Friday, April 20, 2007
Harry Reid: Clueless shipdit (Part deux)
The Campaign for Working Families PAC weighs in on Harry "Sleepin' at the Ritz" Reid's shipdittery:
"On Capitol Hill yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) joined a press conference hosted by anti-war liberals and declared, 'This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.' First of all, the surge has just started and fewer than half of the reinforcements that the president ordered to Iraq are there. Most are still on the way. ...
"Now, let’s consider the message Senator Reid is sending. He’s just announced to the world that in the view of the leader of the United States Senate, the nation thought of as the world’s sole super power is incapable of stopping at most 25,000 to 30,000 men in Iraq.
"What are the implications of that statement for dealing with Iran? Or a growing and more powerful China? In keeping the ocean trade routes open? What does it mean for any beleaguered democracy in the world facing a threat right now? Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the emerging democracies in Eastern Europe are counting on us to defend them. Would America stand with Israel if attacked again? Senator’s Reid’s statement that America has lost will make a great jihadist recruiting slogan on Al-Jazeera!
"Are the liberals so lacking in stomach and resolve that they are willing to give up and surrender Iraq to the Islamofascists? Do they have any degree of comprehension about what it would mean for the United States and the civilized world if a nation with Iraq’s resources fell into bin Laden’s hands?
"If the United States leaves Iraq in defeat, radical Islam would surge throughout the region as we retreat, and other Middle Eastern nations would fall like dominoes, potentially collapsing the global economy. Perhaps that is a risk Reid is willing to take. Regardless, I find the rush by many on the radical Left to embrace America’s defeat repugnant."
"On Capitol Hill yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) joined a press conference hosted by anti-war liberals and declared, 'This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.' First of all, the surge has just started and fewer than half of the reinforcements that the president ordered to Iraq are there. Most are still on the way. ...
"Now, let’s consider the message Senator Reid is sending. He’s just announced to the world that in the view of the leader of the United States Senate, the nation thought of as the world’s sole super power is incapable of stopping at most 25,000 to 30,000 men in Iraq.
"What are the implications of that statement for dealing with Iran? Or a growing and more powerful China? In keeping the ocean trade routes open? What does it mean for any beleaguered democracy in the world facing a threat right now? Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the emerging democracies in Eastern Europe are counting on us to defend them. Would America stand with Israel if attacked again? Senator’s Reid’s statement that America has lost will make a great jihadist recruiting slogan on Al-Jazeera!
"Are the liberals so lacking in stomach and resolve that they are willing to give up and surrender Iraq to the Islamofascists? Do they have any degree of comprehension about what it would mean for the United States and the civilized world if a nation with Iraq’s resources fell into bin Laden’s hands?
"If the United States leaves Iraq in defeat, radical Islam would surge throughout the region as we retreat, and other Middle Eastern nations would fall like dominoes, potentially collapsing the global economy. Perhaps that is a risk Reid is willing to take. Regardless, I find the rush by many on the radical Left to embrace America’s defeat repugnant."
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Friday, April 20, 2007 
