Posted on 04/26/2006 10:49:58 AM PDT by milwguy
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said Gregg's cuts would "take money from troop pay, body armor and even joint improvised explosive device defeat fund. Now that is a false choice and it is a wrong choice."
One reason: No one has yet developed tactics for how these Jeep-sized devices, operated by remote control, might be used to patrol the thousands of miles of roadways traveled by U.S. military vehicles every day. In recent Senate testimony, Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey said formal field testing would not begin until these issues are ironed out.
Faced with such objections, Ionatron's supporters have begun spinning the Pentagon's apparent wariness into a tale of petty inter-service rivalries between the Army and the Marine Corps, suggesting that the lives of U.S. troops are being lost in the process.
To that end, two high-profile Senate Democrats have lately picked up the message, adding their own voices to those of House and Senate Republicans in calls for quick deployment of the Ionatron devices before even more lives are lost.
What role, if any, the lobbyists at Blank & Rome may have played in getting the Ionatron story on the radar screens of the two Senate Democrats isn't known, but a role of some sort may easily enough be surmised, considering who the two senators in fact are: New York's own Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barbara Boxer of California.
Both senators have longstanding ties to a Blank & Rome lobbyist named Heather Podesta, who has hooks of her own into the federal Democratic power loop.
PODESTA is the wife of a Democratic Party operative named An thony Podesta, who managed Sen. John Kerry's failed presidential run in 2004. And Anthony Podesta's brother, John Podesta, was White House chief of staff for ex-President Clinton....Is it any wonder why we are losing confidence in our gov't when our national security and that of our brave soldiers is sacrificed for the green and political aspirations of people like Hillary Clinton. h
The stench of the Clintons will just not go away.
I believe the money is being taken from unused Iraqi reconstruction funds, not any military budgets. The reconstruction funds have been sitting largely unused because the Iraqis have generated enough oil revenue to pay for their own rebuilding, particularly within the environment of high per barrel costs. So once again, Hillary is lying claiming this is coming out of military budgets for the US mission in Iraq.
That is correct!!
The reconstruction funds have been sitting largely unused because the Iraqis have generated enough oil revenue to pay for their own rebuilding, particularly within the environment of high per barrel costs.
Partially correct. A portion of the reconstruction funds have been sitting unused because of the terrorism/violence in certain areas of Iraq.
My point is that Hillary is intimately involved in promoting a system that does not work, and her reason for doing so is not because she gives a damn about our brave soldiers, but rather, she wants to reward her allies and further her political aspirations.
Can someone please post the facts, the TRUTH about this diversion.
Thank you.
"A portion of the reconstruction funds have been sitting unused because of the terrorism/violence in certain areas of Iraq."
While that is true, it is only a minor reason for there being unused funds. The lapdog media played up this angle not wanting to admit that Cheney wasn't "lying," as they paint it, when he said prior to the war that Iraqi oil money would pay for their own rebuilding. They don't want to have to admit he was right. But your point still stands.
Regardless, the Democrats will use this now to try to claim they're tougher on defense and more pro-soldier than the GOP and the media will repeat it unquestioningly without ever looking into the fact this money is coming from recounstruction budgets, not military budgets. Let's see if Frist can get his s--- together well enough to counter this insidious lie. I'm not holding my breath.
See my post #3.
But isn't it funny, the Dems. and their media lapdogs which forever have complained about the cost of the war in Iraq and all the things here at home that are supposedly going unpaid for here at home suddenly find such virtue in Iraq spending when they can use it to attack Republicans. LOL, more of the "Attack Bush/the GOP if they do one thing, attack them if they do the opposite" desperation tactics of the Dems. It was great when Kerry voted against Iraq spending, after voting for it of course. And it's a-okay for the Democrats to constantly complain about these costs.
But the fact is, this isn't coming out of military operational budgets in Iraq, but from reconstruction funds that have gone unused as the Iraqis cover their own reconstruction costs.
The media is carrying the lies for the dems.
Thanks for pointing that out. Leave it to FReepers to ferret out the facts!
Another diversion to get their amnesty through. What I want to know is where is everyone like Tancredo from the House on this coming scam, they've been quiet as a mouse lately. I wonder if they've been told to keep it that way for some reason...
You're right... we're blogging... that's how it happens!
*smacking forehead*
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