Every once in a while there are clear eyed moments on Capitol Hill.
One such moment occurred yesterday, according to an eye witness who contacted the Tatler. As he was waiting for the Capitol subway, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) apparently became physically agitated as he watched a TV monitor. The image wasn’t of earthquake victims in Japan, nor news of a pending nuclear meltdown there. It wasn’t even a picture of Libya’s madman Col. Muammar Qaddafi.
No. What unsettled him was a picture of General David Petraeus, the Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The general was talking about military progress in that country. Petraeus was testifying before the House Armed Services Committee and could be seen on a large TV monitor at a House of Representatives subway stop, which ferries members of Congress to the Capitol Building.
As the House staffers who surrounded him knew, Rep. Kucinich has repeatedly sought to de-fund the Afghan war. The top one of the congressman’s web sites, “kucinich.us” screams out in capital letters, “ACT NOW TO END THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN.”
According to one House staffer who was standing at the subway stop beside Kucinich, the Democrat seemed troubled watching the American general. He told the Tatler, ”His neck was craned up at the TV with a zombie scowl on his face, like a stock broker witnessing a market crash.”
Our family considers that Generals Petraeus and Mattis, Admiral Mullen, SecDef Gates, SecState Clinton, and CinC Obama are providing outstanding leadership to our son, to his fellow Marines, and to all our troops, in a long, tough, grinding war.
What my wife and I really appreciate, is that what this bipartisan leadership team is telling the American public, about the war, matches very closely with what young Marines tell my wife and me personally.
That speaking-of-truth is the very definition of leadership integrity — to put the troops ahead of politics.
An outstanding website for professional, non-partisan information on the war is Small Wars Journal … this site is much-read by Marines at every rank.
As for non-partisan, troops-first merits of this Tatler story, I regret to say that (in my opinion) no such merits are evident.
Please try again … our troops deserve no less.
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“As for non-partisan, troops-first merits of this Tatler story, I regret to say that (in my opinion) no such merits are evident.”
Kucinich wants our troops to lose, he wants their sacrifices to be null and void, other than as a debt of honor he and his sort never will honor. What’s to be non-partisan about?