Friday, July 06, 2007
Downercrats Push for the US to Get Out of...Afghanistan?
You heard right - Downercrats, delusional as usual, are not only pushing for a full-fledged US defeat in Iraq, but also want one in Afghanistan as well.
The leader of this decrepit movement of losers? Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, a complete whackjob who should be in prison, not in Congress fucking up America.
Out-of-Afghanistan rumblings on the Hill
Pelosi and Reid, as demented as they are, realize that if their pathetic party pushes for a US withdrawal in Afghanistan and al Qaeda take advantage, the Downies' control of the Congress is gone for the foreseeable future.
Maybe that would be a good thing in the long run.
You heard right - Downercrats, delusional as usual, are not only pushing for a full-fledged US defeat in Iraq, but also want one in Afghanistan as well.
The leader of this decrepit movement of losers? Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, a complete whackjob who should be in prison, not in Congress fucking up America.
Out-of-Afghanistan rumblings on the Hill
When they won control of Congress in November, Democrats pressed their case to withdraw troops from Iraq and refocus on Afghanistan, but some are growing impatient with U.S. operations in Afghanistan as well.
A few congressional Democrats go so far as suggesting that the Pentagon should pull out of Afghanistan now, while others say that troop withdrawal will be addressed after the military is out of Iraq.
Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), a senior defense authorizer, wants the U.S. out of Afghanistan immediately, calling operations there “futile” in trying to effect political change in a country with a tangled history.
Most other Democrats want to focus on Afghanistan, with the goal of withdrawing the military down the road after the country is stabilized and any new Taliban resurgence quashed.
With a few exceptions, congressional Democrats no longer show any hesitation about withdrawing the military from Iraq. But they are more circumspect about Afghanistan, saying that the Bush administration let the situation worsen by shifting attention onto a protracted conflict in Iraq.
“We should have never gone to Iraq, because we would have been out of Afghanistan [by now],” Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) said in a brief interview.
Murtha, the chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee and a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq, said that by September, when he takes up the fiscal 2008 war supplemental funding, he would have a better sense of how to handle Afghanistan.
Yet making the argument that the U.S. needs to get out of Iraq and stay in Afghanistan can be politically challenging. While Democrats regularly note that the war in Iraq has now gone on longer than World War II, the U.S. has been in Afghanistan longer than it has been in Iraq. And arguments that Iraqis need to take control of their own country can be applied to Afghanistan as well.
The Afghanistan effort enjoys much more support among the American public, and Democratic leaders have sought to burnish their homeland security credentials by presenting an unwavering backing of the war there.
Both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) have stressed over the past several months that the U.S. should refocus on stabilizing Afghanistan and capturing Osama bin Laden, the architect of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
“The Taliban played a role in the 9/11 attacks by providing a safe haven for bin Laden,” said Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s spokesman. “Preventing a successful resurgence by the Taliban is a national security objective of the United States, and our troops will remain in Afghanistan until the objective is achieved.”
Pelosi and Reid, as demented as they are, realize that if their pathetic party pushes for a US withdrawal in Afghanistan and al Qaeda take advantage, the Downies' control of the Congress is gone for the foreseeable future.
Maybe that would be a good thing in the long run.
