House Democrats Passed A Bill To Stifle Good News We’re Winning Iraq
Rep Paul Hodes also views the USMC Slogan - The Few, The Proud, The Marines as a “concerted effort to propagandize” in violation of the law.
I don’t care how much you spin it, how much perfume you put on this pig, Not ONE democrat in our congress today supports the troops…
Where did these communist bastards come from? Who the fuck voted for these people?
Safe From Truth
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Anti-Militarism: House Democrats have passed a bill to stifle the good news that we’re winning in Iraq. They are so invested in losing that they apparently fear a popular backlash against them from victory.
Congress seems to be acting out the role of Col. Nathan R. Jessep, played by Jack Nicholson in the film “A Few Good Men.” When pinned in covering up a murder, Nicholson famously yells back at Tom Cruise, playing the interrogating attorney: “You can’t handle the truth!”
Democrats have decided this election year that American voters can’t handle the fact that victory in Iraq is at hand.
In its passage last week of the defense policy bill, the House issued a prohibition against the Pentagon’s “concerted effort to propagandize” the American public regarding the Iraq War.
It came in the form of an amendment authored by Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., which also would authorize an investigation of the Defense Department’s “propaganda” efforts by the Government Accountability Office.
Hodes’ addition to the bill passed by voice vote and the overall bill passed the House by a large margin. The Senate will wait until after the holiday recess to consider it.
It’s not as if the Pentagon brass, as they wage a global war on terrorism, don’t have better things to do than sit down and answer foolish questions about public relations operations from a bunch of GAO bean-counters.
Besides, haven’t congressional Democrats insisted all these years that it wasn’t the military they had a problem with regarding the Iraq War? Haven’t they been saying how much they support those in uniform, that our military leaders really agreed with Democrats that Iraq was unwinnable, and that it was only the civilians who run war policy in the Bush administration they were attacking?
According to Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., the Hodes provision could end up classifying even the U.S. Marines’ slogan, “The Few, the Proud, the Marines,” as a “concerted effort to propagandize” in violation of the law.
The Democrats’ efforts to save America from good news in Iraq stem from a New York Times article last month charging that retired military officers appearing on TV were “puppets of the Defense Department” because they get frequent private briefings and talking points.
The paper called it “a symbiotic relationship where the usual dividing lines between government and journalism have been obliterated.”
How divided were the lines between government and journalism when the New York Times in 2005 refused the pleas of the White House not to endanger investigations that were in progress and alert terrorist plotters by exposing the National Security Agency’s secret program to monitor the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of suspected terrorists?
Or when the Washington Post that same year imperiled national security by revealing the secret CIA interrogation program in which terrorist detainees were taken to foreign prisons where information that could prevent future attacks was extracted?
Democrats seem to be motivated largely by the notion that those who wear, or have worn, the uniform of the U.S. armed forces cannot be trusted. Witness Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, last week outrageously suggesting that presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain looks at everything “from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous.”
As will be obvious again on this Memorial Day, most Americans trust and appreciate our servicemen and women. Their wrath is sure to fall on those who pass laws that presume them to be liars.
Kudos to Brian H for the article
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It must be the Twilight zone, because each day the dems are in charge, it gets stranger. High price of oil and gas - solution sue Opec and tax the domestic oil companies, but don’t drill for more oil and build refineries. The USA and allies winning in Iraq, but it will be against the law to let the American people know. I have to repeat what kind of idiot votes for these people.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:22 pmDidnt they learn anything from the spanking they got over the “betray us” ad.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:39 pm_________________________________________
Apparently, nearly every one of my blood relatives
No, I’m not kidding.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:41 pmAm I in a nightmare or is this real? I can not believe this at all! Where in the hell do these people come from? This is nothing short of, I can’t even think of the word! HOW can you pass a bill that allows this? How is that even possible? What a bunch of stinkin’ unbelievable garbage these Demoncraps are. They’re just vile, ugly, dangerous people. I hope this is used against them in commercials for the elections. If the average American knew this they would go nuts…I hope.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:41 pmThis is extremely frustrating to read. With this Congress, there would be no way the US would ever have won… forget won… even competed in any war in history.
They would have called for negotiating with Hitler, I have no doubt.
I don’t get it. Whatever the hell there goal is… I just don’t get it…
May 27th, 2008 at 7:42 pmIt has to go beyond simply ending the War in Iraq. Either that or they don’t understand the Law of Unintended Consequences. Can they really be so shortsighted? They’re playing Candyland when everyone else is playing Chess.
They represent everything that I have been taught to fight against all my life. These people need a whipping.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:51 pmWhere is the outrage from the Republican Congress?
May 27th, 2008 at 8:25 pmOn second thought, this type of Bill passed by the Democratic majority Congress, (if exposed to the American People) will prove the TREASONOUS acts these fools commit!
May God open the eyes of the people of the USA and World.
May 27th, 2008 at 8:35 pmdemocrats being democrats. Time to trot this out to remind everyone how long they’ve been the enemy within.
http://hnn.us/articles/31400.html
May 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pmThe problem is not that the Dems are closet, anti-American’s the problem is we have NO leadership to call them what they are even when they let the mask slip.
Remember the retardation that “how dare we question their patriotism”.
The Espionage & Sedition Acts should have been presidential order reinstated back mid 2004. If we had it wouldn’t have taken 5+ years to break the enemies will. The Jihadi’s in Iraq have been running on the hope that the US would pull a Somalia or Vietnam, ginned up primarily by our loyal Democratic Party of today.
