Thursday, May 03, 2007
Oliver North - Long-term Consequences
I wonder if this translates to "Think gas is expensive now?"...
On the CollinsReport.net, Oliver North relates some military opinions:
"In the days since Mr. Reid announced that 'this war is lost,' I have heard from dozens of the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Guardsmen and Marines that I have covered in eight trips to Iraq and two to Afghanistan for FOX News. Some of those who correspond with me are there now, others are home. Some are preparing to deploy again. None of them agree with the Majority Leader’s assessment.
One e-mail from Ramadi, Iraq observed: 'Good thing this guy Reid wasn’t around in 1940 when Winston Churchill promised the people of Great Britain nothing but "blood, toil, tears and sweat."' Another, a National Guardsman, recently returned from Mesopotamia with a Purple Heart, noted that the Senate Majority Leader has become 'Al Qaeda’s most powerful ally.' At Mississippi State University, a Marine corporal I last saw along the banks of the Tigris River – now a college student – asked me, 'Do those people who think we’ve lost this war have any idea what things will be like if we really do lose?' It’s an important question that none of the potentates on the Potomac who just voted to withdraw U.S. troops appear willing to address."
