Who Are We?

“Who are we?”

Hello my friends and welcome to the Hawks Press. There wasn’t an update last week, as you probably know, due to various reasons. Before I begin, I would like to offer my prayers to everyone affected by the recent Virginia Tech tragedy and say that everyone shares the pain.

I would like to talk today about some of the recent statements you might have heard from talk radio, TV, blogs, and various other sources that go back to something I said in an earlier podcast. In referring to the Democrats trying to get an Emergency War Spending Bill loaded with billions of dollars in pork and hurtful timelines that would ultimately kill the chances of success in Iraq. “So they can win the White House in 2008.”

"I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and -- you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows -- [know] this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday,” the undeserving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stated Thursday. Of course, we all know Harry Reid is a brilliant military genius who has the greatest plan for Iraq.

If you haven’t been paying attention, Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer have finally confirmed what I’ve been saying. “We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.” For those who attack Republicans for saying the Democrats are only looking after their chances in 08 and not looking after our soldiers, you’ve just lost your argument. It may just be one of my conspiracy theories that Democrats are going to do whatever it takes to make this war a defeat for America, a failure for George Bush, and a victory for the Islamic-Fascists to regain total control of Washington again, but when you here these statements, it appears to be more than just a conspiracy theory, more than just a theory. It appears to be true.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich wrote about Harry Reid’s statements in his recent Winning the Future newsletter, which I highly recommend if you have not yet subscribed to it. Quote: “This is not a sentiment--and these are not words—worthy of the leadership of a great nation.” Unquote. I’ll tell you what it is: despicable. Let’s look at another recent development.

[play audio clip of Jack Murtha about “we are not fighting this war”]

That was Jack Murtha’s response to statements Pete Hoekstra made about fighting the War on Terror. When I first heard of those statements listening to Mark Levin’s radio show, I couldn’t seem to be able to think of how anyone could take Congressman Hoekstra’s remarks to mean “we” as in the Congress. Apparently Jack Murtha doesn’t realize that WE are a nation and WE share in the fight, whether we are there or not. WE are proud of our service men and women and what they do, and it’s idiots like Murtha, Reid, and Schumer who don’t seem to get it.

I’ll go ahead and get it out of the way: Harry Reid should resign, and John Murtha needs to shut up. Mark Levin said it best: Harry Reid is a Traitor and has committed Treason. Levin used those two words, and I’m repeating them. Traitor: A person who betrays another. Treason: The betrayal of a trust or confidence; treachery. By publicly admitting that he’s playing with the War to pick up Senate seats and declaring that, despite what our troops on the ground and what our generals are reporting, the war is lost, he has betrayed our troops and stabbed them in the back. He is allowing the funds to be put off and is using slow bleed tactics to weaken our own army. He has given the enemy reason to celebrate by saying “You have won and have defeated the greatest nation God gave to man.” He has betrayed the trust the military has put in the Congress to give it the funding necessary to continue on the road to success. But they don’t care. They’re going to pick up Senate seats because of this war--can’t let anything change that. If you think people like Sean Hannity are just paranoid or overreacting saying that the Democrats are “invested in defeat,” listen to them now and tell me they’re not. If you can honestly say they are not investing in defeat, your name just might be Harry Reid.

By the way, the last bit of Jack Murtha’s statements says “they have won the war, the mission was accomplished.” This is strange in the fact that immediate sentence after that is “we cannot when it militarily, we can only win it diplomatically.”...The troops have won but we cannot win militarily? Well, that’s a bit of an odd statement, even more confusing when Harry Reid says we’ve LOST the war.

Before I leave, I would like to give kudos to Senator John McCain. McCain has long been a strong supporter for the War and he just may be able to do what George Bush hasn’t been able to do: change American opinion about the war. I love President Bush and think he’s a great President, but you’d never be able to tell that he’s had many successes during his Presidency from media reports, and it’s going to take more people to help begin a shift towards revealing the truth to the American people. Rather than going along with the pessimism towards the war, McCain and the Republicans and our military leaders look to the optimistic side. McCain said "Before I left for Iraq, I watched with regret as the House of Representatives voted to deny our troops the support necessary to carry out their new mission. Democratic leaders smiled and cheered as the last votes were counted. What were they celebrating? Defeat? Surrender? In Iraq, only our enemies were cheering." Thank you, Senator McCain.

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~CreepyNerd