Rep. Lynne Woolsey (D-CA) took to the floor of the House this week and called our war in Afghanistan, an epic failure, a moral blight and a national embarrassment.
Did you see how she used her notes? That reminds me of when Ted Kennedy gave his closing comments in the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. Either she had one sentence per page in giant block font or she should be dealing cards in Las Vegas.
More importantly, if she had said that we were on a fool's errand in trying to turn Afghanistan into a Swiss-style democracy, I would probably agree with her. However, to call it a moral blight is a direct reflection on the troops who are fighting it. Are they fighting an immoral war? Ill-advised at this point? Perhaps. Immoral? No.
Of course, this is the same dolt who wrote a letter on official stationary to a judge urging lemiency for the son of a senior aide. The man had been awiting sentencing for rape. She later apologized stating that she "didn't know all the facts". In addition, she wanted to revoke the Boy Scouts charter because of their policy on gays. She was also the idiot who got Cindy Sheehan into the US Capitol, where she was arrested during George W Bush's 2006 State of the Union speech.
I know that Woolsey and the Democrats are denying any insult to our military, but if it is, indeed, a moral blight, then what does that say about the ones who are fighting the war? You can't get out from that, Ms Woolsey. You need to make an apology to our military.
This is just another glaring example of how, when you really get down to it, the Democrats don't much care for our military.
Of course this is the same dolt who is offended by a million Pakistani men marching in the street to defend the nation's blasphemy laws. Maybe that's why our presence in Afghanistan looks like a failure to her. Oh, wait a minute, Gary Fouse wants to condemn U.S. aid to Pakistan, which is mostly directly related to fighting the Taliban, much as we despise ALL of our allies in the region (Zardari, Karzai...) but he wants to extol our fight in Afghanistan, as if they were happening on different planets.
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