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See, here's the thing. Harry Reid is a punk. You know them when you see them. They look over their shoulder to make sure they have an audience, double check that their big brother or sister is there to watch their backs before they start thumping their chests like they're tough - challenging "whomever" to DO something about it...the playground wussy-girl afraid of his own shadow when he's alone, that has to sleep with a night light.

[dreamy eyed and wistful] What I would give to put Harry out in the woods with a couple Marines, and watch them "talk to Harry" for a while about his opinions on where things are with the war in Iraq, and how well their brothers and sisters are doing as they get after the fight.

Alas, our guys in uniform are too disciplined and self-respecting to give the beat down to an unarmed idiot, disappointed as that makes me.

The time to pussy-foot around this issue of questioning someone's Patriotism is officially over. Harry Reid is NOT an American Patriot-his interests and concerns are solely based on seeing his name in the papers and staying elected; voted in by a seething, angry, frothing mass of Americans bent on making a point rather than being loyal to their country and doing whatever it takes to win a war. I find the lot of them pathetic and disgusting.

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Come on over here and tell me the war is lost, that the time has come to pack it in and let the Iraqis sort this mess out. Chastise me for sticking with a cause Harry says is hopeless, a mission he says never had any real chance of being "accomplished," or the idea that the Arab world would prefer tyranny and oppression to freedom and liberty, and I'll introduce you to a few Iraqis that would tell you otherwise. These guys, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis will be dead a very short time after we surrender and retreat, tails tucked and white flags waving.

I know how good it feels to criticize a President. Speaking truth to power just feels so...liberating; thumping your chest and challenging the big bad President is just awesome. Being against something and gathering together to speak out about it makes you feel alive, makes you feel like you're part of something bigger than yourself, and gives you this way-cool sensation that you're doing your part to "make America better." The problem here is that Harry isn't doing ANYTHING to improve America. Harry is improving Harry, and he's more than willing to see the deaths of countless people to prove it to you. Harry Reid is pathetic. Harry Reid is a waste of oxygen, and a sorry excuse for a human being. If ever a carbon footprint served no purpose, Harry the punk is it.

Having said the war was lost, Harry has embarked on every manner of political style and nuance to end it without ending it. He's tried "sense of the Senate" bills, most of which have failed. He's tried to attach restrictions and restraints on Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines - our warfighters - (along with his big sister America's Mother-In-Law™), and he's tried to play games with getting funds and resources to them so they can fight the war our Political heroes supported when it first began.

Having failed miserably in every attempt, he begins anew, going after our warfighters' commanders:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "incompetent" during an interview Tuesday with a group of liberal bloggers, a comment that was never reported.

Reid made similar disparaging remarks about Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said several sources familiar with the interview.

Funny, if I am not mistaken, Reid voted in favor of making Petraeus General. So too has he supported putting Petraeus in command in Iraq now, yet when Petraeus speaks, Reid essentially calls him a liar, just as he enjoys calling the President a liar. Since Reid has suggested he wouldn't believe Petraeus anyway, why are we still going through all these gyrations?

Because Harry Reid has no stones.

He could be submitting bill after bill after bill to end funding, and end it today, but instead he busies himself with finding ways to do everything BUT end the war he so desperately believes needs ending so he can take credit for it...without taking blame for the deaths that will surely follow. Apparently, Reid shares the opinion that:

If we leave, the blood spilled would be Iraqi blood and not American blood. And I think the American people might be OK with that.

Or so you would assume. Reid certainly believes SOME reaction will take place with US warfighters gone from the region. If he doesn't believe spilled Iraqi blood concerns Americans so much, why not just defund now?

But Reid has a plan. There are elections to consider and now is the time, and the Iraq war is the issue to give a leg up to his colleagues in the Senate and the Democrat party:

Reid is fully aware, according to Democratic leadership aides, of the disappointment among Democratic operatives over their unsuccessful attempt to set withdrawal dates for Iraq, and he knows that Democrats have not been able to show a dramatic string of legislative victories that impact Americans on a daily basis.

Other than a minimum-wage increase and a stem cell research bill, which Bush is expected to veto, Democrats have "not been able to push through anything that touches all Americans on a daily basis," noted one Democratic strategist.

However, Reid believes that Democratic proposals, even if they are vetoed by Bush or blocked by Senate Republicans, will demonstrate the "sharp philosophical divide" between the two parties on almost any issue, from Iraq to taxes to health care.

Reid believes illustrating that contrast will give voters, and even more importantly, Democratic senatorial candidates and incumbents, a platform to run on in 2008.

It is clear winning wars outside the US borders is not on Reid's agenda. Winning political wars at home, on the other hand, is ALL Reid cares about and he's unconcerned with the human toll that brings. To be such a man shames me as an American, and should shame his constituents. If ever there was thought to calling this man American Patriot, Reid's recent behavior puts that idea to rest once and for all.

Think about Reid as you consider Wikipedia's take on Patriotism:

Patriotism denotes positive and supportive attitudes to a 'fatherland' (Latin patria < Greek patrida, πατρίδα), by individuals and groups. The 'fatherland' (or 'motherland') can be a region or a city, but patriotism usually applies to a nation and/or a nation-state. Patriotism covers such attitudes as: pride in its achievements and culture, the desire to preserve its character and the basis of the culture, and identification with other members of the nation. Patriotism is closely associated with nationalism, and is often used as a synonym for it. Strictly speaking, nationalism is an ideology - but it often promotes patriotic attitudes as desirable and appropriate. (Both nationalist political movements, and patriotic expression, may be negative towards other people's 'fatherland').

Patriotism has ethical connotations: it implies that the 'fatherland' (however defined) is a moral standard or moral value in itself. The expression my country right or wrong - perhaps a misquotation of the American naval officer Stephen Decatur, but also attributed to Carl Schurz - is the extreme form of this belief. Patriotism also implies that the individual should place the interests of the nation above their personal and group interests. In wartime, the sacrifice may extend to their own life. Death in battle for the fatherland is the archetype of extreme patriotism.

Personal interests take Reid through his every political hack move.

He is no Patriot. He has no stones; no courage of his convictions, no love of Country over love of self.

I am ashamed he is an American.