-By Nancy Morgan
Cemetery workers are the new victims in the war on terror. Oh, for the good old days when bodies were piling up and they could feed their families.
Last week saw a dramatic drop in Iraqi death rates, a clear sign the surge is working. America, the Iraqi people and the cause of freedom are prevailing against a foe that would have the world regress to the 6th century. How does the media report this spectacular news?
McClatchy newspapers on Tuesday reported:
As Violence Falls in Iraq, Cemetery Workers Feel The Pinch
“A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that’s cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds”
In an effort at balance and to remind the world that Bush’s war is still, well, pretty awful, the article continues, “Even with less violence, many of those buried here are victims of the war, and the tragedy of each loss offers a counterpoint to workers’ worries about money.”
This is what passes for fair and balanced in the mainstream media. Ya gotta admire their consistency, if not their world view. Faced with the uncontrovertible fact of progress in Iraq, the media still manages to make lemonade from lemons.
At least the media is so blatant in their bias that most Americans have caught on (and moved-on to Fox News). Not so with our Democrat led Congress. Faced with the possibility of success in Iraq, they have chosen to try to sabotage the war effort.
First came the spin: ‘We may be prevailing militarily, but we’re failing, and Iraq is failing, in the political process.’ One can only thank God these guys aren’t members of the Iraqi Parliament.
When that sound-bite, endlessly echoed by the party faithful, didn’t take, the Democrats took more concrete steps to halt what they consider a Republican victory, meaning American victory in the war on terror.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill introduced a resolution to condemn the World War I-era killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks. Redefining this slap at one of our most crucial allies as a ‘moral imperative,’ Pelosi et al. set about alienating Turkey, and endangering the crucial resupply line Turkey offers to U.S. troops.
Turkey was suitably outraged. And unlike the phony outrage ginned up by Pelosi, this outrage is real and has already had real consequences. In response to last week’s approval of the resolution by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Turkey recalled its ambassador in Washington back to Ankara. In addition, Turkey’s parliament on Wednesday gave permission for the government to launch military operations into Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels, despite a personal plea from President Bush.
Explaining the timing of this Democrat resolution can be summed up in one word. Sabotage. Intentional sabotage of the U.S. war effort, in a time of war, for purely political purposes. As Thomas Sowell opined, ‘It is hard to avoid the conclusion that this resolution is just the latest in a series of Congressional efforts to sabotage the conduct of that war.’
Imagine. Instead of putting aside partisan politics in the interest of America, these Democrats are instead intent on doing whatever they can to sabotage the war effort. This is a fact, this is shameful and this should be shouted from the rooftops.
Even Pelosi pal and un-indicted co-conspirator, Rep John Murtha, sees this and recognizes this won’t play in Peoria. In an e-mailed statement on Tuesday, he said, “From my discussions with our military commanders and foreign policy experts, I believe that this resolution could harm our relations with Turkey and therefore our strategic interests in the region,”
Other Democrat sponsors of this ill-timed, futile effort to sabotage our war effort, are also abandoning ship. Leaving Pelosi to consider retreat. This time.
Though the left and some of the right have condemned author and pundit Ann Coulter for daring to call these guys traitors, I have to say I agree with her. Traitors. And, unlike Pelosi’s outrage, mine isn’t fake.
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Nancy Morgan is a conservative activist, columnist, talk-show host and senior editor for www.RightBias.com, a conservative news site.
Until 2001, Nancy was a producer in Los Angeles. Her company, Morgan Productions, was one of the very few conservative production companies on the west coast. Product included shows, documentaries, commercials and infomercials.
After 33 years of living in Los Angeles, Nancy decided to move to a climate more tolerant of conservatives, settling in 2002 in beautiful Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, where she lives today.
Nancy is a graduate of the National Journalism Center, former board member of Accuracy In Media and founder of Conservatives of Los Angeles and Carolina Conservatives. She is co-host of “Talk Back” at WGTN in Georgetown and active in conservative politics in South Carolina.
Her goal and her passion is making available the conservative point of view.
Nancy can be reached at: NancyVideo@aol.com