January 26, 2007

Weasels Wobble

President Bush has authorized the U.S. military to capture or kill Iranian agents in Iraq who are plotting attacks against U.S. and coalition forces. That's the good news today about the war on terror - instead of caving in to the Democratic Party's demands that we declare defeat and get out of Iraq, Bush is finally doing what he should have done two years ago: getting tough with Iran, the single worse state sponsor of Islamist terrorism worldwide that is fueling the terrorist insurgency in Iraq.

Pledge update: More than 16,000 people have now signed the online pledge that they will refuse to support any Republican senator running for reelection who votes for any resolutions being pushed in the Senate by the many defeatist Democrats and a few retreatist Republicans in the U.S. Senate that oppose the president's new military and political strategy in Iraq.

The pledge is simple and straightforward. It reads: If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.

Sign it here. Help put some backbone into Republicans senators who are or may be on the verge of caving into the Democrats' plan to lose the war in Iraq.