Infamy

On Friday, 218 members of the U.S. House of Representatives said, "Fuck you; so what if you die?" to our fighting men and women in the Middle East. Please excuse my use of an ugly profanity, but that only begins to express how angry I am with those 218 people.

The new Congress has had almost three months to respond to the need to provide funds for the health and safety of the military, and they have come up with legislation that cannot possibly pass, and which leaves the troops in jeopardy still longer. I commiserate with those of you who have friends and relatives fighting for our country who will die unnecessarily before the House sees fit to pass a clean appropriations bill, without all the pork, and the proscription to surrender by August 2008.

Why, in God's name, have the infamous 218 chosen to embolden the enemy by providing them with a date certain when they can celebrate their victory in Iraq, and schedule their passage to the U.S. so as to continue their elimination of the infidels?

In the midst of this debacle, I am somewhat comforted by the fact that I didn't vote for any of the 218. When the smoke clears on this, I hope they will find themselves back in their hometowns, running used car lots. That's a sleazy endeavor suited to their skills.

I'm just as skeptical as you about the claim that the Surge is working, but I am hoping that a show of force is what it's going to take to defeat an enemy that only respects force and not human life. And, even though I didn't vote for any of them either, I pray that the more rational minds in the Senate will be able to effect a compromise and save our troops.