Combat tours cut
The President today announced that because of the success of our troops in the Middle East, the enemy is on the run and the troops can count on shorter tours (Wall Street Journal link);
President George W. Bush declared progress in the Iraq war Thursday, saying terrorists “are on the run” and a generally improved security environment should permit further U.S. troop reductions.
Standing on the Colonnade outside the Oval Office of the White House, President Bush also announced that effective Thursday, the duration of troop tours in Iraq will be cut from 15 months to 12 months.
Mr. Bush said this reduction “will relieve the burden on our forces and it will make life easier for our wonderful military families.”
With no help from Democrats, with no help from the cutthroat back-stabbing sociopaths of the IVAW and Veterans For Peace, no help from the drama queens at Code Pink, no help from the filthy hippies of ANSWER. With no help from Barack Obama, no help from Chuck Hagel. With no help from Harry Reid, no help from Nancy Pelosi. With no help from phony soldier John Murtha, no help from phony earthling Dennis Kucinich. No help from Jim Webb no help from Ron Paul..
The troops and the President, all by themselves, did what nearly every media outlet said they couldn’t. Against the odds, against the pseudo-experts.
They can all claim credit and change their stories from now until the cows come home, but the troops know who stood with them. And who didn’t.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans Against the War, John Murtha, Media, Phony soldiers, Politics
WE were focused on and engaged in success, in spite of the media and democratic politicians clamoring for defeat. The media was generally silent except when there was another American death to exploit for their anti-war agenda. Now that victory can no longer be ignored, they’re being forced to admit it, albeit with the usual ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’. I don’t know about the rest of America, but I damned sure won’t forget which traitors in the democratic party and the MSM prostituted themselves to the Islamofascists because their hatred for the military, this country, and George Bush, overrides any sense of loyalty.
Can we question their patriotism now?
You all know that this is because Obama went there and blessed the land. Now that The One Who Will Save Us All has been there all will be right.
GI JANE Said:
I don’t know about the rest of America, but I damned sure won’t forget which traitors in the democratic party and the MSM prostituted themselves to the Islamofascists because their hatred for the military, this country, and George Bush, overrides any sense of loyalty.
We won despite one of the biggest propaganda campaigns that would have made Goebbels envious. A traitorous left and their complicent allies in the MSM could not derail the resolve, persistence, sacrifice and excellence of the US Armed Forces and CiC, President Bush. Bad things happen when you root against your own country and paint those who defend our country as villians and criminals. The Democrat controlled Congress currently has a 13% appproval rating and Obamessiah polling lead over McCain is within the margin of error, at 2.6%, even though at times, McCain seems to be giving the election away!
Maybe people are finally seeing through the rhetoric of the radical leftists and socialists that have hijacked the Democratic Party.
We went through this immediately in the aftermath of the Cold War. When the Soviets threw in the towel, the number of people in power who could take credit was quite small. But the legions of useful idiots who were sniping, slapping and yapping at Reagan and Thatcher were everywhere. To this day, they say Reagan’s confrontation against Communism and international socialism was irrelevant.
They would say that, becaue they have to. So history repeats itself after only 20 years. You’d think some would learn from it.
He’s done this before. However, the troops need to not be on 12 month tours in Iraq, they need to be out of Iraq entirely.
Also, given the people I’ve helped over the last few days in my IVAW capacity, troops that needed assistance, yeah, I think the troops do know who supports them.
Martino said:
To this day, they say Reagan’s confrontation against Communism and international socialism was irrelevant.
Let’s not forget Pope John Paul II’s role in bringing down the Soviet Union. Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II facing off the Soviet’s without a bullet being fired!
Whether you like Murtha or not, you have to consider the fact that you just called a 30 year veteran of the Marine Corps a phony soldier. How can you reasonably explain that?
Jonn wrote: Easy…he uses that 30 years (of which ONE YEAR was spent on active duty) as some sort of credibility. For 17 years of that 30 he was in Congress – how heroic is that? And for the last 15 years he’s been preaching surrender to terrorists from his perch that he built for himself on the backs of the folks who’ve done the heavy lifting, the folks who paid the price. How do you reasonably defend the fact that he’s done everything in hiss power to besmirch the reputations of his “fellow” Marines? Now if you have some other sanctimonious BS add, please do. I’d love to make you look even more moronic.
Also, the majority of troops are serving right around 12 months or less already. Claiming to be making deployments shorter with this anouncement, obviously meant to boost his image, is at least a bit misleading.
COB6 Wrote: As a parent of two currently serving, please site your claim that most are currently serving 12 month tours.
… chirp, chirp…
I thought so.
To answer Celine: Because he is a phony and always has been. His exploits in Vietnam were more fiction than anything and his actions in Congress have been a disgrace to every person who ever wore a uniform.
He doesn’t do this because he’s a principled leftist, he does it to enrich his family and friends, which he has mastered. The man is a criminal (ABSCAM) and not worthy to call himself a Marine.
Every fall, the USMC has a big party in Washington DC to celebrate the birthday of the Marine Corps; ask Murtha why he hasn’t been invited to that celebration?
How about a video from one of “This ain’t Hell”‘s own, TSO, dressing down Murtha:
…and Murtha does his best “Fred Crampton” humana, humana, humana… hontest Alice, I didn’t mean to represent myself as the president of the bus company…
Well, I just found out we can’t post videos…
Here’s the link to TSO dressing down Murtha:
Murtha gets a much needed talkin’ to
So if the Leader says the enemy is on the run, it must be so. Is that another way of saying “Mission Accomplished”?
Nice phony diatribe anyway.
COB6 Wrote: What do you call a 90% reduction in violence and 15 of 18 benchmarks met? Remember Clinton’s “Home by Christmas” speech? We are still there. Keep drinking that Kool Aide and sound off as ignorantly as you want. Your betters are preserving that right for you.