No substitute for victory

From The Washington Post:

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Iowa, April 3 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) stepped up her criticism of President Bush's threat to veto legislation that sets a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, saying that doing so would thwart the will of the American people.

Clinton hedged, however, when asked whether she would support legislation sponsored by other Democratic senators, including Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.), aimed at cutting off funding for the war on March 31, 2008.

The reason that she is hedging is because she knows that supporting legislation which would actually cut the legs out from under the troops in the field would doom her presidential bid.

Clinton took a sharp line against the administration in the current standoff over Iraq policy, accusing the president and Vice President Cheney of questioning the patriotism of Americans who call for an end to the U.S. involvement there.

Their patriotism is questioned for good reason. The fact is that when your nation's military forces are engaged in battle setting an arbitrary date for withdrawal amounts to nothing more than surrender. Imagine if the allied nations had set a hard date for withdrawal from Europe during the Second World War? Germany could have simply given ground slowly until the date arrived then gone on the offensive again. The swastika would now be flying everywhere from Palermo to Warsaw and from Paris to Constantinople.

Of course the Democrat leadership knows this. They are counting on it because a victory for the US in Iraq is a loss for them at the polls in 2008. This is why they are traitors, because they have placed electoral victory for their political party above the cause of victory for their nation's soldiers on the battlefield.

There is nothing wrong with disagreeing with the President. There is nothing wrong with opposing his political agenda. There is nothing wrong with building support in the legislature for blocking his legislative proposals. There is nothing wrong with going to the media to make the case that the President is wrong about something and urging the people to call their congressmen and the White House to express their disapproval.

However EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD is wrong with undercutting your nation's WAR EFFORT!

All I ask is that the legislators and the media figures and the activists who are actively pursuing a policy toward the war in Iraq which is deliberately calculated to give the Islamofascist enemy victory be treated by American society in EXACTLY THE SAME MANNER as a similar group of legislators, media figures and activists would have been treated during WWII if they had pursued a program deliberately intended to give Adolph Hitler victory in Europe and the Emperor of Japan victory in the Pacific.

Because the two things are morally equal. It would not have mattered if the Axis' US allies had been doing because they loved Hitler and thought Europe would be better off with him in charge of if they only wanted to bring down the Roosevelt administration and regarded the loss of Europe as acceptable collateral damage. The effect would have been the same - defeat for US forces in a war. It would not have mattered one tiny bit if their motives had been a genuinely patriotic desire to save the nation from the future economic ruin that the New Deal would cause or nothing but a naked desire to wield power for power's sake. The end result would have been exactly the same - defeat for US forces on the battlefield.

When the war is over and the American troops have returned home to their well deserved victory parade then the actions which led up to the war can be analysed and if there was wrongdoing it can be exposed and dealt with. But only after victory. Only after every pissant dictator and/or theocrat on the globe has been taught that, right or wrong, if the US says "JUMP" the only acceptable answer is "Yes Sir. How high sir".