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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
General Protect Us
by Rich Galen
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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


Read it again.

See? You can read that as many times as you like and it will not make any more sense than it did the first time.

Now say these words to yourself: President Barack H.(!) Obama.

Make you feel comfortable?

Later in his questioning, Barack H.(!) Obama asked this of Ambassador Crocker: Can you respond a little more fully to Senator Boxer's point?

Let me tell you: If it weren't for Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) would be the dumbest member of the US Senate. So Obama depending upon anything that Boxer asked is an open admission of his lack of preparation.

The Democrats in Congress must take care that they are not seen as rooting for failure in Iraq.

Americans are, by our nature, optimists. We may be exhausted by this war, but we will never be so weary that we want our military personnel to lose.

General Petraeus is representative of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have answered the call to duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Given that, it is politically very dangerous for Democrats to try and paint Petraeus as anything other than a patriot.

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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Apr 11, 2008 - 11:39 AM EST
In The Now
Seventy percent of Americans do not approve of this war. They are all traitors? Al-qaida in Iraq is a minimal force, and the Sunnis in Anbar province are fighting them. The real Al-Qaida is in Afghanistan and Pakistan. You heard Obama say that he would foght them there. All Democrats approve of fighting in Afghanistan. It's Bush's mistakes that have us stuck in the middle of civil war in Iraq. There is nothing in Iraq that you can call victory. That war is unwinable, not even if you call a draft and send in half a million more soldiers.
What is "victory" for you? How would you win it?
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Date: Apr 11, 2008 - 5:54 AM EST
Title Says it All
The title and this statement say it all: “The goals of the Democrats and both al Qaeda and al Sadr insurgents are the same: the defeat of the United States in the war in Iraq.”

Anti-win proponents froth at the mouth with anger when someone points out this fact. Why? Because it’s true! That is the reason you won’t see any dissenting comments denying this. It is undeniable.

I posted this yesterday to a similar article and its applicable here:

Ask this simple question to any Democrat: Do you want to win the war? And more than likely, you’ll receive a convoluted response in attempts to circumvent the question. Many have staked their political careers in defeat and are now doing the Texas two-step trying to survive. And sadly, they’re eight year campaign to demonize President Bush has succeeded, which keeps their flock firmly in tow.

Sadly, many misguided Americans hate Bush so much, that defeat in Iraq will mean victory for the Democratic Party.
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