Worthless….

“A day after President Bush pleaded with Congress to give his Iraq policy one last chance, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee rebuffed him by approving a nonbinding resolution declaring his troop increase in Iraq to be against “the national interest.”

The committee voted 12 to 9 to send a resolution of disapproval of the president’s Iraq policy to the Senate floor next week, setting up what could be the most dramatic confrontation between Congress and the Bush administration since the war was launched four years ago. Many Republicans voiced anguish over the president’s policy, but only one, Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), a co-sponsor, voted in support of the resolution.

While some lawmakers and antiwar activists have dismissed the resolution as largely meaningless, senior Republicans and White House officials have worked furiously to minimize Republican defections, worried that a large, bipartisan vote would have significant political and international repercussions.

“In an open democracy, we voice our agreements and disagreements in public, and we should not be reticent to do so. But official roll-call votes carry a unique message,” said Sen. Richard G. Lugar (Ind.), the Foreign Relations Committee’s senior Republican. A vote for the resolution “will confirm to our friends and allies that we are divided and in disarray,” he said.

I applaud Senator Lugar and he is right in so many ways. Others are also right because the resolution is useless as the President - not the Senate nor the Congress - have any say in the Command of the troops in the field.

Yet for Biden and Hagel this isn’t about anything except face time before the cameras and only because they have always opposed the war do they get it.

In the field on the front lines right now the troops are wondering, “What the hell?” The enemy we face think of us in disarray and that they caused it by their “success”. But of course the enemy we have truly faced - that has dwarfed to nothing the effect of the insurgency and Al Qaeda - are those such as Joe Biden, Chuck Hagel, Murtha and other pansy media whores who would sell their grandmothers if Tim Russert smiled at them and called them, “Good dog”.

Note that they offer no alternative to the current plan except to throw to waste the sacrifices of our men and women out window and choose to say - if only to blame the President - that Iraq is too touch, too far gone for the greatest country on earth to stabilize.

Indeed it might well have been except for those who at home had consistently hindered our efforts by undermining the people’s confidence both in the President and the United States of America by their constant fault finding.

I’m not talking about general disagreement between Democrats and Republicans or even those who find fault with the conduct of the war. What war has ever been flawless? Sure their have been mistakes, yet there have been fantastic successes and war is, as Georges Clemenceau said, “a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”

But the Bidens and the Hagels and the Murthas have gone far beyond just general criticism - far beyond it. They have in fact committed a form of treason by placing politics and their own selfish political ambitions before our own national security, they have placed personality before principle.

In some cases such as Senator Jay Rockefeller they have provided aid and comfort to our enemies, and in other cases they have outright leaked sensitive information if only for the reason of thwarting the President, again for purely political motives.

How long we will tolerate them - for every nation gets the leadership it deserves isn’t known. One thing for sure, if God forbid we suffer defeat in Iraq or another attack on our shores, the Bidens, Hagels, Murthas, of our Govenment will be held accountable.