Another Damn Defeatist

Yet another prominent government official has said that the United States is not winning in Iraq, and warned that the Middle East is in danger of exploding into violence. This statement runs counter to Bush's Oct. 25 declaration that "absolutely, we're winning" in Iraq.

You know, I'm getting sick and tired of these damn defeatists who have nothing better to do than focus on the bad things that are happening in Iraq, and try to make our President look like a liar. Don't they realize that disagreeing with our Commander in Chief is unpatriotic? That such negative attitudes only provide aid and comfort to America's enemies?

And who was this government official, you ask? Some disgruntled bureaucrat in the State Department? Soon to be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi? John Kerry? Some other damn democrat?

Actually, no. None of those. It was Robert Gates, recently nominated by President Bush to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense.