WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Roberts Gates said Friday that a congressional resolution opposing President Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq amounts to undercutting U.S. commanders in a way that “emboldens the enemy.”
He also said the Pentagon was now studying whether it could accelerate the deployment of the five additional Army brigades that it has announced will be sent to Baghdad between now and May to bolster security in the capital.
At his first Pentagon news conference since taking office, Gates was asked his reaction to the debate in Congress over the effect of such a nonbinding resolution. “It’s pretty clear that a resolution that in effect says that the general going out to take command of the arena shouldn’t have the resources he thinks he needs to be successful certainly emboldens the enemy and our adversaries,” he said.
So I guess that Gates is now claiming that Congress and around 65-70 percent of the American people are emboldening the enemy with their opposition of the Bush troop surge plan. Which would mean that Congress and 65-70 percent of the American people are traitors--perhaps even "enemy combatants," since they are apparently supporting the terrorists with their own opposition of the Bush administration's escalation of the war. This type of talk from the administration is beyond fantasy—beyond delusion. We’re looking at an administration that is so besieged and so out-of-touch with any sense of reality. This is an administration that will lash out in anger and violence against anyone who opposes them—whether it will be the Democratic Congress, the American people, Iraq, Iran, or whoever else.
This Bush administration will send this country into ruin.
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