For years we heard Democrats complain about the Bush Administration's strategic failures in Iraq. The left has called for impeachment of both the President and Vice President. They wanted Rumsfeld drawn and quartered then imprisoned. They yearned, and screamed for Bush to admit that mistakes had been made. They demanded change.

They got change.

Bush canned Rumsfeld. He looked at the Bi-partisan Iraq Study Group resommendations. The he changed the strategy. New Tactics. New Rules of Enagement. 21,500 reinforcements.

The problem is that wasn't the change the left wanted. In typical liberal nuanced fashion when they said "change," wqhat they really meant was surrender. The only thing they meant by change was to pack-up turn tail and run. Bush did change the other way around.

So the Democrat controlled House of Representatives took bold action. They stood up and declared, in an entirely non-binding have no effect on anything kind of way, that they don't like it one little bit. They have announced to the world, our enemies included, that the U.S. House of Representatives opposes any action by the Commander and Chief with the objective of actually winning the war. And they bravely did so in a way that has no force of law.

They could not have done this however without the expectation that it would not send a message to our troops in combat and to the enemies they face. To our troops it says we expect and want you to fail and we do not support you or your efforts. To our enemies it says that we are divided and that we lack the will to achieve victory. They had to know this. And they voted for it. This has to be what they wanted to say.

This is the House for the next two years. I wonder how much worse it's going to get.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 01:11 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment