The New National Symbol,

or,

Just Cut and Run!

For some time, it has been plain that some people within our nation are more concerned about re-election, or to paraphrase John Stuart Mill, are too concerned with comfort and safety to be kept free and made so only by the exertions of better men than themselves.

The vote on the floor of the House demanding a timetable for withdrawal of forces from Iraq did more to embolden every Jihadi within reach of any forms of telecommunication. The self-righteous claptrap uttered by Representative John Murtha (D) demanding a withdrawal was irresponsible at best, treasonous at worst.

Okay, Mr. Murtha, you went to Viet Nam. Fine. Thanks for your service.

But does that give you the right to demand the defeat and retreat of our armed forces (read NATION) engaged in our current war? I only hear the justification of cutting and running " 'cuz I went to Viet Nam" among the usual crowd of suspects. Might I remind you, military service alone does not make you right, as so many are so willing to point out when little things are challenged, say, like how many absentee military ballots from Bosnia in the 2000 Presdiential election?

Then again, Hitler was decorated for wounds recieved as a Non-Commissioned Officer (Corporal) while in the German Army during the First World War. By your own logic, Misters Murtha, Kerry, et al, that makes his actions and plans unassailable because he served.

This self-interested sedition crosses party lines, with Republicans spewing the same ill-concieved plan for "peace."

They only saved something that remains of their reputation through forcing a vote to be made on the timetable immediately. Of course, six of the Representatives voted "present," being too cowardly to even be a coward. Four voted in favor of it, and these are confined to the "kook fringe." I guess time in Washington was more easily obtainable than commital in any mental hospital?

I have never met any real veteran of any conflict that spewed the same self-interested crap as Murtha, Kerry, and crowd. Most are concerned that we aren't doing enough!

For the " 'cuz I went to Viet Nam" crowd, did you learn anything from your own generation's war? Didn't you learn that every third world nation seeking to defeat us would have to do it in our media? These same nations figured out that to defeat a "firepower rich" nation, you get them entangled in a war of attrition through loss of onesy-twoseys, and use the media to defeat the American population in their own homes.

And didn't you learn, after we cut and run, of the bloodbath and chaos that would follow?

Then again, a Marine Reserve officer, also a Representative in the Ohio state legislature, had a few words to say by pen, read aloud on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by his U.S. House member, "Cowards cut and run, real Marines never do." The uproar from the self-annointed masters of the American peasantry was deafening! "How dare a babykiller question me!?!?"

I wonder how long it will be before Article 88 training will be given to all active and reserve component personnel?

Until then, here's my opinion:

You are all a bunch a selfish seditionists. Period. Stop trying to relive the mispent days of your youth in the '60's, and get out of the way of the real Americans!