U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called on the Democratic leadership in Congress to condemn the full-page advertisement that appeared recently in the New York Times suggesting that General David Petraeus is a traitor.
“Every American, including a Washington special interest organization like MoveOn.org, has the right to voice their opinion on the Iraq war. But to suggest that the four-star General leading the fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq has ‘betrayed’ his country is abhorrent.”
In running this despicable ad, Move-on.org and their facilitators at the New York Times have carried the anti-war fringe to a new low.
MoveOn.org is suggesting that General Petraeus has ‘betrayed’ his country. This is disgusting. To attack as a traitor an American general commanding forces in war because his ‘on the ground’ experience does not align with MoveOn.org’s political objectives is utterly shameful. It shows contempt for America’s military leadership, as well as for the troops who have confidence in him, as our fellow soldiers in Iraq certainly do.
It is well known that Move-on.org holds significant power over Democrats in Congress. If their leadership fails to reject this ad, it will prove to the American people exactly whose interests they are serving in Congress and whether they are more invested in our defeat than our victory in Iraq.
Which brings us to the Cornyn Amendment No. 2934 (out of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008), September 20, 2007:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate
(1) to reaffirm its support for all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, including General David H. Petraeus , Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq;
(2) to strongly condemn any effort to attack the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all the members of the United States Armed Forces; and
(3) to specifically repudiate the unwarranted personal attack on General Petraeus by the liberal activist group Moveon.org.
To which the following members of Congress said “NO”:
| Akaka (D-HI) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Byrd (D-WV) Clinton (D-NY) Dodd (D-CT) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) |
Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Levin (D-MI) Menendez (D-NJ) Murray (D-WA) Reed (D-RI) |
Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Stabenow (D-MI) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR) |
To which the following members of Congress were cowards and didn’t vote:
| Biden (D-DE) | Cantwell (D-WA) | Obama (D-IL) |
You are known by the company you keep.
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1 Bill Levinson // Sep 22, 2007 at 2:15 am
Re: “You are known by the company you keep.” Indeed. Not only did MoveOn defame a distinguished Army officer before even bothering to hear what he had to say, it is arguably an anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic hate group.
Last year, MoveOn had to take down its Action Forum because of a scandal involving its knowing and willful promotion of hate speech against Jews and Catholics, and racist comments like “Rice and Powell are house slaves.” MoveOn itself published a derogatory photomanipulation of Pope Benedict that, if circulated widely enough–and copies are circulating on the Internet–will cost the MoveOn Democrats the vote of every single Catholic Democrat next year, along with the vote of every decent American who has no use for 19th century-style “the Catholics are taking over America” bigotry.
The Action Forum, under MoveOn’s full editorial control, included delightful comments like “The Catholics are raping your children” and “the Jews control all the media,” and even worse material.
Obama’s abstention was, by the way, deliberate. He said in effect that he wouldn’t dignify the Cornyn amendment by voting on it. No surprise from a phony smile on an empty suit who poses arm in arm with the prominent racist and anti-Semite Al Sharpton.