Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, July 09, 2007 3:32:08 PM
I remember when the coalition of nations, lead largely by President George H.W. Bush, kicked Saddam’s forces out of Kuwait. Many of the network news reporters (ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN) were literally standing the sands of Kuwait as they deliberately implemented their calculated effort to make "the economy" the new top story and convince the American people that the U.S. economy was so bad and the situation was so important and dire and that it was all the President’s fault. They didn’t waste any time making it their top story, because President Bush was riding a wave of popularity for a successful, brief war, and that’s why they were literally doing it from the sands of Kuwait.
The economy was all that mattered. Economic cycles? Pfft! If you had lost your job, it was the President’s fault. If your investments weren’t doubling, it was the President’s fault. Military success? Keeping the war quick? That wasn’t important.
Fast-forward all of these years later. It didn’t take long for the solidarity, patriotism, and clarity provided by 9/11 to give away to partisan assaults on President George W. Bush and a constant effort to undermine, badmouth, and second/third/fourth-guess our military efforts.
Maybe it is because the economy is actually strong. What happened to “It’s the economy, stupid?” How about some reporting on the clear connection between tax cuts and economic growth?
No, the focus is on death and destruction in Iraq. Our coalition overthrew Saddam. He was successfully prosecuted and executed. The Iraqis have had real elections. But all that matters is spreading the talking points of the terrorists and making the situation look as dire as possible.
Why? To win political offices for Leftist Democrats. Fighting terrorists doesn’t matter. Freeing oppressed people doesn’t matter. Economic growth doesn’t matter. What matters is doing whatever they (the Democrat-MSM alliance) can do to get “their” people elected to office. If it weakens us and costs us lives, isn’t that a small price to pay for making sure the “right” people get into office? You see even though we won in Iraq, the struggle against terrorists there must be portrayed as a “lost war”. They can’t afford politically for Bush to have been right. I can guarantee you that if we had a Democrat President, the very same conditions would be portrayed in a completely different light. If we hadn’t taken military action at all, the Democrats would blasting Bush for “inaction”. No matter what happens now - a pull-out, the surge working out, or coalition forces leveling the place with carpet bombing – the Democrat-MSM alliance will portray it as a disastrous defeat. To them, it is the same mantra over and over again: “Everything is horrible, and it is all Bush’s fault.”
It’s disgusting.
I’m not thrilled with a whole lot Bush has done, but how about we concentrate on kicking terrorist butt and protecting America instead of playing politics with everything the President does? He’s the Commander-in-Chief. This is his responsibility. Criticize him all you want on No Child Left Behind or for not doing “enough” to fight AIDS or "global warming". But support our military. Stop bashing our men and women in the military for the sake of taking Bush down.