House and Senate- Vote for Defeat

This weeks vote to remove troops from the battlefield while they are still fighting has obviously weighed heavy on me...I have friends there...I am headed that way too. I've been very disheartened to learn that many US senators do in fact WANT us to lose. They stabbed those brave soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in the back...deep.

I don't quite know what to think about it. Politics in our country has reached an unprecedented low point.

I take comfort in knowing that the US populace does not believe the same thing...in spite of what the liberals might think the last election said.

But the citizens of this country need to understand and take note of who voted for defeat...and hold them accountable.

I thank God we still have a president who will surely veto this vote for defeat.

Last week, a similar measure passed the House by a 218-212 vote. It called for a U.S. troop withdrawal by the end of August 2008. The Senate bill starts the troop pullout just three months from now, with a complete withdrawal expected by March 31, 2008.

Each bill also features $24 billion in pork-barrel spending. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid kept it in to buy support from reluctant members. It's nothing but blood money for those who otherwise might be troubled by running from a fight we can still win.

Given Congress' runaway spending, its members' apparent willingness to be bought off and its disgraceful abandonment of the troops, this will go down as one of the most venal votes in the last 50 years — perhaps ever.

As usual, President Bush hit the nail on the head in a speech Wednesday to the Cattlemen's Beef Association. 'If we cannot muster the resolve to defeat this evil in Iraq,' he said, 'America will have lost its moral purpose in the world and we will endanger our citizens. If we leave Iraq before the job is done, the enemy will follow us here.'

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