Senate Seeks To Put Imprint On Iraq Policy
CSM: Despite a growing number of Republicans openly opposing the White House on the Iraq war, the Senate is not yet at the critical mass of votes needed to force a change in strategy.
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Here comes the next fight with those treasonous bastards–immigration is one thing and here comes the next.
July 11th, 2007 at 5:00 amTheir approval rating is so low I’m amazed that these people would come out into the light of day to pick a fight that slaps our soldiers in the face. They cannot really believe that the people of the USA want to retreat from this war. They have wrapped themselves in defeat and it’s not going to change. We need to pressure every vote in the Congress to wake up and vote the will of the people.
the people also wanted us to leave iraq during the gulf war and not go and get saddam so GB senior decided to break his promise with the shias and kurds and we all no what happened after that!
real leaders do what the public needs not just what it wants!
July 11th, 2007 at 6:04 amThey don’t have the numbers.
If Bush were to spend some time - like he did the other day - in a townhall or fireside chat format, the American people would have a better understanding of the GWOT and the high stakes for failure in Iraq.
Most of us here are familiar with our enemies tactics, history, culture, and philosophy. If the rest of the American people were as familiar with it, then these idiots in Congress might just get run out of town on a freaking rail.
July 11th, 2007 at 7:40 amHistory will judge these politicians for what they are.
July 11th, 2007 at 8:06 amUsing troops for their political gain is appalling. The defectors from the republican party will pay for their treachery. In time they will all be voted out because the war in iraq will be found to be a just war. The MSM in this country has propagandized the population with their “news” on the war to further their political bosses gains. I keep seeing “this is just like vietnam” crap on the news. Well the only thing I saw that resembled vietnam is the democraps and the medias conduct.
Notice all politicians who claim we should pull out of Iraq fails to mention the repercussions of that action or lie claiming the enemy will not follow us here. I guess spinless politicans stick their heads in the sand as well.
Since the inception of this war I haven’t heard a single democrat suggest we end this war through victory.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:00 amThe American people want to win this war. I want an answer to my question: why did this admin keep in place a losing strategy for so long in Iraq? Is it because they thought (and Congress) thought actually taking the fight to the enemy would increase casualties and the Congress cowards were afraid of their reelection in Nov 06, so Bush waited for political reasons until after the election to announce a change in strategy? He should have told Congress to shove it and elections be damned and done what was right. Also, does everyone notice that once Rumsfeld was fired, the war started going better? Is that a coincidence? Just asking.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:23 amWhy won’t anyone forcefully expel these morons from office and actually get someone in there who is a fucking leader?!
July 11th, 2007 at 9:53 amI got the solution. Instead of withdrawing from Iraq, maybe we should withdraw from Congress? What are their bench marks for success? Who’s holding them accountable?
And just who in the fuck authorized their raises anyways?
Nice cunundrum huh? Congress gets to do anything that they want at the expense of the security of our country.
And the American people are doing exactly what about it?
Congress has taken a giant piss on the American people and the MSM likes it so much, they want more.
Lets hope in ‘08, that the American people leave their soap operas, and American Idol shows long enough to take a giant shit on the Congress.
July 11th, 2007 at 1:31 pmPat, John Boehner has been tough in the past few years. He just called the Republican wafflers on Iraq “wimps”. His picture is next to Reid and I am not sure why his picture is up with this caption. Expose the bad guys, relieve the good guys…
JB
July 11th, 2007 at 3:10 pmA recent poll was taken, and people were asked what they though of Harry Reid.
The results?
5%-very good job
10%-good job
20%- unfavorably
15%- undecided
50%- thought a Harry Reid was a form of tall crabgrass.
Seriously, though, I am upset with the Bush team. They have not been getting their message out. They need to do massive town halls, radio and television interviews and blanket advertising like mad! President MUST build the enthusiasm for the troops and the war. If the Commander-In-Chief is not willing to make an effort to get on a soapbox and praise the troops, who should? I can do my part, but it has to start from the very top.
I am also extremely disappointed in the Republican party. Their seal should be changed from the elephant to the chicken. They are all timid and shy to look into the television screen and stand up for anything, including this war. I want to heart them tell Nancy Reid and Harry Pelosi to shove it! I want them to tell Cindy Sheehan that they are willing to help her move down south and move in with Hugo Chavez. I want them to tell Code Pink and Moveon that they are leftist communist/socialist pinko organizations and to get a life and then go to hell. I want to see Michael Moore get sick while in Canada, so that their medical system can kill him with their massive inefficiency and bloated bureaucracy. I want to see Al Sharpton get mugged by Jennie Craig. I want to see Barak Obama get his mouth taped shut, then watch his butt blow clean out due to the pressure backup. I want to see Hillary Clinton-no, wait, I would prefer not to see her at all!!! I want to see Jimmy Carter fade away into dust (hell, he’s so old, I hear he craps dust!). I want to see Howard Dean committed to a mental institution and given around the clock shock treatments. I want to see someone light a candle around Ted Kennedy and watch him explode like an molotov cocktail (fitting bomb, huh?). I want to see Barney Frank forced to date Janet Reno. I want to see Al Franken stripped naked and slimed in Spam, then lowered by rope into a well filled with rabid starving chihuahuas. I want to see if Jack Murtha can positively identify the color of his feet by trying to see over his lard belly…
I could go on, but that’s enough for now. Golly, that was cathartic…
July 11th, 2007 at 10:57 pmLamplighter, the policy at the beginning of the war was to employ ‘a light footprint’ policy. They were concerned with looking like an occupying force. I do believe that they gave the benefit of the doubt to the Iraqis and believed they’d step up to the plate. Didn’t happen, they’d rather chop each other’s heads off. Rumsfeld was replaced to make a clean cut from his policy. He tried, it didn’t work. Should have done it the General Powell way. Lock the country down. Shoulda’, woulda, coulda’.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:35 pmjohn cunningham:
July 12th, 2007 at 1:43 amyou are correct about the “light footprint” stuff. Rumsfeldt was a doplimat not a military commander. He had absloutly no idea what was needed. He thought a small descrete command would take out the iraqi military. He was correct. What he was unable to see was that there were another 50 million iraqis who felt great shame about being defeated so easily and were determined to do somthing about it. Just think the french and czeck resistance in WW2.
The along came P. Bremmer who sacked the entire iraqi army. Good fuckin move paul. Now you have another 1 million people to hate you as they have no income.
So up dance a militia and offer 1000 dollars top kill an american.Recruits are flooding in.
Shit if this was australia, id join up too.
The stupid and thoughtless mistakes made in iraq are almost beyond comprehension, except for a foreign department wallahs.These people are so totlally divorced from reason that one wonders who pays their salarys, the US state dept or the enemies of the US?MaybeBOTH.
Dont worry im not critisizing the US state department, just look at the UK Foreign Office, or even the Australian foreign office. A bunch of appeasers you would not credit. Bow down to the enemy all all costs.
(This will get my passport cancelled)
Now Michael Davis:Not being there the innuendo is lost on me, however i recognise the hilderbeest and the sheehan beast and the obama exploding blowup doll from the internet stuff, but the ol’Teddy Kennedy, the one who attemped to drag the sheila from the car after stuffing her life, well what can one say. The oceans of scotch will eventually block out the fact that he didnt even try to rescue this little dolly bird that he thought he was gonna fuck, cos he was too drunk at the time and whats changed.Every time hes sober he tried to fuck the US with some kind of legislation that will allow all sorts of undesirable into the US as if they hace a right and duty to do it. Bullet in the ear,needed.
Just a thought from an aussie
terry smyth, you’re preaching to the choir. I’m still cleaning the egg off my face.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:12 amterry smyth: being down under must give you a great perspective, because your analysis is dead on. What’s a “wallah”?
July 12th, 2007 at 3:07 pmLamplighter: a wallah is the sneering name given to the british commanding officers and those in the foreign office by aussie soldiers in ww1. It means that the person is less than useless.Plenty of these still about as we all know.Also short for wallaby, a small australian marsupial that is also useless.
July 12th, 2007 at 3:36 pm