The Emasculated Congress!

(Emasculate: "to remove the testicles of...")

Normally, I post once a day to “IoF” but today, I have something stuck in my craw and I just have to spit it out.

From news reports, over the past few days, including this morning, it is looking more, and more, as if our heroic Congressmen, and Congresswomen, as well as our stalwart Senators are, little by little, convincing themselves that the brave thing to do is surrender in Iraq.

They are seriously talking of a “draw down” of troops within 6 months. Same difference. It is just another way to force our warriors to slink away from a confrontation with the enemies of this country. It is doing damage to the morale of our troops that will, in some cases, never, ever, be repaired. It is also opening the door to the shores of the US for the terrorist.

The sheer ignorance, the sheer cowardice, of our leaders, in the nations legislature, is stunning!

Don’t get in my face and tell me not to question their patriotism! That is exactly what I’m doing!

Your tell me,… how patriotic is running away? How patriotic is yanking the rug out from under the men and women who have sacrificed so much in this war on terror? How patriotic is it to tell the families if those warriors who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, that they died in vain. How patriotic is it to denigrate the Commander in Chief, before the world, in a time of war?

Now, I’m talking about Democrats and Republicans alike, even one from my own Party and my own state! We Tar Heels want him home. He will not be returned to office.

I have been a Republican all my life, since I was old enough to register at the age of 21. I am now in my mid-sixties and I am sick to death of the expressed cowardice in my Party and the total lack of leadership capabilities. Republicans control both houses of Congress and still are too weak to get their iniatives passed! That’s pitiful!

I want a party that will not be swayed from that which is right. I want a party that will tell the MSM to get lost. I want a party that will ram legislation down the throats of Democrats ‘til they choke. I want a party that will stack the Supreme Court with conservatives and make the Congress like it. I want a Party that will advocate total support for our military and will take the leash off and tell them to go win… and use whatever means are necessary. I want a party that will torture the living daylights out of the enemy… if it will save American lives. I want a party that doesn’t give a rip what the remainder of the world thinks of us… period! I want a Party that will wall off our Southern Border (with Mexico) and incarcerate any illegals managing to cross that border, anyway, and force them to spend the remainder of their lives at hard labor maintaining the infrastructure of our transportation system. (Cleaning ditch banks and such!) In short… I want a party with guts, with testicular fortitude!

Look as hard, and as long, as I may, I do not see anything like that in our nation’s capitol. What I DO see is a bunch of wimps! Whining, weaseling, groveling wimps! My God… these are the poor pitiful chumps in charge of America?? May heaven help us, for they surely can’t!

The fools in Congress do not seem to be aware that disengaging from the “insurgents” in Iraq will not be disengagement with the Islamic Terrorists. Not only will Iraq become a part of “Greater Iran” in a matter of weeks, but the terrorist, no longer engaged in Iraq, will find they now have the time on their hands to better organize and begin striking in the heart of America and you can bet your bottom dollar they will.

I urge you to write you Congressmen, and Congresswomen, and Senators, and tell them how utterly shortsighted any move to begin withdrawing our troops from Iraq, anytime before our mission there is complete, will be. Tell them how the safety of your family depends on the US troops keeping those terrorists penned down in Iraq and Afghanistan. But above all, tell them how disgraceful, such a move would be and that you will remember it when you enter the voting booth in 2006 and 2008.

The utter cowardice of those gutless wonders in Congress, and the Senate, is just breath taking. Somehow, we as citizens of this land, must try to screw up enough courage in that helpless, trembling, mass we call the Congress, to shame them into doing the right thing. Not the easy thing, but the right thing.

Not only is their conduct towards the war in Iraq distasteful, it is disgusting and disgraceful!

“Longstreet”