The Discerning Texan

Meanwhile the sheer, unadultrated cowardice of the majority of Democrats who are trying to peddle these non-binding resolutions designed to bolster our enemy cannot be excused.

Therefore I am going to do a Public Service here and define in plain English what overt and subliminal messages these Dems are in danger of sending to various interested parties listed below--all because these unprincipled prima donnas have absolutely zero political courage to do the right thing (whatever they believe that to be):

• How our Armed Forces hear the message: "we give lip service to 'supporting the troops' and are quick to hop over to Iraq on the taxpayers' dime for photo ops with you in the safety of the Green Zone--but we don't really support your mission and we are looking for the first lame excuse to pull the plug. We also are by our actions (if not words) going to encourage our enemies to kill many more of you; this will serve to discredit the party in power...";
• How our Enemies hear the message: "keep fighting the good fight, and by all means keep slaughtering innocents and killing as many American troops as possible--doing so will expedite our withdrawal from our commitments to these brave people and will leave 1/3 of the world's oil supply and revenues as 'booty' to who ever wins out in the genocidal battle between Shiite Iran and its proxies Hezbollah, and between Sunni Al Qaeda and Hamas and their sponsors in the Sunni Arab states, once we bail out. The deaths of their soldiers will of course eventually wear down the American people, and will ultimately prevent an American victory that would otherwise be likely--thus allowing us to say 'See! Bush's plan failed!' This will ensure that we appeasement-minded Democrats have a much greater chance to win the next election and cut deals to sell you all the nuclear technology and GPS satellites you may want--because what's a little Genocide when we can all be "friends" again..."
• How the other Moderate States in the region hear the message: "you had better start hedging your bets with more extreme states and/or Russia or China--you may even want to cut a deal with the Iranians. We may have the best military in the world, but America does not have the will to meet its commitments and cannot be depended upon when the going gets 'unpleasant'. So you had better find a trading partner and security partner who can..."
• What this message says to the American people: "You are not tough enough to handle the truth nor to handle a long fight against a determined enemy, unlike your ancestors. In fact: you are mostly too stupid to be self sufficient or to make decisoins for yourselves. You buy hook-line and sinker our tiresome platitudes and the slanted press coverage--you are so lazy and complacent in your comfortable lives that you actually buy-in to the garbage we are feeding you. This is good! Because we know what's best for you, and you must trust us to take care of your every need. But we are going to need money--LOTS of it--and that is why we are going to pretend 9/11 never happened and that Iran isn't about to nuke Israel, so we can gut the military and have Canadian-style health care! We are also going to pretend that there will not be a Bosnia/Darfur/Cambodia-scale genocide in the Middle East once we bail out--we'll just look the other way and try blaming it on Bush if it shows up on the news. We will raise your taxes, because we want to get more people dependent on big government--for their own good of course--and we will actually put the lion's share of the burden for this nanny state onto the backs of the most productive members of our society. But don't worry: they will want to stay productive and entrepreneural anywey, even though they are no longer rewarded for doing so. So, please don't take it personally when this robust economy tanks... we're doing it for your own good. Which is also why we will appoint judges to the courts who will leglislate rather than interpret law, and this is why we will eventually abdicate American Foreign Policy to the Appeaseniks in Europe and the UN, and to the 'higher' goal of Worldwide Socialism... " (strike up 'The Internationale' or 'Das Vadanya' here as appropriate)

"Cowardice" is almost too good a word for these Democrat low-lifes; I personally believe it to be sedition, and under Wartime Presidents like FDR or Lincoln, many of these people would be rightfully rotting in prison right now. If only...

UPDATE: For the overt and subliminal messages above, I want to stress that in their conscious minds that most Democrats do not consciously want the enemy to kill more Americans or innocents; but most Democrats--including any sickos who do not mind if a little blood is shed if it will benefit them politically--will do almost anything to stay in power, and when they sat on their hands in the State of the Union when the President mentioned the word "Victory", it spoke volumes.

Dr. Pat Sanity, a psychologist--who has a great Podcast called "The Sanity Squad" by the way--sums it up thusly (empahses mine). Be sure and read her entire post, she diagnoses and defines the psychological syndrome of Self-Delusion and Emboldening the Enemy: