Watch the video over at Hot Air:

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/01/26/video-gates-says-the-anti-surge-resolution-emboldens-the-enemy/

Two things strike me from this video:

1.  Listen to the political hesi-talk.  Just answer the bloody question!  Say what you feel.  You only have two years left, what are they gonna do? 

2.  He says he doesn't believe the Senators intention is to "embolden" the enemy, even though that's the result.  You know darn good and well that's what he wants to say, but won't.  Again anyone with a lick of common sense knows this resolution is saying in writing what the politicians don't have the guts to come right out and say.

All I've heard is that the American people want us to win and they support the troops.  Yet this resolution smacks directly in the face of that logic.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - THE TROOPS AND THE WAR ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE!

That's why this resolution is so dangerous.  It will demoralize the last vestige of solid support - the troops.  Once their will to fight is gone, it will truly be over.  The troops need the true support of their civilian leadership, not political power games.

Had the leftist politicians in this country stood behind this war and the President, we could have kicked butt and taken names well before today. 

Of course that is the solution of most on the left.  Let's move on.  We'll push off these problems on the next generation.  Just like we are doing with social security.  Just like we've done with education, poverty, taxes, etc.

I read this earlier today and it makes pretty good sense.  You know what redeployment gets us?  Korea.  We didn't finish that fight and we're still there going on 60 years later.   Containment gets us another Cold War.  Containment gave us ten years of Operation Northern and Southern Watch.  "Well that's why we didn't remove Saddam in '91, we knew we'd have these problems."  Yeah?  Well we would've also had ten years plus to deal with issues.  We would've had a military which was twice the size then than it is now to deal with any issues.

Let's just go ahead and leave.  Let's give the pacifist, leftist idiots who can't read a history book what they want.  In ten years they can have another war to protest and argue about in congress because that's what we'll have my friends.  And next time it'll take a lot more than 22,000 troops to take care of it.
 
The Air Force is cutting 40,00 personnel from it's ranks within the next 5-8 years.  The other services are going to be forced to cut as well.  The policy wonks think we have a strained military now?  Wait until we have to fight the next fight! There are no MEN in Washington anymore.  That clip from "The Path to 9/11" summed it up pretty well, all we have in Washington are a bunch of blow hard cowards. 

We can't fight the war, it's costing to much.  Hell, just raise the minimum wage (except for American Samoa, right?)  Let's talk about child poverty again Sen Kennedy while children are stoned to death by the animals of Islam.  Let's groan and moan about all the old social problems you didn't fix for the last fifty years, but somewhow now, we'll get it done.

Support the war effort.  60 years ago people planted victory gardens, now we want to give illegal alien criminals welfare and drivers licenses.

We face an enemy who MURDERED 3,000 innocent men, women and children, our fellow citizens.  But wait, Valerie Plame was upset.  Some Iraqi rpisoners have panties put on their heads - oh the outrage!.  But Nicholas Berg had his head sawed off on video - he must of had that one coming I guess.

Stop playing games!  Have some guts!  You people (Clinton, Kennedy, Hegel, etc.) don't support the war - just say it.  Be honest.  The only reason you voted for it was to get your butts re-elected; more political games!  Be honest, at least we could respect that a little.

This is not a damn "surge".  These troops are reinforcdements to go over and stop the SOB's from killing our guys and innocnet civilians.  Stand up and say you don't support the effort, because you obviously don't.  This resolution proves it!  You flaccid, slack spined morons don't even have the courage to come out and say what you believe.  This resolution is tantamount to not giving the soldiers bullets.  "We want the troops to have what they need."  Everything except reinforcements right?

We'll just play semantic games, the american people are stupid anyway, right?

I've had it!  Let us fight and kill the monsters who attacked us.  That's right, I said kill!  These fanatics don't deserve to breath the air the good Lord made.  Let's get a little payback.  We have a duty to defeat our enemies, I have sworn to do so myself.  Let us do it!

Just work on your nice social initiatives and let the real men get some work done.  Go drink your Starbucks and get your botox injection while you eat a minimum wage free tuna sandwich.

There's work to be done and real Americans want to do it!  I'm really pissed off and I'm posting this without even doing a spellcheck.  I'll fix it tomorrow.