Democrat’s provide Islamic propaganda

Hugh Hewitt’s column argues that the Democrat’s are providing the terrorists with the propaganda they thrive on:

It has become apparent over the past few months that a high number of United States senators either do not understand how their words can be used against American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, or do not care that those words might be so used.

On the assumption that elected officials are not indifferent to the lives of the young men and women serving in uniform, let's try to think like an Islamist extremist, trying hard to encourage one or more of his younger charges to either participate in an attack against a heavily armored American position or to even become a suicide bomber.

Hewitt then provides an example from Senator Carl levin:

This is not just a few guards in some kind of aberrant conduct. This is a much more systemic problem here. And military intelligence, including I have to believe the CIA have got to be held accountable, right up the chain.

Note that today’s Argus Leader editorial says basically the same thing:

A week from today, the first U.S. soldier goes on trial in the prisoner-abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.

Spc. Jeremy C. Sivits, a member of the 372nd Military Police Company, faces a special court-martial on several charges.

In all, a half-dozen enlisted personnel - privates, corporals, sergeants - face courts-martial, while seven officers have received what are considered career-ending reprimands.

It shouldn't stop there. We can't allow high-ranking personnel to dodge their responsibility. Their accountability is necessary both to peace and rebuilding confidence in our mission.

We must have accountability, no matter how high that goes.

Does the front page of today’s Argus Leader cover the beheaded American? No, instead this headline:

Investigator says soldiers, commanders share blame

Here is the second paragraph:

Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba said he found no evidence of specific orders directing soldiers to commit such acts, but he disagreed with a senior Pentagon civilian official who was in charge of U.S. military police at the prison.

Taguba is the author of a Pentagon report that disclosed the abuses at Abu Ghraib. As the Argus Leader uses a misleading headline on its front page, they write an editorial that supports the headline. With that in mind, here is Hewitt’s ending from his column:

Carl Levin has not a shred of evidence that the prisoner abuse is evidence of systemic prisoner abuse. The accusation is slander of the worst sort, as shameful as Minnesota Democratic Sen. Mark Dayton's public descent into incoherence on Friday when he slandered Gen. Myers with the charge of "suppression" of the abuse story, and then rambled off into a bizarre rant about sending more tanks to Iraq, which would only engender more violence.

The Democratic Party has lost its way, saying the most outrageous things in hopes of scoring points, and doing so in a way that makes the charges ready-made propaganda for our enemies – propaganda of the deadliest sort. If they have a shred of decency left, they will stop before they do more harm. Levin and Dayton cannot recall their harmful statements which will shame their careers forever, but at least they can stop adding more tape to the arsenal of poison already in the hands of our terrorist enemies.

Looks like the Argus Leader is helping the Democrats spread the propaganda that the terrorists thrive on. More disturbing than that…where is the outrage toward the terrorist who beheaded an American who was in Iraq to help rebuild it? You will find a factual presentation of the account on page 4A of today’s Argus Leader. Note…page 4A!