A Call for Change – Not Surrender

Sometimes it hurts to be a news junkie. In fact, it hurts more and more lately, which is why I started writing about it. Yesterday was yet another one of those times. I heard Senator Clinton declare that the November, 2006 elections were a call for change. Pandering to the left wing that she feels she needs to get the democratic nomination for president, she joined the cut, run, and surrender movement, just like the rest of her socialist, European would-be peers of 2009.

Is it any wonder that politicians are so low on the list of admired professions? The disconnects from reality come one after another, without regard for any type of historical fact or logic, and based on the assumption that we, here at the bottom, are stupid and/or short-sighted and/or without memory.

She indicated that it would be irresponsible of President Bush to pass the Iraq war on to his successor. This statement alone is wrong on a number of levels. We have already had two presidents that have passed the war on terror on to their successors. They served concurrently and were named Clinton. President Bill told us all that we were getting two for the price of one and that was what we got (I took him at his word on this and he followed through on this promise. I know this because President Hillary was hard at work, as President Bill had promised, concocting a failed socialized health-care plan – clearly a Presidential task.). Presidents Clinton ignored the terror war that became public in 1993 with the first World Trade Center bombing and continued through their administration, passing it to their successor – George W. Bush. Hypocrisy alert – Hillary is slamming someone for doing something that she has already done as one-half of the Presidential team.

One more thing – The war in Iraq is not the point. The war in Iraq was never the point. The war in Iraq is over – We won. The Iraq war was a subset of the war on terror. That is the war we have yet to win, and are in the midst of. That is why the strategies had to change; it’s a different war, with a different, albeit related, enemy having different tactics and different goals. Could you people at the top please wake up?

She indicated that if the congress doesn’t stop the war in Iraq by January, 2009, then she, as President, will, and that if she had been President in 2002, she would not have gone to war in Iraq. She had the chance to not go to war. She voted, and it was not the vote that she now says would have guided her action. Her vote is the opposite of what she now says she would have done – or not done. Is this like voting for the war before you voted against it? I thought John Kerry was not running this time around.

The much-cited call for change reflected in the 2006 elections was, indeed, a call for change – not surrender (although that is one type of change that is possible). The problem is that everyone believes it was a call for the kind of change THEY want. I was happy as a clam with the administration’s conduct of the Iraq war as were most Americans as reflected in the polls when the Iraq war was still being fought. We won.

Again, that war was over years ago. Just because there is still fighting in Iraq does not mean that it is the Iraq war. It is the Iraq front in the Terror War. We are now fighting the war on terror in Iraq, on our borders, and elsewhere. The fact that there is a front in Iraq is, apparently, confusing to our politicians and does not allow them to separate the various skirmishes. They had better learn how pretty quickly, because it is likely to become even more “confusing” as time goes on. The war on terror is the one that I’m not happy about and most Americans are not happy about. We want to WIN that one too! Americans want to WIN! Surrender in Iraq is surrender in the Terror War. I want to WIN!

This should not be interpreted as a slam on our former half-President. From what I can see from down here at the bottom, most of our politicians are looking for ways to surrender in one way or another.

We are also in the process of completing the process of surrender on our southern border. WIN. Don’t surrender.