The troops have to endure hardships… then they have to face the enemy abroad. The General comes to testify only to listen to how he is going to lie and distort the truth as the Democrats showboat for the camera’s. It appears that the Democrats want to relate the Iraq war with Vietnam. Sure sounds like Vietnam if you listen to them… and it will be if the Dems get their way. Vietnam could have been won if we wouldn’t have tied our hands in that war and we certainly can win this war if our resolve is there. I like one of the Republicans who quoted Reagan who won a Cold War that no one for years thought would ever be over. How many years did we have to fund that War? And how long will we have to fund the war now if we pull out and America becomes the great paper tiger? Thanks to Bizzy Blog for the following observations about Schumer the Slanderer.

Bloggers have caught a politician saying one thing in a speech, while carrying a very different rendering of a critical passage at a supposed “transcript” of that speech.

The difference is significant.

The transcript whitewashes a slander on the performance of US troops in Iraq delivered by a United States senator.

Specifically, New York’s Charles Schumer gave a made a speech on the floor of the Senate last week ascribing the turnaround in the Anbar province in Iraq to the locals, and discrediting the notion that American troops could have had anything to do with it.

Here is the relevant portion of Armchair General Schumer’s speech you will hear at the YouTube video:

And let me be clear. The violence in Anbar has gone down in spite of the Surge, not because of the Surge.

The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from Al Qaeda said to these tribes, “We have to fight Al Qaeda ourselves.”

However, that section of the “transcript” of Schumer’s speech posted at his Senate web site (a backup screen cap, in case the transcript gets revised at a future date, is here) reads thusly:

And let me be clear: the violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge.

The lack of protection for these tribes from al Qaeda made it clear to these tribes, “We have to fight al Qaeda ourselves.”

Sweetness & Light appears to have been the first to catch the discrepancy. Allah at Hot Air and Mark at Weapons of Mass Discussion, where I first learned of it, have also weighed in on this.

S&L’s take:

Mr. Schumer will say anything to try to bring about America’s defeat in Iraq and in the war on terror in general. For the Senator is also a traitor.

But, it turns out, Chuck Schumer is not only a liar and a traitor, he is a coward as well.

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