How did we go from winning the war in Iraq to losing
overnight? Was this decided by the same committee that changed
"Peking" to "Beijing"?
These word changes are a fortiori evidence that
liberals are part of a conspiracy. On what date did "horrible"
and "actress" vanish from the English language to be replaced
with "horrific" and "actor"? Who decided that? (Meanwhile, I'm
still writing "Puff Daddy" in my nightly dream journal when
everybody else has started calling him "Diddy.")
When did "B.C." (before Christ) and "A.D." (anno Domini, "in
the year of the Lord") get replaced with "BCE" (before the common
era) and "CE" (common era)? "Withdrawal" is "redeployment,"
"liberal" is "progressive," and "traitorous" is "patriotic."
These new linguistic conventions -- like going from "winning"
to "losing" in Iraq -- simply spread like an invisible bacterial
invasion.
To be sure, last month the Democrats did win a narrow majority
in Congress for the first time in more than a decade. And it
cannot be denied that for the past 50 years, Democrats have
orchestrated humiliating foreign policy defeats for America. So
it is understandable that some might interpret their midterm
gains as a mandate for another humiliating defeat.
But that's not what the Democrats told Americans when they
were running for office. To the contrary, they claimed to be
gun-totin' hawks. A shockingly high number of Democratic
candidates this year actually fought in wars. And not just the
war on poverty, either -- real wars, against men with guns.
It was a specific plan of Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee chair Rep. Rahm Emanuel to fake out the voters by
recruiting anti-war veterans to run against Republicans. (And
when did "chairman" become "chair"?)
To the credit of the voters -- especially the American Legion
and VFW -- the Democrats didn't fool enough Americans to even
match the average midterm gains for the party out of power.
But the point is: You can't run as a phony patriot and then
claim your victory is a mandate for surrender. That would be like
awarding yourself undeserved Purple Hearts and then pretending to
throw them over the White House wall in protest. No, that's not
fair -- nothing could be as contemptible as throwing someone
else's medals on the ground in protest.
Is it the report of the "Iraq Surrender Group" that suddenly
caused everyone to say we're losing?
The ISG report was about what you'd expect if the ladies from
"The View" were asked to come up with a victory plan for Iraq.
We need to ask Syria to tell Hamas to stop calling for the
destruction of Israel. Duh! "Dear Hamas, Do you like killing
Jews, or do you LIKE killing Jews? Check yes or no."
Most of the esteemed members of the ISG were last seen on the
"Dead or Alive?" Web site. Vernon Jordan's most recent claim to
fame was getting Monica Lewinsky a job at Revlon when she was
threatening Bill Clinton with the truth. He's going to figure out
an honorable way to get out of Iraq? Continued... |