When General David Patraeus was unanimously confirmed by left-wing Democrat Senators and those Senators with commonsense, Democrats had nothing but praise for General Patraeus' forthrightness and honesty during his Senate confirmation hearings.
Now that President Bush's and General Patraeus' surge of 30,000 troops has thus far been successful, these same left-wing Democrats are singing from the same surrender songsheet. Success of the surge is seen in the statistics: a 74% drop in dead civilians and a 66% drop in wounded civilians among many other indicators of success.
Many Democrats who voted for General Patraeus' confirmation -- who are invested in America's defeat in Iraq -- began disparaging General Patraeus and his successes in Iraq even before he began giving his report in the House of Representatives on Monday and in the Senate on Tuesday. Democrats desparately want to regain the White House in 2008 and if a Democrat support group calls General Patraeus a traitor in a heavily discounted "New York Times" advertisement to help them achieve their political goals, so be it.
What the Democrats are doing in introducing cowardly surrender-to-our-enemy resolutions is to ensure that the American people will shun their party in presidential elections for decades to come. Indeed, after their near treasonous actions during the Vietnam War, aided and abetted by the hate America crowd in the "Old Media," the Democrats lost nearly every presidential election. Presidents Carter and Clinton were the exceptions only because they disguised themselves as moderate Democrats who would be tough on national security.
This week in Congress, the American people saw the Democrats dig an even greater hole for their party, with regards to the national security of this country, ensuring for themselves paltry results in presidential elections for decades to come.