Melanie Morgan

That was the sound of thousands of liberal journalists shrieking in agony as Democrats on Capitol Hill failed to force surrender terms upon our troops serving in Iraq.

The media were the biggest losers in Wednesday's vote on Iraq. The rest of the country was treated to their true feelings. You saw it on TV, read it in the newspapers, heard it on liberal radio. They were quite simply devastated that their allies in Congress couldn't make their call for "retreat" a reality.

Things are about to get even worse for the defeat-retreat-surrender ranks in the press corps. A plan is afoot that will mobilize a major backlash of American patriots who have had enough of the media's defeatism; the battle will reach a crescendo this September, when Gen. David Petraeus issues his report on the progress of "the surge" in Iraq.

For the past two years, liberal journalists opposed to Operation Iraqi Freedom and the war against terrorism have done everything they could to beat down the resolve of the American people in an attempt to convince the public that defeat in Iraq was our only hope.

The relentlessly negative and biased reporting has certainly taken its toll. I get e-mail from a number of readers who believe in the mission, but admit that they fear our nation has lost the resolve to win.

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Creating a depressed and defeatist attitude among the ranks of pro-troop supporters is exactly what these liberal journalists were aiming to do.

I should know – I've seen these tactics used over and over again by my liberal colleagues in the journalism field during my career in the news industry.

The tactics of journalists haven't changed one iota since they engaged in similar behavior during the Cold War (Reagan was a stupid cowboy who was going to get us all killed, we should just let the Communists do as they please) and the Vietnam War (why should our troops die for someone else's war, we can't win, it's not like the Communists will ever be a direct threat to American security anyway).

Rep. John Boehner, the House Republican leader sums up my thoughts perfectly:

We are fighting in the right place, at the right time and for the right reasons. Al-Qaida made Iraq the central front in the global war on terror, which is why we must confront them there – not just for the safety and security of the Iraqis but for the American people, too.

The same people are wringing their hands and saying we've lost the war, or are fighting the wrong enemy, or other such lamebrain arguments, are the same people who would have us leave the battleground in defeat. That would leave our enemy – the Islamic jihadists – a new base, the nation of Iraq, from which to organize a sustained campaign of terror against the United States and our allies.

I wish every Democrat and Republican senator who wants to surrender to our Islamic enemies would spend a few days in the trenches with our soldiers, as I have done. That might change a few votes, but I digress.

Not long after the treacherous traitors at MoveOn.org ran television ads calling the mission in Iraq a "quagmire," the national newsweeklies such as Time and Newsweek rushed to follow suit, splashing the word "quagmire" on the front pages of their publications.

And so it is now that we have the media happily defending Sen. Harry Reid and his announcement to the nation that "this war is lost."

This week, however, it was Sen. Reid and his allies in the liberal media who were the big losers.

Helping save the day was 1st Lt. Peter Hegseth, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom who leads the organization Vets for Freedom. Lt. Hegseth brought a contingent of Iraq war veterans to Capitol Hill to deliver the message to Congress that despite the media's negativity, the troops remain committed to victory.

These heroic individuals sweated in the blistering sandbox in Iraq, risking their lives and seeing some of their friends lose their lives or limbs, and now they stand here wondering if the American public will lose the nerve to fight this war with victory as the goal.

Sept. 3-15 the pro-troop organization I lead, Move America Forward, will mobilize tens of thousands of patriotic, pro-troop Americans in a giant caravan across the nation to Washington, D.C., in the "Fight for Victory Tour."

It's by far the largest such effort undertaken in Move America Forward's three-year history, and we need the help and support from every person reading these words.

Six years after Islamic terrorists murdered over 3,000 American citizens, the leaders in Congress will have to decide whether to find the resolve to win this war, or whether we will give up, give in and surrender.

I won't stand for American surrender to the jihadists.

After this week's defeat of the those who called for surrender to the terrorists in Iraq, the scoreboard reads thus: Media: 0, America: 1

But the battle on the home front has not yet been won, and this September we must stand together united, by the thousands, and support our troops and their mission in Iraq.

By joining together, our voice can become so long and strong that even the terrorists overseas will hear it and know our nation's resolve.

You can find out more on how you can join the "Fight for Victory Tour" at www.MoveAmericaForward.org.