
Here's an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com, Schumer's "treasonous" (yes I said treasonous) comment is taken from the senate floor.
BY JAMES TARANTO
Thursday, September 6, 2007 11:13 a.m. EDT
A Dagger for the Troops
Don Surber of the Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail notes an appalling statement by New York's senior senator, Chuck Schumer, on the Senate floor yesterday:
"Let me be clear. The violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al Qaeda said to these tribes we have to fight al Qaeda ourselves. It wasn't that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here."
It is certainly true that the sheikhs have been instrumental in the Anbar success, but they didn't do it on their own. As The Wall Street Journal reported last month (link for subscribers, but we excerpted it last month), "The success in Anbar Province, which lies west of Baghdad, hasn't come easily. The key to the U.S. campaign has been recruiting, cultivating, and rewarding tribal leaders."
As Surber notes, Schumer was one of 77 senators who voted to send the troops to Iraq. Now, in his quest for partisan advantage, he is falsely portraying them as unable to do anything right. It doesn't make us proud to be a New Yorker.