About that war on terror medal...

Brian Bresnahan:

I have earned an award which recognizes my service in a war that doesn’t exist, at least as far as some Democrats in the House of Representatives are concerned.

According to a March 27th House Armed Services Committee memo penned by the new Democratic leadership, the term “global war on terror” is not to be used.

So, what in the world am I to do with the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal I was awarded for my service in Iraq?

If the war doesn’t exist, should the medal also not exist?

The same memo calls the term “global war on terrorism” a “colloquialism.”

So should we change the name of the medal to the “Colloquialism Medal?” That’s a whole lot of medals to change for all of us who’ve served to fight terrorism throughout the world and been awarded the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal. We’d also have to change all the Global War on Terrorism Service Medals for those who’ve earned that award.

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In pursuing defeat in Iraq, they’ve tried to dissect the war on terror into unrelated, individual actions. This allows them to deny the fact that we daily battle Al Qaeda in Iraq and doesn’t recognize it as part of the war on terror, thereby making that part of the war being fought in Iraq unworthy of prosecution.

It allows them to make Iraq a separate issue, which in turn makes their pursuit of defeat in Iraq more palatable to the public.

The fact that so many want to precipitously pull out of Iraq, while completely disregarding the reality of Al Qaeda there, makes them worthy of the ostrich medal. Because if Al Qaeda isn’t worth fighting in Iraq and we can afford to stick our heads in the sand with regard to the danger posed by leaving them unchecked, why are we fighting them anywhere in the world?

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There is more.

Democrats appear to be up for a battle on semantics but not for defeating the enemy. The Democrats remain our enemy's best hope for victory. Many of them has already adopted the ludicrous position that we have been defeated militarily in Iraq. That will never happen, but the enemy may win the war politically in Washington with the help of its useful idiots.

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