Times Square Bombing Shoud Give Democrats Pause

In the wake of the eggregious bombing of the military recruitment center in Times Square in New York this week, Democrats should pause and consider their complicity.

The Democrat leadership and their allies in the media and blogosphere, in their blind hatred of all things George W. Bush and their quest to regain the power of the presidency, have been effectively trashing the military for going on at least three years now.

Pelosi, Reid, and company have been beating the drums of anti-war, and in doing so have repeatedly made the case that:

- our military are killers and occupiers. (Constantly trumpeting the worst case stories of Haditha, and inflating the number of war casualties)

- our military are torturers. (Abu Gahraib, Gitmo, waterboarding)

- our Commander-in-Chief is a rogue criminal who makes war unjustly

- the military recruiters are predators, preying on inner city youth who have no other financial options

In peddling these stories every day, they inspire people to hatred of the United States. Just read some of the leftwing forums. I do. They are chock full of vitriol and hate. Not just for President Bush (who they unaffectionately call "chimpy") and his administration, but for the military. They emphatically do not support the troops.

If you want a concrete example of the Left's complicity in anti-military activity, just look at the actions of the Berkley California city council last month. The council is one of the best examples of the left having control of the levers of power and using it to agitate against the military in the form of recruitment centers. The council voted to kick the U.S. military recruitment center out of town, sending a letter saying they were "uninvited and unwelcome". They also stripped them of parking spaces outside the center and designated them for use by anti-war loonies Code Pink - who they encouraged to do all they could to disrupt the activities of the military recruiters.

I have two things to say about that:

1. Democrat politicians are complicit in encouraging antipathy toward military recruiters, and are complicit in the bombing of the recruitment center in Times Square.

2. In my opinion, Berekely California should be stripped of all federal dollars, and left undefended by the military in the event of an attack. Screw them. Let Code Pink defend them.