A Dagger for the Troops
By James Taranto
Wall Street Journal
Don Surber of the Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail notes an appalling statement by New York's senior senator, Chuck Schumer, on the Senate floor yesterday:The violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al Qaeda said to these tribes we have to fight al Qaeda ourselves. It wasn't that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here.
It is certainly true that the sheikhs have been instrumental in the Anbar success, but they didn't do it on their own. As The Wall Street Journal reported last month, "The success in Anbar Province, which lies west of Baghdad, hasn't come easily. The key to the U.S. campaign has been recruiting, cultivating, and rewarding tribal leaders."
As Surber notes, Schumer was one of 77 senators who voted to send the troops to Iraq. Now, his quest for partisan advantage, he is falsely portraying them as unable to do anything right. It doesn't make us proud to be a New Yorker.
I believe Chuck Schumer should go to Anbar province and repeat to our Marines what he said on the Senate floor. The man has absolutely no shame.
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 7:06 AM
2 Comments:
This is another gem from our friends on the left. Our enemies do not need a propaganda wing they can just play congressional Democrats comments. I am sure our soldiers are proud to defend Freedom for those who smear them in the press. Let me guess…UpChuck Schumer “supports the troops”.
What Chuck Schumer said is pretty much representative of what liberal Democrats think: The US military is incompetent. They've believed this since Vietnam. What's happened to the party of Truman?
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