Washington’s overstretched, broken forces will face hail, freezing rain.

“What goode will come of pressing our fortunes against the Hessians?” asked one Congress Man. “Every day, I fear this conflict is becoming more and more like the French and Indian War.”

Slightly off topic but here is a must read:

False claims undermining U.S. troops

A joint statement issued by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), on the evening of President Bush’s State of the Union address, says, “The OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Americans, MILITARY LEADERS, and a bipartisan coalition in Congress oppose the President's plan to escalate the war.”

But in the comments by both Webb and the Nan-Harry tagteam, a definite “majority” is both flat wrong and a dangerous attempt to sway the thinking – thus undermine the morale – of our combat forces in the field.

How can anyone honestly say they support the troops when they make false claims that a majority of both military leaders and the rank-and-file no longer support what their organization is doing, particularly when the majority does?

Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway said, “Though the troops in the operating forces are being pushed hard by the operational tempo and the frequency of deployments, morale has never been higher, because they believe they are making a difference.”

Gen. Conway’s comments may be proven-out by the numbers of his Marines who voluntarily remain in service when they have the opportunity to leave.

As I stated in my latest piece at National Review Online, “Marines have far-exceeded all retention {reenlistment] goals for the past six years, and have already achieved 82 percent of their goal for Fiscal Year 07, and there are eight more months remaining in FY07.”

For FY06, Marines who were eligible for reenlistment for the first time (having just completed one hitch in the Corps) re-upped at 102 percent of the Corps’ goal. Older, more-seasoned, career Marines – those who have reenlisted previously – re-upped at 114 percent of the Corps’ goal.

Army retention figures are also high: And like the Marines, those goals have been met and exceeded since before September 11, 2001 with the highest percentages of reenlistments being recorded annually since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Fact is, the majority of the combatants on the ground in Iraq believe in the mission and the overall direction of that mission. They want the mission to succeed. They believe it will. They are sacrificing and re-sacrificing. They are willing to see the war through to completion. And to suggest that those combatants are so brainwashed and loyal that they would remain aboard a sinking ship – as some of my Dem friends like to suggest – is both condescending and baseless.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WThomasSmithJr/2007/01/29/false_claims_undermining_us_troops

What are the MSM going to to when the situation stabilizes, the Republic of Iraq emerges, and a foothold for freedom and democracy is reasonably well established in that region, and the bulk of our troops can come home? 

This is not only an example of media bias, it's an example of media complicity with the enemy, i.e. treason.  The Administration should call them on it, loudly!

Gee, Mark, another 250 + 1 Saddam.  We'd better get to work.

Creating more Terrorists, that is.  For who knows?  They just might run out of 'freedom fighters'.

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