Democrats in Aid to Insurgents [UPDATE]

ABC Showcases Take from Soldiers in Iraq on
Anti-Surge Resolution: 'Sick' & 'Treason'
Of the broadcast network evening newscast stories Tuesday night on the House debate over the non-binding resolution that "disapproves of the decision of President George W. Bush...to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq," only ABC's Jake Tapper included the views of soldiers in Iraq. Tapper's report on World News featured soundbites from two Army Sergeants in Ramadi, and both condemned the resolution. First Sergeant Louis Barnum declared: "It makes me sick. I was born and raised a Democrat, but when I see that it just kind of makes me sad." Sergeant Brian Orzechoski went even further: "I don't want to bad-mouth the President at all. I mean, to me it's treason."

[This item was posted Tuesday night, with audio/video, on the MRC's blog. The clip will be added to the posted version of this CyberAlert. (Audio is over-modulated, but that's how it aired on ABC's DC station.) But in the meantime, to listen to the MP3 audio, or to watch the Real or Windows Media, go to: newsbusters.org ]


DEMS START EFFORT TO DISAPPROVE
House Democrat leaders circulated a nonbinding resolution yesterday saying that Congress "disapproves of the decision of President George W. Bush . . . to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq."

The measure, expected to come to a vote by Friday, also says that "Congress and the American people will continue to support and protect the members of the United States armed forces who are serving, or who have served, bravely and honorably in Iraq." The only thing they support is CUT AND RUN.

Debate on the resolution is scheduled to begin today. It will mark the first debate in Congress on the war since Democrats won control of the House and Senate in last November's elections.

Democrat leaders in the House and Senate have vowed to force an end to U.S. participation in the war, and made debate over a nonbinding resolution a symbolic first step.

Democrats in Aid to Insurgents
It is a shocker, but the AP actually let loose a kernel of truth about the situation in Iraq in one of their reports for a change. To wit, if Iraqi insurgents wait long enough, the USA will leave and they can come back on the scene with guns blazing and knives sharpened for decapitations.

In the streets of Sadr City, the strategy of Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite militia leader, is clear: Lie low, avoid a showdown and hope to emerge even stronger after the Americans leave.

Leaders like al-Sadr know that the media and the Democrats are on their side. As Osama bin Laden’s chief lieutenant, Sheikh Ayman Muhammad al-Zawahiri , said in an intercepted letter, "I say to you: that we are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media." by Warner Todd Huston