The Democrat Tet

For some reason, probably polls showing falling support for the war, the Democrats have launched an assault on the administration, with no regard for the morale of troops who are now fearful that the government will abandon their mission. I just saw Senator Biden in a speech to the Brookings Institution on Tuesday trying to straddle both sides. His main proposal was that the administration report monthly to the Congress on why the war isn't going better.

Of course all this is orchestrated. The same phrases occur again and again. The effrontery of these people, especially their hypocritical outrage over Karl Rove's remarks yesterday and Ted Kennedy's rude attack on Donald Rumsfeld, certainly indicates a desire to pull the rug out from under our troops and sow more doubt among the public. The MSM is complicit in this, as always. The rising viciousness of rhetoric from the left really sounds as if they are so focused on appeasing groups like MoveOn.org that they no longer care about America or anything else. America has traditionally spoken with a single voice in our foreign policy, but, as in Vietnam, we're being forced to fight on two fronts, one against American politicians determined to undermine our efforts. I can't help but believe that these people put their own political ambition ahead of the good of this country to the point of disloyalty to those who are defending us. They have abandoned civility, dignity and honesty in their zeal to capitalize on every negative allegation. They have smeared our own people and given more credence to the claims of terrorists that to our own military. They have also provided propaganda to those who hate us in Muslim countries. Yes, they have the right to shoot off their mouths, but they don't have the right to be excused for their irresponsible, anti-American rhetoric. And if they ask, yes I am casting doubt on their patriotism, because they have put political opportunism ahead of their oath to support and defend the Constitution.

What worries me is what they're doing to our troops with their continuing slanders, and maybe more seriously, what they're doing to the confidence of the American people in the nation itself. They might as well send money to Al Qaeda. Karl Rove was spot on about the left's reaction to 9/11 and everything since then.