The Hill Street Blahg

It was reported yesterday that the president has endorsed General David Petraeus’ plan to put an indefinite hold on troop withdrawals in Iraq after July. He also announced U.S. troop combat tours would cut be from 15 months to 12 months, and said Army units will have a year of rest for every year of combat.

With all of the Democrat obstructionism going on between Congress and the Bush Administration, it was good to see President Bush do what was right for for our country and the Iraqi people. The President did what any morally responsible leader is suppose to do. He refused to cave in to the irresponsible Democrat leadership in Congress and took the advice of an authentic four-star General by the name of General David Petraeus.

Of course the usual suspect goal post movers in congress couldn’t wait to get in front of the cameras to once again display their complete failure of leadership. What they actually displayed was their misguided ability to put political pomposity ahead of responsibility. Here’s what the armchair Generals in Congress had to say shortly following the Bush announcement.

“The president has taken us into a failed war. He’s taken us deeply into debt. And … that debt is taking us into recession. We need some answers from the president,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

General Pelosi went on further to say as she was joined in her criticism of Bush by Senate Majority Leader and military expert Harry Reid, D-Nev.

“He is just dragging this out so he can put it at the doorstep of the new president of the United States…”

The Democrats in Congress just can’t accept the fact that the surge in Iraq has worked and once again has proved them wrong. Why would any responsible leader of our country want to pull out now when the sacrifices our brave soldiers have made are about to bear fruit? Americans may not approve of how this war has been managed over the last five years, myself included, but we Americans don’t like being losers either. Americans like to win and Senators Clinton and Obama might take note of that undesputible fact.