As we all know by now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been cozying up to Syrian President Bashar Assad, and we also know that three House Republicans have visited Syria this week to meet with him, too.
Well, we know they want to wash their hands of the Iraq war before (presumably) a Democrat president take office, and now we learn that a House committee wants to ban the use of the phrase ‘global war on terror’ in the 2008 defense budget, and any other legislation that has anything to do with … the global war on terror. Via the Military Times (emphasis added):
Love.it. Especially Vietnam vet and POW Rep. Sam Johnson’s comments about Rep. John Murtha:
Yesterday, as Red State noted, far left blogger after far left blogger wrote with righteous outrage over General Petraeus supposedly “only” meeting with Republicans last month and informing them on the situation in Iraq – essentially giving them a ‘what you need to know’ briefing on the situation on the ground.
Debra Burlingame pens another spot-on piece about Democrats and their national security priorities (or lack thereof):
