US military involvement there from the beginning. Dan cautions conservatives on distorting Murtha’s record on Somalia and I agree. However, he is still terribly misguided on Iraq, especially when it is clear we are winning when you listen to the people that are, you know, actually there instead of listening to the MSM, the far-left, and people like Murtha who are obviously too swayed by their emotions to have a clear, rational and objective opinion.

However, Murtha’s record on Somalia aside, Melanie Morgan is still spot-on with the overall theme of her op-ed. And with only an exception for those emotionally misguided people like Murtha, I still question the patriotism of those that perpetuate lies about the war in Iraq and our military men and women for their own political gain.

Drudge is blaring the the GOP is forcing a vote on pulling out from Iraq, essentially putting the Democrats in the position of backing our troops FIGHTING A WAR or the anti-war left.

GOP Pulls Fast One…
Tells Dems: Pull Troops Now? Okay, then let’s vote!!!!!
Tonight. 7 p.m.
Ultimate showdown

If this vote actually happens, it could essentially deal a death-blow to the anti-war “movement.”

**UPDATE**

It appears the vote is going to happen, in the House, tonight. I’d hate to be Hillary right about now.

(h/t Michelle Malkin)

Scott McClellan on Ted Kennedy’s reaction to Bush’s LONG OVERDUE speech today:

It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush than he ever did about Saddam Hussein.

More, MUCH more of this please. (h/t Right Rainbow)

It is well past time the administration started kicking ass and taking names.

“Grim Countdown”

From Iraq the Model:

I met one friend on the way and when I asked him what would his vote be he said that he hasn’t decided yet “if I voted yes I would be approving some articles that I don’t agree with and if I voted no we would go back to where we started from…” he said and that was really refreshing because this guy who used to believe in conspiracy theories and stuff like “what America wants is what’s going to happen” now feels that his vote can make a difference.

Once you have it and understand it, freedom becomes part of your soul. Letting it go is not an option. The Iraqis appear to be learning this in great number, and their neighbors are learning too.

May freedom’s fever spread to the soul of the Middle East.

Drudge is running this now:

Sheehan unleashed a foul-mouth tirade on April 27, 2005:

“They’re a bunch of fucking hypocrites! And we need to, we just need to rise up…” Sheehan said of the Bush administration.

“If George Bush believes his rhetoric and his bullshit, that this is a war for freedom and democracy, that he is spreading freedom and democracy, does he think every person he kills makes Iraq more free?”

“The whole world is damaged. Our humanity is damaged. If he thinks that it’s so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go to this war.”

Lest Don call Drudge a liar and me one for posting it, here is the transcript of that event.

I don’t think Drudge quoted the most telling part. Take a look at this little screed:

I take responsibility partly for my son’s death, too. I was raised in a country by a public school system that taught us that America was good, that America was just. America has been killing people, like my sister over here says, since we first stepped on this continent, we have been responsible for death and destruction. I passed on that bullshit to my son and my son enlisted. I’m going all over the country telling moms: “This country is not worth dying for. If we’re attacked, we would all go out. We’d all take whatever we had. I’d take my rolling pin and I’d beat the attackers over the head with it. But we were not attacked by Iraq. {applause} We might not even have been attacked by Osama bin Laden if {applause}. 9/11 was their Pearl Harbor to get their neo-con agenda through and, if I would have known that before my son was killed, I would have taken him to Canada. I would never have let him go and try and defend this morally repugnant system we have. The people are good, the system is morally repugnant. {applause} (emphasis mine)

Cindy Sheehan is an anti-war activist using her dead, heroic son as a prop in her own private little war and now she is being exposed for what she is. The woman is unhinged and I am becoming more convinced she was that way before her son was killed. The woman is completely nuts.

I am no shrink and this is just personal speculation on my part but think about this for a moment.

Cindy Sheehan, by her own admission, was anti-war when her Casey Sheehan joined the Army. He joined with the intention of going to Iraq. We (Greg and I) are wondering if maybe Cindy Sheehan isn’t pissed at George W. Bush so much as he is the convenient focus of her anger - at Casey, for joining the Army in the first place.

I don’t hear Cindy talking about all the things CASEY will miss out on, she is constantly focused on herself and what SHE is going through. It is not at all beyond the realm of reason, given her selfish behavior thus far, that Cindy Sheehan is mad as hell at her son ‘for doing this to her’.

It is also quite possible that Casey Sheehan may have joined the Army to get away from his mother.

Like I said, this is all just thinking outloud speculation, but it strikes me as more than plausible.

**UPDATE**

This from Drudge this moring:

“My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don’t owe you a penny…you give my son back and I’ll pay my taxes. Come after me (for back taxes) and we’ll put this war on trial.”

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TIME mag reports in new editions on Monday: Sheehan gets support from her surviving son, Andy, in principle, but he recently sent her a long e-mail imploring her, “to come home because you need to support us at home.”

Cindy Sheehan is no longer a grieving mother - she is an anti-war protester that is pursuing her activism at the expense of her own grieving family.

Yeah, I am WAY out there when speculating that Casey Sheehan would have some choice words for his mother.

**UPDATE**

Michelle Malkin: “The wheels just came off the Cindy Sheehan bandwagon.”

Here’s why.

I have to say I agree. The left’s continuing attempts to paint the president as an unfeeling war monger simply don’t have legs - blatant lies and distortions usually fall apart when exposed to sunlight. Of course, if you are a Vampire, you are never blessed with sunlight of truth.

I also think we can expect to see more people like Linda Ryan, wife of Marine Cpl. Marc T. Ryan, of Gloucester City, who was killed in an explosion in Iraq in November, to begin speaking out:

“George Bush didn’t kill her son, it’s the evildoers who have no value of life who killed her son. Her son made a decision to join the Armed Forces and defend our country, knowing that, at any time, war could come about,” Ryan said.

Exactly. But that is the leftist way, isn’t it? Blame everyone except the guy that pulled the trigger - absolve everyone of personal responsibility because it is always someone else’s fault.

**UPDATE**

This about sums it up. The “peace” activists don’t give a crap about Cindy Sheehan or her son or the other 1,854 brave men and women that gave their lives for their country. This is all just another game to further their agenda and the dead are just their playing pieces.

Mohammed at Iraq The Model addresses a post to Cindy Sheehan:

Ma’am, we asked for your nation’s help and we asked you to stand with us in our war and your nation’s act was (and still is) an act of ultimate courage and unmatched sense of humanity.

Our request is justified, death was our daily bread and a million Iraqi mothers were expecting death to knock on their doors at any second to claim someone from their families.

Your face doesn’t look strange to me at all; I see it everyday on endless numbers of Iraqi women who were struck by losses like yours.

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Your son sacrificed his life for a very noble cause…No, he sacrificed himself for the most precious value in this existence; that is freedom.

His blood didn’t go in vain; your son and our brethren are drawing a great example of selflessness.
God bless his free soul and God bless the souls of his comrades who are fighting evil.
God bless the souls of Iraqis who suffered and died for the sake of freedom.
God bless all the freedom lovers on earth.

You want to know what your son died for, Cindy? Here is your answer. Read the whole thing.