Posted by
Eric Jay on Friday, April 20, 2007 9:35:09 AM
Harry Reid has done a huge disservice to those who fight to secure our safety and security in the world. The men and women in Iraq are putting their lives on the line to secure freedom and liberty in a part of the world that has not seen neither the former nor the latter; the goal also prevents the securing of a safe haven for al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations (read: Hezbollah and Hamas). We are in for the fight of our lives.
Ask military personnel what they think:
LT Nichols also in Baghdad:
Senator Reid: When you say we've lost in Iraq, I don't think you understand the effect of your words. The Iraqis I speak with are the good guys here, fighting to build a stable government. They hear what you say, but they don't understand it. They don't know about the political game, they don't know about a Presidential veto, and they don't know about party politics.
But they do know that if they help us, they are noticed by terrorists and extremists. They decide to help us if they think we can protect them from those terrorists. They tell us where caches of weapons are hidden. They call and report small groups of men who are strangers to the neighborhood, men that look the same to us, but are obvious to them as a foreign suicide cell.
To be brief, your words are killing us. Your statements make the Iraqis afraid to help us for fear we'll leave them unprotected in the future. They don't report a cache, and its weapons blow up my friends in a convoy. They don't report a foreign fighter, and that fighter sends a mortar onto my base. Your statements are noticed, and they have an effect.
Finally, you are mistaken when you say we are losing. We are winning, I see it every day. However, we will win with fewer casualties if you help us. Will you?
Respectfully,
LT Jason Nichols, USN
MNF-I, Baghdad
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Defeatocrat Dimocrat bent on scoring political points to get the pork laden Emergency Funding for the troops is foolhardy at best and deadly at the worst. Recall that during the last election the Dimocrats swore they would not put timetables for pullouts on the Iraq War...how many other false promises have they broken: again recall the First 100 Days? Nothing done...except as Senator Schumer has graciously pointed out oversight: the number of committee hearings and investigations has more than doubled. Wasted time and money, and nothing done...yup, I'm thinking of changing my party affiliation to Defeatocrat Dimocrats!