SENATE DEMOCRATS STILL DEBATE IRAQ PULL OUT

Last week both the House and the Senate went on record and defeated resolutions calling for a timeline for a pull out from Iraq. Despite the fact that in both chambers the resolutions were soundly defeated, Senators John Kerry and Russ Feingold are introducing a resolution calling for a complete pull out from Iraq by July 1, 2007. This resolution has minimal support while still another resolution supported by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and has larger support with the Democrats calls for a phased redeployment of troops beginning this year. What part of no do these political leftist not understand. This attempt to rewrite a resolution that has already been soundly defeated is absurd. While the United States has not and will never set a timeline nor a date for an Iraq pull out the administration and all of the top military personnel have made it perfectly clear that a timeline is dangerous and that we will not be in Iraq one moment longer than is necessary. Setting any type of timeline whether a dated pull out as the Kerry resolution states or a phased pull out with a start date as the Reid resolution states would be like a bank taking out an advertisement in the news paper that says the following: " First National Bank would like to tell our customers that we have only the most advanced and technically superior security system in the world." Then placing the following tag at the bottom of the add: " If you are thinking about robbing First National Bank, the security system will be off and the back door open on Friday night at midnight...so help yourself!" I realize this was a rather lame attempt to illustrate my point but the truth is that the left for perceived political expediency continually raise the issue of putting some sort of timeline on Iraq. Even the most inept individual in the world has to realize that by placing any type of timeline on the pull out or redeployment of our troops is an open invitation for the terrorist and the terrorist insurgents in Iraq to sit back and wait for us to leave then move in full force to take over the country and set up their terrorist society and base of operations. Even if we redeployed to Guam as John Murtha has suggested the time it would take to get back into Iraq with a large enough force not to mention the additional loss of American lives taking back the country is unfathomable. Finishing the mission, giving the government and the Iraqi Security Force the time necessary to have the ability to control their own fate and protect their own country is the only logical and intelligent idea for Iraq. In any military situation revealing your strategy to the enemy is asking for defeat. Allowing a set timeline for pull out is a strategy for defeat and a prescription for disaster!

Ken Taylor