Andrea Mitchell interviews General Petraeus.

The General wastes no time in making his positions crystal clear..now only if the media would listen.

While the Democrats attempt to jockey for position to take credit for us “winning” in Iraq, (we all know it had to be that pressure they put on the President), their steady drumbeat of words fall on deaf ears with me.

This is the party whose leader told us the war was lost. Remember Mrs. Clinton’s “willing suspension of disbelief” of General Petraeus’s report to the Armed Services Committee?

How about the disgraceful actions and words of Congressman John Murtha?

We should not forget the continuous threats on the Left to cut funding for the war, knowing full well the American people would not tolerate our troops being left in further jeopardy.

As for the media, well they have done their level best to turn public opinion against the war and the President perhaps not realizing there are those of us who resent their constant negativity and lack of support and recognition for the successes achieved.

President Bush has remained steadfast in his claim that when Iraq was stable and their government was certain they could maintain the peace, we would leave. His recent conversations with Prime Minister Maliki are the beginning of that process, not some artificial time line the Democrats would prefer our troops and Iraq follow.

Wars are not won or lost by presidential nominees (especially those whose positions change like the wind) or those in Congress, many of whom have never set foot in today’s hostile environments.

No indeed, they are won by men and women like these:

Something a bit different this week, in keeping with our the war was won theme. This is a video produced by the Third Infantry Division (aka Task Force Marne and MND-C) the surge division in Iraq.

and, those who have stepped up to defend their own country as it struggles (as our nation did) to form a democracy:

Then there are times when the change hits you across the forehead like a 2×4. Yesterday I found inspiration in the tears of joy on hundreds of faces at the graduation for the Iraqi Military Academy at Rustimiyah as 252 young men graduated from the one year course of instruction and were commissioned as 2nd Lieutenants in the Iraqi Army and Air Force.

To Our House and Senate Leaders:

I hear you are planning ways to withdraw troops from Iraq by using amendments to funding bills later in the year.

Code Pink is forcing you to live up to your campaign promises, you see.

You think you can unring the bell of the war authorization. Sorry, but that train has left the station.

If what you want to do is what the majority of Americans want done, as you say, then do it the honorable way. Send up a bill that will stop all funding of the war and we will be forced to leave Iraq if there are no funds.

The American electorate will support you; or will they?

Quit playing around with amendments to spending bills setting a date certain for withdrawal. If you are so proud of what you want then show your pride and your support by putting forth a clean bill that shows it for what it is, instead of constantly going through the same gyrations we just went through in the past couple of months.

Does any politician think the voters have any sense at all, or do you all think we have the IQ of an amoeba?

What you are planning to do is the coward’s way out. You promised us transparency in our government. I’m ready for some transparency.

Pass a bill that calls for defunding the war and take any praise or scorn for that bill, but quit playing footsie and pretending it’s something else by trying to hide some strange-sounding amendment in an appropriations bill.

I, for one, will appreciate you more if you are honest with me and upfront instead of trying to slip something in on another bill.

Update: Take a look at what Captain Ed is writing. If what he reports is true, we won’t have to worry about Congress getting more involved in the war than they already are.