Okay, let me get this straight. Congressman John Murtha goes on NPR and brags about how he and other Dems including Speaker Pelosi are crafting an amendment that will:

• put impossible conditions on our military to meet before Congress will fund their efforts in Iraq…

• and that this will gradually leave the men and women putting their lives on the line to protect you me without the equipment they need to defeat their enemies…

• and that eventually the situation in Iraq will "implode" because of all this.

I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t heard it myself. You won’t find this bit a braggadocio if you read NPR’s transcript of Murtha’s February 14 interview (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7396160&ft=1&f=3), but fortunately Sean Hannity got the tape and played it on his February 15 program. I heard that tape and I can tell you that Murtha did brag and did use the word "implode" to describe what he foresee would happen in Iraq because of this amendment. Here is another sanitized report about this amendment, this one a February 15, 2007 artcile from the WASHINGTON POST website (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500157.html):

<<That included drafting legislation to require the Pentagon to meet certain standards for training and equipping the troops, as well fixing the time that military units must be given at home between deployments. "That stops the surge (in troops) for all intents and purposes, because ......they cannot sustain the deployment," said Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, who said he would attach the conditions to legislation providing nearly $100 billion for the military.>>

There is a word for people who seek to undermine the security of their country: traitors.

If you doubt that our military can succeed in making Iraq a stable enough nation to give its new democratic government a chance to become permanent, read the following letter from an airman serving in Iraq, sent to Rush Limbaugh, who read it on the air and posted it on his website (www.rushlimbaugh.com):

<<Hey Rush,

I am scratching my head here. None of this makes any sense...but I wonder what you think about all of this...

The national news media shows lots of our American servicemen and women dying over there in Iraq and getting killed, helicopters being shot down, roadside bombs going off...etc...etc. Yet, when you are there, when you work with Americans and Iraqis who are actively engaged in re-building the country, who are out going after the enemy...there’s this ever-present sense of optimism, this prevailing upbeat mood of doing good. Just go talk to the wounded servicemen at Brooks or Bethesda. [RUSH: And I have. He's right.] They’ll tell you the same. Likewise, the Iraqi gentlemen (civilians) I worked with were excited about their economic prospects. They were eager for their families to experience a better life than the life they had under a totalitarian regime.

Rush, there’s an upbeat mood out there in Iraq. The country and its new democracy are moving forward. And the enemy hates it.

On the subject of "civil war" or "civil strife" in Iraq...

From what we can tell...there’s no "civil war" or "civil strife" as the news media puts it. The terrorists are coming from outside the country and killing civilians – as many as possible – to gain a foothold in Iraq. And they play this stuff on TV to make us sick. It’s working. We are getting sick, but Iraq is getting strong. If there really is civil strife in the country...then WHY don’t WE hear statements in the news about Shia leaders taking responsibility for Sunni killings, and vice-versa? WHY? This is why: Because they aren’t doing that Rush! THAT’S WHY we NEVER hear news reports from the so-called "civil strife" combatants themselves. Because there aren’t any. The IRAQIS are trying to build-up their country and make it work. MEANWHILE the enemy comes and kills everyone they can, and they run away from the scene (or die in the blast themselves).

One more thought...

I hate doing math, but think about this…

Rush...there’s anywhere from 500 to 1,000 road vehicle convoys per day in the country of Iraq. [RUSH: Five hundred to 1,000 road vehicle convoys per day in the country of Iraq.] One or three of these vehicle convoys (at most) get hit by an IED each day, which destroys maybe one or two vehicles. Most convoys have anywhere from 20 to 100 vehicles. NOW, what are your odds (e.g. CNN reporter) of being tagged by an IED????

In Summary...

I remain confused, amazed, and dumbfounded by the news media view on the war. And yet Americans are buying it. WHY??? How can we believe only one side of the story without seeing the whole picture, the whole story as it unfolds? Does ANYONE really know (other than those who are there) what’s REALLY happening in Iraq??? Is there any chance of getting any of this news reporting being done right???

America is doing good things over there. Our troops are awesome. They are an inspiration, a model of courage and of selfless patriotism. Why don’t people back home trust them?

Mega Dittos Rush.

Very Respectfully,

Tazz>>

I wish I had a good answer for Tazz, but I don’t. All I can tell him is that there are Americans who do support him and his comrades, and we pray every day for the success of their mission and for their safe return home as soon as possible.

It is brave people like Tazz, not to mention the citizens of this very country, which Murtha, Pelosi, and other traitors – both Dems and Republicans – are betraying and putting in even greater danger.

I could say more, but right now I’m just too angry to trust myself.