No wonder many on the right call them Defeatocrats, they don't even appear to want us to win. The least you could do was applaud when Bush mentioned victory:
The Democrats aren't being very smart here because they need to realize that support of this war could change if we start to see a reduction of violence by 2008 and if I were a Republican, I would feature that portion of Bush's address in a commercial and say, "The Democrats couldn't even applaud a call for victory in Iraq, will they support any future war in this war on terror? How can we take that chance?"Bush urged lawmakers to "turn events toward victory." Cheney stood and applauded. Pelosi held to her chair, but, as the applaud spread, finally stood without clapping.
Bush called for the United States "to succeed in Iraq." Cheney again stood and clapped. Pelosi wiped her lips and remained seated, as did most Democrats, except for relative hawks such as Clinton and the newly minted independent, Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) When Bush spoke of Marines going to Anbar province to "find the terrorists," a few Republican leaders -- Sens. Ted Stevens (Alaska), John Cornyn (Tex.) and Jon Kyl (Ariz.), and Reps. John Boehner (Ohio) and Roy Blunt (Mo.) -- tried to start a standing ovation, but got little support from either side.
And when Bush spoke about deploying "more than 20,000 additional soldiers and Marines to Iraq," there was silence all around.
