Supporting the troops and hoping they lose

Dennis Prager has an excellent piece today which exposes the dishonesty of the left when they claim to support the troops. Which begs the question: How can they support our troops when they want them to lose? If that question sounds vindictive, mean spirited and unfair, all you have to do is listen to them day in and day out as they attempt to undermine President Bush and insist that we either pull out of Iraq or send in more troops (ostensibly because they're not doing an adequate job fighting the war):

In order to understand this, we need to first have a working definition of the term "support the troops." Presumably it means that one supports what the troops are doing and rooting for them to succeed. What else could "support the troops" mean? If you say, for example, that you support the Yankees or the Dodgers, we assume it means you want them to win.

But most of the Left does not want the troops to win in Iraq. The Left's message is this: "You troops may think you are winning; you may think you are doing good and moral things in Iraq; you may believe you are fighting the worst human beings of our age and protecting us against the scourge of Islamic terror. But we on the Left believe none of that. We believe this war is being fought for oil and for Halliburton and other corporations; we believe you are waging a war that is both illegal and immoral; we believe you have invaded a country for no good reason and have killed a hundred thousand Iraqis [the Left's generally mentioned number] for no good reason; but, hey, we sure do support you."

The left has a real problem conveying what they really believe. If and when they honestly state what they really stand for, they rightly fear losing the support of mainstream democrats.

A couple of days ago, Sen. Obama admitted that the dems were trying to determine what their core values were:

"I see a Democratic Party afraid to say they're Democrats, who voted for the war in Iraq and voted for tax cuts for the wealthy," said Glenn Anderson of Orlando. "Why should I remain a Democrat?"

It was a tough question. But Nelson and Obama tried to answer it.

"The Democrats at times have lost their way," conceded Obama. "We are trying to decide what our core values are."

The criterion for judging the party isn't whether it's to the left or right, "but are we true to our core values," he said. Nobody defined core values.

They know what their core values are, but they cannot overtly announce them because it would expose their true socialist beliefs. America isn't altogether ready for socialism so the left has to cloak their agenda ever so deceptively.

Occasionally you'll find a democrat who honestly speaks his or her mind, as USA Today columnist Julianne Malveaux did yesterday on Sean Hannity's radio show. She said that President Bush "is a terrorist" and that America "is a terrorist nation." Check out the story at Newsmax. Middle America doesn't abide that kind of talk but she was only spouting what the left really thinks, which is why the higher profile left is much more subtle.