The Fighting GOP

As you can see from the left column, the vast majority of my posts have been on Iraq.  During all those posts, we were up to about 17,000 hits per month.

Like many other bloggers, I was trying to get the word out that things were finally turning around in Iraq, but not being reported in the MSM.  The weird part of it was that, according to Michael Yon, the MSM reporters had quit coming to Iraq…and yet they continued to write on something they weren’t seeing first hand.  That’s like giving a blow-by-blow description of a baby’s birth from 20 miles away.  The picture won’t be accurate.

Then courageously two guys who had been on an anti-Iraq tear (participants in a liberal think tank) went over to Iraq to see what was going for themselves.  I guess they, along with a million others, had been reading Michael Yon’s posts about the progress being made and wanted to see for themselves.  Definitely admirable.

They were absolutely astounded at the progress and wrote a story about it.  However, when they got home, they were torn apart by the liberal MSM who didn’t want positive things reported, and these two guys had gone against that edict.  They defended themselves and their story.

After that, the MSM was forced to start recognizing what President Bush had been saying since a couple of months after The Surge began.  Not many reports, mind you, but at least they were finally reporting on the success The Surge had been evoking.

Then came Hillary’s smarta** remarks about it requiring “a willing suspension of disbelief” to believe General Petraeus’ report to Congress that alot of things were good, some bad and some that still needed to be accomplished.  Her remark, and MoveOn’s one-page negative Petreaus ad, were uncalled for and cheap shots. Because had it not been for General Petraeus’ methods, I truly believe there would be NO good news to report.  But leave it to Hillary to put it down because her name was not involved with something positive.

Then shortly thereafter, Hillary said that when she became President she would immediately cut the Pentagon’s budget by $1 billion or more.  Gee isn’t that deja vu?  Didn’t Bill visit such severe financial cutbacks on the military that when we needed them to fight for us, they weren’t ready?

Sorry, but we just can’t have our military crippled again.  Not in this climate of terrorism.  Therefore, I decided to switch gears on this blog and focus on doing my little part to shine light on Hillary.  A light so bright that, hopefully, it would show her imperfections to others.

I want to get back to writing about Iraq soon, because once again the only reports I’m hearing are our soldiers’ body counts.  And that’s not right!

So, if you see Iraq posts mixed in with Hillary posts, you’ll know why!