Congress is continuing to use the anti-war platform as their springboard to the White House in 2008. Although their first war defunding bill was vetoed by President Bush, Congress is still trying to use the budget to force the President to change tactics in Iraq. In response, a petition is being circulated on blogs and pro-military sites across the internet to send a different message to the anti-war members of Congress. This petition is meant to show Congress that there are Americans who want victory in Iraq. There are Americans who see an immediate withdrawal for what it is, a surrender.

Here is one example of the petition being sent through cyber-space. Feel free to email it to Speaker Pelosi and anti-war front man Senator Reid.

To: Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House
Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Democrat Leader

Congress has passed and President Bush has vetoed H.R. 1591, the Iraq Surrender Act of 2007.

This legislation, which you worked to pass, sets a timetable for surrender. It pulls the rug out from under our troops. That is shameful and wrong.

Your actions have already emboldened the enemy. Violent jihadists now know that the elected leadership of Congress would undermine the troops by holding their funding hostage to demands for surrender.

This Congress would bring us back to the dark days of the 1970s, when the world doubted our staying power. Except only much worse. Withdraw in April 2008, and on May 1, Iraq becomes an unchecked den of terrorism at the heart of the Middle East — a new base for the same people that struck our homeland on September 11th.

I stand with our troops. I stand for victory. I support the President’s veto and will urge my representatives to vote to sustain it.

There can be one and only one outcome in Iraq: We win, they lose.

The actions of Congress have indeed given the enemy the greatest of all weapons. Hope. The men and women of Congress who have postured and publicly protested the war have shown the enemy that they only need to outlast our attention span and they will have free reign in Iraq. This blackmail legislation has done no less than show Al-Qaeda that there are parts of the American government that are willing to sacrifice the people of Iraq for political gain. Congress can bicker all they want, but they must be united behind our war effort if we are to have any chance at victory in Iraq and at keeping the terrorists from our shores.