Is Congress contributing to the enemy's courage?

Absolutely.

Remember when the terrorists started the videotaped beheading campaign? Once they realized that was just enraging the American public, they switched tactics.

The more they hear our politicians crying for withdrawal, the more they are emboldened to blow up more civilians to speed the process. Our military is making progress, the Iraqi military is increasing its capacity. We need to show resolve against these radicals, not broadcast to them that we've had enough of their suicide bombers and IEDs and are on the verge of quiting.

Do you really think that is their objective? Al Qaeda is being made out to be the people that are going to take control of Iraq once we leave and they are not. They are a terrorist network that does not have a specific area in which they wish to control. There whole agenda is to kill all infidels correct? Why do americans buy into the nonsense that we are in Iraq to fight Al Qaeda when we are not. No matter what happens, it is a civil war between three factions.... Shia's, Sunnis, and Kurds. They all want the power of control in Iraq. These people are no Al Qaeda. I tend to believe Al Qaeda is a made up group that leads us to believe there is something more than there is. Again, if they want to strike here in the US, they will. Our goal as a country is not to have Iraq be a great place to live. I don't plan on visiting anytime soon, do you? I could care less about Iraq. We are there for Oil no matter which way you spin it.

Is the fact that Haliburton is doing business currently with Iran contributing to the support of terrorists? They provide economic growth to that country that clearly DOES have an agenda, however you never hear about this. If we concentrate on the real problems at hand over there, this pull out garbage that everyone says is so bad does not effect the US. It does however effect the view the world has of the US, as it already has in bad. Should we have consider this before envolving ourselves in the stupid war in the first place? Don't blame congress for trying to fix a ship so it can float when the previous congress and our president sent a ship that didn't have a hull in the first place.

Yes, even a few months ago the people of Iraq were giving our soldiers intelligence. Now, because of liberals wanting to withdraw, that source of info has dried up. No native wants to be known to be supporting the losing team.

The hit and miss strategy can work because we would have to kill every single supporter of the resistance to win.

It is the media who "stays on top" of what they perceive to be important "exclusive" issues regarding this war. Congress has 'emboldened" no one. You forget, most of what we hear, we hear through the media. And yes, Congressmen/women go before the cameras and speak their little pieces. But the real culprit is the media.

I don't believe that "al quaeda' is as powerful a group as we are told anyway. I believe most of the original leaders are dead or otherwise removed, and that what we deal with now are referred to as al quaeda, but in reality are many 'offshoots' who have gained importance only because we refer to nearly all terror groups in the Middle East as "al quaeda".

I don't really accept that "al quaeda" as defined by our government is responsible for the missing 3 US troops. An "offshoot" perhaps, but there are too many "unamed, unidentified" groups working against us in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East.

When America invaded Iraq that war was lost and it's the lost war that gives the enemy courage.The people in Congress who you are talking about are trying to stop more Americans from being killed.

If anyone emboldened al quaida it's the Bush administration by taking the focus of Afghanistan where the Taliban had a chance to regroup and is back now

Duh, al qaeda doesn't want us to leave Iraq. The USA is providing a constant resupply of fresh bodies to go up against their 'real time' live fire training exercises - training for the day when the fight is brought to us here on US soil after all our troops and supplies have been depleted and all we have left in the US to defend us is people like those at Virginia Tech.

I would say no.

Al Qaida does not get CSPAN nor do they get CSPAN2.

But if you think about it, troop surges and 6 years have done nothing to curb the enemy's courage, so I don't think anything the congress does emboldens them.

But I will tell you that when the president completely disregards the Congress' equal status of government and acts beyond and above them, it demoralizes our country.

Whether the president is Republican or Democrat, it hurts the nation when he disregards the authority of Congress.

Thanks you.

Absolutely. The are sitting back waiting for our election in 2008. They know the Democrats will have a open policy to let them come back in again and we will then give them money to be friends which they will turn around and use that money to attack us again.

Al qaeda is emboldened by the U.S. quagmire in Iraq and the fact that Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism. Our incompetence emboldens them. Not to mention the fact that the war has weakened our ability to fight a true war on terror. That is huge factor in emboldening them.

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Proable not likely because have you notice since Congress try to pass the first dead line the number of attacks are going up, because they think they are winning.