Seriously that it what it amounts to.  Hey enemy?  Kick back, here is when we will be gone. 

Apparently the enemy is too dumb to know how to win, so congress has decided to plan it for them.

Oddly (sarcasm) this round up of defeatism and surrender comes via the self congratulatory Daily Kos and Truth Dig:

S. 121, introduced on January 4th by Sen. Russ Feingold. The bill would give the Pentagon and State Dept. jointly 60 days to submit a plan for redeployment from Iraq, within 180 days from enactment. Cosponsors: Boxer.

S. 233, introduced on January 9th by Sen. Ted Kennedy. The bill would prohibit funds for any U.S. forces above the number of forces already there as of January 9, 2007, without a specific Congressional authorization for such increase. Cosponsors: Boxer, Brown, Harkin, Kerry, Leahy, Menendez, Sanders.

H.R. 353, introduced on January 9th by Rep. Ed Markey. This is the House counterpart to Kennedy’s bill. Cosponsors: Abercrombie, Conyers, DeFazio, Delahunt, DeLauro, Grijalva, Hinchey, Maloney, McDermott, McGovern, Meehan, Olver, Schakowsky, Mike Thompson, Tierney.

Honestly, you cannot make this stuff up.  Via Hot Air

Jail loos turned from East

JAIL bosses are rebuilding toilets so Muslim inmates don’t have to use them while facing Mecca.

Thousands of pounds of taxpayers money are being spent to ensure lags are not offended.

The Islamic religion prohibits Muslims from facing or turning their backs on the Kiblah — the direction of prayer — when they visit the lav.

Muslim lags claimed they have had to sit sideways on prison WCs.

But after pressure from faith leaders the Home Office has agreed to turn the existing toilets 90 degrees at HMP Brixton in London.

The Home Office refused to reveal the cost of the new facilities — part of an “on-going refurbishment”.

One Muslim former inmate said: “The least the Prison Service can do is make sure people can practise their religion correctly in prison.”

But a Brixton jail officer said: “If they didn’t get locked up for committing crime they would not have this problem. Yet we have to sort out their loos. If we weren’t paying for it as taxpayers I’d laugh my socks off.”

Yes they really did spit at (not on, at) him and call him names.  Via Hot Air.

Is this how the nutroots peacefully protest? Is this how they Support the Troops, but not the war?

Well this clip below has a familiar face to LSU, that of Joshua Sparling, the soldier I wrote about in 2005 who was recovering at Walter Reed, and recieved a get well card from a child that said:

Dear, Soldier, have a great time in the war and have a great time dieing in the war From migual Gallier ps DIE

I was pretty pissed then.  Michelle Malkin had a great write up on it too.

Well, he was at the rally in DC as part of the counter protest, this last weekend and got spit at, flipped off and called names.

But as the video shows, he is fairly level headed and fair about his experience, and even had a surprise for his girl friend.

Congrats and best wishes to you both.

I also include this video, from Hannity and Colmes where he discusses his repeated indignities.  In it he does detail the rally a bit more.

I make no secret of my admiration of Pat Benatar.  She is easily one of finest singers ever to hit the rock and roll business.  Aside from taking the industry by storm in the 70s, she has continued an incredible odyssey of musical invention through the 80s, the 90s and well into the new millennium.  Teamed with one on the finest song writers, producers and guitarists in rock and roll, the great Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, there has been pretty much nothing they have not done and cannot do, and do better then anyone.

I saw her in play in Tacoma a few months ago and the only indication of her age and the length of her career, is that she may not be able to hit all the high ones any more.  I assure you however, that she suffers no lack in that regard, for she sounds as incredible to me as the first time I heard her sing on some top 20 countdown in High School.

It’s a simple but potent message from the frontliners, the boots on the ground.

While the left may sing themselves to sleep each night comforted by their pseudo support mantra "Support the troops, not the war", the real troops are having none of it.

What the left does not get is that while they do not believe in the war, the troops do.  What the troops feel from their "support the troops, bring them home" chants is frustration that their nation does not believe in them and is abandoning support.

Watch the clip and see for yourself how the troops feel.

The question becomes can you support them and their ideals and not give them the support for the mission they are doing?  While the left sees no conflict, the troops feel it.  How can we support them and not equip them for success?  Oh sure, we give them armour, or guns.  Do we give them belief?  Trust? They also need the emotional support.

Because the war is winnable.  They know it.  They just wish you did too.