Iraq: The Democrats Have A Plan! Run For The Hills!!!

Many of those who are reading this have probably never traveled to Marin County and Sonoma Valley, north of San Francisco. To give you an idea, it’s beautiful, rich, and very much to the left. Picture Berkeley hippies driving around in BMWs.

Now, meet Lynn Woolsey, the “unapologetically progressive” congresswoman who represents that little slice of leftist heaven. I want you to meet her because she has a plan for Iraq. Start shaking in your boots, shoes, or whatever footwear you might be donning while reading this post (if you’re barefoot, wear something or else your toes might just curl).

Anywho, here is the gist of her “Bring Our Troops Home and Sovereignty of Iraq Restoration Act”, in her own words (comments in italic are mine):

• Withdraw all U.S. troops and military contractors from Iraq within six months from the date of enactment.

In other words, let the Iraqis drown in their own blood and gore. Let’s do a Somalia redux; you know, get scared, cut and run, and then have to be involved in that cesspool 13 years later, in a grim ground hog day scenario…

• Accelerate, during the six-month transition, training of a permanent Iraqi police force.

This one would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic. Here we have Iraqi police and military forces who, by the Left’s own claims throughout our years of presence in their country, are undertrained, unmotivated, and riddled with corruption (can we say death squads roaming the streets, sometimes in their duty uniforms?). Unless they squeeze 48 hours of Navy SEAL quality training in a 24 hour day, this proposition is nothing more than a pathetic cover for “cut and run”.

• Prohibit the continued funding, except for the redeployment of troops currently in Iraq, of combat troops to Iraq.

See the first item. Enough said…

• Prohibit any permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq. (Despite official denials, bases are under construction, including one that includes a miniature golf course and a Pizza Hut).

The building of “hard site” bases is not an indicator of the permanence of said installations. Newsflash: morale and safety are greatly improved by building something with substance (go get shot at for a year and see how peachy you would feel if your digs amounted to a dusty tent vulnerable to mortar attacks). And stop crying me a river about miniature golf courses and Pizza Huts; would the woman have those who are putting their lives at risk every day sit on a cot and spend their off time sucking on a bowel clogging MRE?

• Authorize, if requested by the Iraqi government, U.S. support for an international stabilization force, which would stay no longer than two years.

Confucius say: how the hell do you figure that the Iraqi government will ask us for our help after we’ve told them to essentially go fly a kite? How do you think that a fancy-shmancy “international stabilization force”, which reeks of UN “don’t shoot until you have lost 3 of your buddies, taken 2 AK rounds in the gut, and have had a translator verify that your attackers verbally stated that they want to kill you in words understandable by an autistic child” rules of engagement would fare? And since when do you send any kind of interposition force (puke, gag, cough) with a mandate that says “go put your life of the line for exactly 2 years, after which you go home, come hell or high water?” Is the woman TRYING to get people killed for nothing? And last but not least, how does the ditz even know that the future Iraqi government will be one who will request such a stupidly criminal intervention?

• Prohibit U.S. participation in any long-term Iraqi oil production sharing agreements before the enactment by the Iraqi government of new regulations governing the industry.

Frickin’ great. Now fuel prices are going to go zipping through the roof because it’s Iraq best way to give us the bird for abandoning them, unless of course some unfriendly government comes to power, and decides to pull a “let’s milk the infidels to fund our violent hate of them” thing. Brilliant!

• Authorize an array of non-military assistance in Iraq, including reconstruction of a public-health system; destruction of land mines, recovery of ancient relics; and distribution of compensatory damages for civilian casualties.

Translation: let’s send civilians into a country that our troops were not allowed to pacify; oh, and let’s require them to all get a dotted line tattoed on their throats, right where the terrorists need to make the incision, as well as sign a waiver stating that the “international stabilization force” (gag, puke, barf) will do nothing for them because their intelligence system will be so truncated by political considerations that they are only authorized to take possession of the dead body to fly it home to grieving parents.

• Honor the sacrifice of our servicemen and women by providing full funding for every health-care treatment, and benefit that they are entitled to under current law.

Wooohoooo! Break out the champagne! Let all the troops worship at the feet of Lynn Wolsey, the fearless leader who fought to give them benefits they are ALREADY ENTITLED TO! What a risk taking, tireless fighter for the voiceless she is indeed!

Conclusion: OJ Simpson is a Democrat, and Lynn Woolsey is a fan of his. Don’t believe me? Hey, he could cut and run with the best of them, and she seems eager to learn.

(Crossposted at Veni, Vidi, Bloggi)

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