Democrats Say We're too Patriotic!

Christopher Chantrill writes at The American Thinker about the recent incident in which Vice President Cheney spoke on the subject of Al Qaeda and the question of what strategy would be most wise in Iraq. The Democrat party wants to cut and run. John Murtha refers to it as a "slow bleed" in which the troops would be cut off at the knees while the Democrat leadership dances in the aisles of congress. All the while the Surrender Party would, of course, proclaim that it was doing this "for the children". One is tempted to point out that the Dems consider us all to be children in need of continual foster care provided by a leviathan nanny state.

Among the numerous issues on which Democrats are hypersensitive to criticism -- or as you and I might say, critique -- is patriotism. Do not dare question a Democrat's patriotism, at least not like Vice-President Cheney:

"I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we will do is validate the Al Qaeda strategy," the vice president told ABC News. "The Al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people ... try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit."

Speaker Pelosi was having none of that:

"You cannot say as the president of the United States, \'I welcome disagreement in a time of war,\' and then have the vice president of the United States go out of the country and mischaracterize a position of the speaker of the House and in a manner that says that person in that position of authority is acting against the national security of our country," Pelosi said.