Time for Dems

To Stand Up

And Be Counted

The Dems have finally been called on their bluff by the brilliance of fast acting Republicans who proposed a House Resolution for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and have brought it to the floor of the House for a vote as the last vote before Congress takes its Thanksgiving break,

Congress Jack Murtha has been waving the Democratic banner of withdrawal for the second half of the week, rallying Democrats as President Bush and other Republicans started turning the corner on the low of criticism that has surrounded the administration as of late.

Though Murtha is "hawkish", he is still a liberal Democrat from a union heavy western Pennsylvania who appeals not to logic or strategy, but only to emotion, in attempts to manipulate his peers and the public into caving into his brand of liberal sentiment. Republican Senator Young stated it well when he pointed out that Murtha has spoken more this week than than the sum of his twenty-four year career.

But, the real question has never been raised. How can we even consider bailing out of Iraq when it is clear that Al Queda is clearly entrenched in Iraq? Why would we give Iraq to Al Queda after we have paid such a cost? What would become of not only our safety, but those Iraqis who do not subscribe to militant Islam? Would not the generations that follow us charge us with murders and perhaps even the genocide of countless if abandon our mission in Iraq now? Yes, we pay a cost for our work in Iraq, but are we must count the cost and make the moral choice.