'Mission Accomplished'...And then they went on Vacation

What says more about the US Congress, their shameless climbing over each other to be the first to declare defeat in Iraq, or the fact that right after they voted down the President's Surge Plan they promptly went off for a week's vacation?

Completely missed by all of the defeatist Congressmen is that it was the terrorists in Iraq who escalated the violence/fighting there and the President's surge plan is a response to the escalation, not an escalation itself.

This vote tells the terrorists that the US does not want to win in Iraq as badly as they do and as far as supporting the troops they are all for that, provided that they don't want or need additional support.

Also absent from the House was any condemnation of Iran's activities in Iraq, other than to warn the President not to do anything to stop Iran from killing more troops.

Maybe it's a good that that Congress is going on Vacation. This way they can't do as much damage. If the war was such a serious matter, you would think that the last thing they would do is take a full week off. But look at who we are talking about. Well good for them. Too bad these creeps now have to hope that things don't get better in Iraq because of they do this vote will be hung around their necks like a noose, especially the Republicans who should have known better.

This is the kind of congress that would have lost World War II. Thank God this will not stop our current activity in Iraq. If anything, our troops will work harder and be more ruthless in order to fight the terrorists who will now by trying to send as many dead bodies back to Congress as possible, because that's the only way that they can win this war.