Stop the Pelosi-Murtha ‘Slow Bleed’ Today

Proposed by John Murtha, ’slow bleed’ would do exactly what it sounds like: gradually take away the resources our men and women need to fight the terrorists in Iraq. It would limit reinforcements, and possibly even close the bases that offer support and shelter for our troops. The Democrats had hoped to keep the ’slow bleed’ plan under the radar by adding it onto other bills, but now even the liberal press are reporting on the story.

A Washington Post editorial last Saturday described the Murtha ’slow bleed’ plan as “crudely hamstringing the ability of military commanders to deploy troops” and went on to say this: “Mr. Murtha’s cynicism is matched by an alarming ignorance about conditions in Iraq. He continues to insist that Iraq ‘would be more stable with us out of there,’ in spite of the consensus of U.S. intelligence agencies that early withdrawal would produce ‘massive civilian casualties.’ He says he wants to force the administration to ‘bulldoze’ the Abu Ghraib prison, even though it was emptied of prisoners and turned over to the Iraqi government last year. He wants to ‘get our troops out of the Green Zone’ because ‘they are living in Saddam Hussein’s palace’; could he be unaware that the zone’s primary occupants are the Iraqi government and the U.S. Embassy? It would be nice to believe that Mr. Murtha does not represent the mainstream of the Democratic Party or the thinking of its leadership. Yet when asked about Mr. Murtha’s remarks Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) offered her support.”

Even the liberal columnist E.J. Dionne criticized the Murtha ’slow bleed’ plan, saying that “the sense that the proposal has been crafted in part for reasons of political convenience and the intricate restrictions it would place on the military are precisely what could doom it.”

Those are exactly the reasons ’slow bleed’ should be doomed, and we need your help to do it:

The Murtha ’slow bleed’ strategy is a dishonest and dangerous response to the challenges we face in Iraq. Together, we can and we must stop Congress from passing the Murtha plan.

*This note was sitting in my inbox this morning. I actually heard Laura Ingraham talking about this today on the radio. The entire thing is disgusting to me and I’m beginning to really dislike the Democratic party as a whole. I’m not happy with the Republican party that wishes to allow criminal aliens to exist among non-criminal US citizens. Why can’t people just do the right thing? We have laws on the books that are not being enforced.

As much as I don’t like what’s going on today in Iraq.. we do still have a job to complete. I want our troops to come home and especially when in the back of my mind I’m thinking that the Iraqi people don’t want their new democratic society badly enough. However, we are still over there and to pull our troops out for the wrong reasons would further escalate the violence in my opinion AND give the terrorists that we are after a new sense of purpose. Besides, our troops want to finish their jobs over there. We don’t want the troops that have already died to have died in vain.. do we?