Waving the white flag

Of course everyone has heard how the Senate feels about our troops – they loaded up their surrender flag with pork. From the Washington Post;

Senate Democrats scored a surprise victory yesterday in their bid to force President Bush to end the Iraq war, turning back a Republican amendment that would have struck a troop withdrawal plan from emergency military funding legislation.

And everyone knows that Chuck Hagel, a former paratrooper in the mold of Hugo Chavez, is the reason that the Democrats pulled off their little coup;

The defection of a prominent Republican war critic, Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, sealed the Democrats’ win. Hagel, who opposed identical withdrawal language two weeks ago, walked onto the Senate floor an hour before the late-afternoon vote and announced that he would “not support sustaining a flawed and failing policy,” adding: “It’s now time for the Congress to step forward and establish responsible boundaries and conditions for our continued military involvement in Iraq.”

Yep, that’s exactly how you attract Republicans to your primary effort, Chuckie. You can just keep your paws off the Airborne Day proclamation this year, thanks.

And good ol’ Dingy Harry Reid is bravest when he’s surrendering as reported by S.A. Miller in the Washington Times;

   “We are not going to back down from the essential language in this bill,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said of the mandate that a troop pullout start almost immediately with the goal of a complete exit by next March.

Yep, you’ll back down from our enemies, though, won’t ya, Harry?

All’ya’all may already know all of this. And you probably know that the president will veto anything resembling a surrender movement that crosses his desk. But, have you read Blackfive’s reactions from the troops?

UPDATE: A word from Gunnery Sgt Krueger (in Iraq) on Powerline.

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