"Why are the Democrats doing this?"  That's the title of ITM's Omar's last post.  The tone of desparation in his words are so upsetting to this old friend of his.  I tried to reassure him that the funding won't stop, and the troops will stay...as long as Bush is in office, but with the strides we are making in Iraq, the donks may be desparate to end it before we win!  The one thing they cannot allow is a success in Iraq, and they might actually grow their cojones [HT: Rosemary ]big enough to actually stop the funding.  Here's some of Omar's plaintive questioning of Democrats;

"For four years everybody made mistakes; the administration made mistakes and admitted them and my people and leaders made mistakes as well and we regret them.
But now we have a fresh start; a new strategy with new ideas and tactics reached after studying previous mistakes and designed to reverse the setbacks we witnessed in the course of this war.

This strategy although its tools are not fully deployed yet is showing promising signs of progress.
General Petraeus said yesterday that things will get tougher before they get easier in Iraq and this is the kind of fact-based realistic assessment of the situation which politicians should listen to when they discuss the war thousands of miles away.
We must give this effort the chance it deserves and provide all the support and constructive critique, not the ‘war is lost’ empty rhetoric."

Meanwhile, General Petraeus is in America, when he should be in Iraq doing his job, but because of the shenanigans of our lefties, he's here trying to drum up support for the surge and the new strategies.  

  "We have achieved some notable successes in the past two months, killing the security emir of eastern Anbar province, detaining a number of key network leaders, discovering how various elements of al Qaeda Iraq operate, taking apart a car bomb network that had killed 650 citizens of Baghdad, and destroying several significant car bomb factories. Nonetheless, al Qaeda Iraq remains a formidable foe with considerable resilience and a capability to produce horrific attacks, but a group whose ideology and methods have increasingly alienated many in Iraq. 
With these successes in mind, and the preponderance of the members of congress infected with Bush Derangement Syndrome, it is not out of the realm of possibility that these whack jobs could actually shut off the funds for the fight in Iraq.  Deranged people do inexplicable things all the time.  With that in mind, and the possible damage to our troops and our country, I am going to pass along a suggestion of a caller today to Rush Limbaugh's show.  He wanted to know what would happen if the deranged cut off funds, and what did Rush think about the possibility of the American people funding the effort?  Rush doesn't believe they have the cojones to end the funding, so he poo-pooed the suggestion.  I personally don't think Rush is taking in to account the severe degree of their BDS. 

Judging from the generosity of the American public in such efforts and causes as the Fisher Houses (I write hundreds of thank you letters for the Fisher Houses in San Antonio, and they're all over the world!!), the Center for the Intrepid, and other public-donation funded projects [requires free registration] going on in America, I am convinced that the American people would be writing checks and doing fund-raisers from bake sales to silent auctions to fund the troops so they can finish their jobs!  Are you paying attention, Democrats?  Your votes did not speak for most Americans.  Thanks to blogs, and our booming economy, we've learned how to speak for ourselves!