The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. — H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
In case you missed it, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) made history on Thursday, April 19, 2007. On that date, referring to the War in Iraq, he declared, "this war is lost." Never in the history of this country has the leader of the US Senate declared a war lost while American troops are still in combat in that war.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a statement that cut to the heart of the Democrats' cowardice and grandstanding for the left wing when he noted that if Reid and other Democrats truly believe the war is lost, then they should vote to defund it now. Instead, the Democrats have lined the funding bill with deadlines and pork in order to prolong the public debate and score points with their supporters.
But Reid does have supporters for his statement. I'm sure he found solace three weeks later on May 5, 2007 when a supporter of his statement said, ". . . a U.S. congressional bill calling for a troop withdrawal from Iraq was proof of Washington's defeat" and, ". . . . This bill reflects American failure and frustration." But that supporter, Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri also went on to say, "But this bill will deprive us of the opportunity to destroy the American forces which we have caught in a historic trap."
And then we have House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), third in the line of Presidential succession, traveling to Syria, a country which the U.S. broke off diplomatic relations in 2005. The U.S. Constitution implicitly gives the President the authority to conduct foreign policy. In order to make that responsibility explicit, in 1798 President John Adams initiated the Logan Act, which forbids any American — "without authority of the United States" — to communicate with a foreign government with the intent of influencing that government's actions in any "disputes or controversies with the United States." The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Syria in 2005, so no communication with that country's government could possibly occur "with the authority of the United States."
Violation of the Logan Act is a felony. Pelosi arguably committed a felony when she traveled to Syria and whispered behind closed doors with Bashar al-Assad, Syria's terrorist-loving leader. Upon conviction, an offender can be sentenced to prison for up to three years.
My guess is that all three of the nut-burgers mentioned above have something in common with Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin, Russian revolutionary and communist politician, who said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."
How else can you explain Reid's and Pelosi's statement that, "We support our troops." while doing everything they can to undermine them and give aid and comfort to the very people who are trying kill those troops they "support." Please Mr Reid and Ms Pelosi, don't ever "support" me — my life insurance company might declare me a high value target and raise my life insurance premiums to a prohibitively high level.