If you put five or so American flags behind you, raise your hands like a saint, and are photographed from below so that you appear to be eight feet tall, does that make your disparagement of the ability of the U.S. armed forces to win in Iraq more cred…

The U.S. Army is broken, worn out and living hand-to-mouth from fighting in Iraq and may not be able to meet future military threats to this country’s security, U.S. Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. They’re…

I appreciate the update.

DO republicans support our troops? When you cut taxes at the time of war, and have your Secretary of Defense say he wanted a “cheap war”and troops have to be satisfied with the stuff they get, not the stuff they want, you DON’t Support Our Troops.

When Senators Evan Bayh and Teddy Kennedy bring an amendment providing $213,000,000 for Armored Humvees, and out of the 39 Senators who vote AGINST the Amendment, 38 are Republican, your party DOES NOT support the troops. One of those 38 Republicans who voted against the funding was Elizabeth Dole, since she felt it was a waste of money and jeapordized the tax cuts. Of course Elizabeth Dole is the head of the NRSC for 2006 and she has done a lousy job in recruiting and fundraising, and is involved in a dispute with the FEC over returning illicit funds. As an individual running 2006, would you want to stand next to her?

When the leader of your party jeapordizes Military recruitment, and increases terrorism and hatred in the world, you don’t support our Troops, nor do you genuinely care about the Iraqi people when you think repeatedly insult their religion.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God’s good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.

Let’s pray for Our Troops, For Our Country, and For our Leaders–That Our Troops would not grow weary in well doing, that God would give us favor with our enemies, and that God would give our Leaders wisdom.
http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/Winston_Churchill/3.htm

I tried, but after investing 5 hours of my Wednesday in a trip to the nearest conveniently located VA clinic and coming home worn out from the drive I’m going to have to settle for some link roundups again.

The Dems continue to demand specifics from the Bush administration, but also refuse to give the American people specifics on what they would prefer. They say they want the troops withdrawn, but in the same breath say that they don’t want to cut and run.

Besides the short but excellent analysis provided by Mean Dean over at LaShawn Barber’s Corner, there is a must-see graphic. Rob over at Say Anything covers Democrat reaction to the speech as well as the “news” headlines. QandO Blog exposes the hypo…

Giant Cranium Syndrome or GCS is more common than you might think. Many have been reduced to quivering blobs by this horrific diagnosis. Not John Kerry though, he’s just too much of a scrapper to let something like this slow him down.