May 27th, 2008 at 8:58 pmLook where this lowlife is from. People’s Republic of New Hampshire. This type of activity is what passes for thoughtfulness.
May 27th, 2008 at 9:04 pmJohn Cunningham
The Dems have been anti-american even prior to Vietnam.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/thomas-nast-on-the-peace-democrats
Then of course in WW1 the communist scratch socialist scratch Labor Unions and their allies attempting to hamper the US war effort was what created Espionage & Sedition Acts.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1916espionageact.html
“SEC. 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall wilfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall wilfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, or say or do anything except by way of bona fide and not disloyal advice to an investor . . . with intent to obstruct the sale by the United States of bonds . . . or the making of loans by or to the United States, or whoever, when the United States is at war, shall wilfully cause . . . or incite . . . insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall wilfully obstruct . . . the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall wilfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag . . . or the uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States, or any language intended to bring the form of government . . . or the Constitution . . . or the military or naval forces . . . or the flag . . . of the United States into contempt, scorn, contumely, or disrepute . . . or shall wilfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall wilfully . . . urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production in this country of any thing or things . . . necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war . . . and whoever shall wilfully advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any coun try with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both…. ”
I was just going to pull some quotes but I think every sentence short the War Bonds sentence applies directly to either Democratic party or their allies i.e. Code Pink, IVAW, etc…
May 27th, 2008 at 9:20 pmAs my high school cross country coach once said: Garbage in, Garbage out.
May 27th, 2008 at 9:36 pmWow, when can congress pass laws that violate the first amendment of our constitution? I swore an oath to defend that document against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I guess it’s off to the range to re zero my weapons….
May 27th, 2008 at 9:59 pmThis all could cause a renewal of the conservative movement, unfortunately, I don’t think they have hit rock bottom yet….Oh my…
May 27th, 2008 at 10:25 pmLittle by little and bit by bit, these cowards get stronger. This is what the future holds. These guys own the media, the schools, the courts and popular culture. That cock sucker shouldn’t be allowed near an American flag.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:25 pmDang Marines. If word gets out on Iraq it’ll make NPR look bad.
May 27th, 2008 at 10:37 pmMine too, bro. I am ashamed of the lame-brained people that I see all the time who have lost the capacity to reason and think clearly. Most of them have been trained by the liberal indoctrination they received at American colleges to favor big government, one-world government, and to be hostile toward the military. The others just spend too much time watching Oprah or Married with children. I do not know how our country can long survive with such a population of mindless sheep.
May 28th, 2008 at 1:13 amTHEY ARE OUR EDUCATORS, IN OUR UNIVERSITIES, HIGH SCHOOLS!
May 28th, 2008 at 2:14 amIf Sharon stone is right about China and ‘Karma’, then maybe the Left will experience some ‘Karma’ of their own soon…
May 28th, 2008 at 3:28 amDhimis lie and people die. That’s the lesson of VN. Now the Jane Fondas have power in Congress. And woe is us. It’s time for a counter-jihad against them.
May 28th, 2008 at 3:48 amYour posts are all true. The most dangerous people in the world today are Democrats.
They have been raised and educated to defeat America from their first breath.
If they win the election………..no border fence and amnesty.
May 28th, 2008 at 4:06 amThey have decided that victory in Iraq is not going to happen.
Taxes up and lawsuits for opec driving the prices higher.
They have decided American workers don’t need high quality jobs in the energy field, more outsourcing.
Federal bailout for the housing market, illegals have their houses bought by American taxpayers.
Much, much more
This is where getting undecided voters can make up their minds by reading this crap they come up with. Also, find the unregistered voters and sign them up. When they say their votes wouldn’t make a difference as their voice is to small, run that quote, from I don’t know who, “If you think your single voice is to small, you’ve never been in bed with one mosquito.”
May 28th, 2008 at 4:35 amI have a hard time understanding how ANY American could vote for these assholes. Are they trying to destroy us or put us into another civil war?
May 28th, 2008 at 4:41 amI fear for the country I served for 30 years.
Jim Isom
May 28th, 2008 at 8:14 amColonel, USAF(Ret)
OK, the population is busy living their lives. The media, the entertainment industry, the schools, the colleges, even alot of the churches that preach “social justice” and pacifism are all controlled by liberals. They are programmed by these “institutions” on what to believe. It takes a conscious effort to “de-program” and get your own information. Most people don’t/won’t do it. Is it no wonder there is a large flock of sheep, ready to be led to slaughter? It’s a pendulum. It swing left (1965-1979, even Nixon wasn’t really conservative), it swings right (1980-2004). It’s swinging left again.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:52 amThese commie bastards came from all the commie bastards around us. The ones that demand the freedom to dismantle this country without opposition. The ones that demand the freedoms that would be erased by our enemies. The ones that chip away at the foundation without concern of the ceiling falling in. The ones that scream in the faces of our military yet hide behind them. The ones that criticize the achievers while acting as anchors to progress. The ones with “Bush lied, people died” bumper stickers. The ones with “Obama in 08″ lawn signs. The ones with Che t-shirts.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:38 amThe ones that believe in “workers of the world unite”. The ones that think China and Russia can be our friends. The ones that trade freedoms for supposed security.
Look around. They are everywhere.
We’ve identified the problem. Solutions???