Iraq

9/11, Barack Obama, Iraq, Political wind, War on Terror

Debra Burlingame about Sen. Obama’s “invade Pakistan” speech

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Debra Burlingame spoke with syndicated talk-radio host Mark Levin this evening, leading off about Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s “illconsidered” speech where he suggested that the United States should invade Pakistan. In addition, she spoke of the Democratic Party’s deliberate undermining of our national defense and efforts in Iraq:

“I think there are people on the Hill who know perfectly well how strategically important Iraq is in this terrible war that we’re facing. But I think its politics. I think they have to beat down this President — and they started very quickly after 9/11 — to gain power back and they’re willing to put Americans and this country in danger to do it. I think that there are others who are naive, who believe what their advisers on the extreme left tell them. Maybe they’ve made a bargain with the devil, I don’t know, but it is a sad day when a Congressman of this United States says that a victory for the U.S. military is a bad thing for the Democrats.”

Here is the full interview:

Editor — Debra Burlingame is the sister of Charles Burlingame III, who was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 that terrorists hijacked and then crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. She is also a former lawyer, a director of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, and a co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America.

Iraq, Political wind

Gray Lady Hedges: Ralph Peters

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Ralph Peters, this morning in the New York Post, on this article in the New York Times:

This matters. Because left-wing America-haters may disparage The Post and every other paper in the country, but they cling to the Times more avidly than Linus clutches his security blanket.
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But the potentially fatal problem remains the cowardice and selfishness of politicians in both parties who care far more about retaining their offices in the 2008 elections (or gaining higher ones) than they do about Iraq, our troops or our national security.

If the situation in Iraq continues to improve, let’s not forget which pols bailed out – and not just the Reid-Pelosi-Murtha Democrats, but the Republicans who ran for the trees at the first drop of rain.