Posted on 03/27/2003 6:50:06 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:00:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Many FReepers read the yesterday's thread posting a letter in which NY Congressman Maurice Hinchey accused the US of committting a "massacre" in Iraq.
Two papers in Hinchey's district ran articles on Hinchey's letter, in which many residents criticized him, notably including a veteran who told Hinchey to "shut his damn mouth."
(Excerpt) Read more at theithacajournal.com ...
Let's see:
Pres. Bush asked Congress for its permission. This was debated, and then Congress voted to support the President, and allow him to pursue this "policy."
Contrast that with Bill Clinton, who asked NO ONE before he launched attacks in Yugoslavia. Clinton asked no one before he launched cruise missile attacks on Iraq, and on an aspirin factory--er, "Chemical weapons plant"--in Somalia.
Seems like the "Bush Doctrine" is constitutional. It is the CLINTON doctrine that was an obscenity.
The idiot can't even read. We had 10 votes (which, I admit is close) BUT the frog government stated that they would veto any resolution presented so it became a moot point.
If American troops are perpetrating a 'massacre', as he claims, how can he then praise them?
"We should be very proud of the men and women of our military who are serving our country overseas. These brave Americans constitute the finest fighting force in the world and we owe them our deepest gratitude and support. My thoughts are with them and their families. To the families of the soldiers who have died in the line of duty, I offer my sincere condolences. Words cannot adequately express our country's appreciation for your sacrifice. In wartime we Americans pull together. We support our troops and we all try to do our part to ensure the war's rapid and successful conclusion."
Of course he's a hypocrite; after all, he's a Democrat.
So, basically, Hinchey has had an opportunity to actually impeach a president who was in the very act of applying what Hinchey calls "The Bush Doctrine" in Iraq in 1998.
He voted against impeachment. Hypocrisy, thy name is Hinchey:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 12, 1999
Hinchey Responds to Senate Vote on Articles of Impeachment
"By voting to acquit President Clinton today, the Senate responded to the will of the American people. The majority of Americans believe, as I do, that the President's behavior was offensive but did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
Today's vote finally brings to a close this sad chapter in the history of our nation and the history of the U.S. Congress. More importantly, we hope that the President's acquittal will end the vindictive, partisan investigation that has distracted us from the issues that really matter to the American people: protecting Social Security and Medicare, improving access to health care and strengthening our public schools."
Ya gotta just love the Internet:
"Hinchey broke D.C. gun law," Poughkeepsie Journal, 3 December 1994.
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) was caught illegally carrying a handgun in Northern Virginia in 1994. (11) Fortunately for him, he was not caught near his home in the District where the handgun is illegal and would have netted Mr. Hinchey a much more serious penalty.
CONGRESSMAN CAUGHT IN THE ACT, PART II
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) pleaded no contest Jan. 5 to a charge of carrying a loaded handgun in his baggage at Washington National Airport and was given a "suspended imposition of sentence."
Hinchey's lawyer, David Lenefsky, said, "We did not plead guilty to anything because we had no intent to violate any statute."
Lenefsky said that by his plea Hinchey acknowledged the handgun was his and that he had a license to carry it in New York, but not in Virginia.
"The handgun was inadvertently in a piece of luggage I took from my upstate New York home when I drove back to Washington for the late-November congressional session, and it was still in that piece of unopened luggage on Dec. 1 when I decided to fly back to New York," Hinchey said in a statement.
Hinchey, who voted for the anti-gun Brady Bill, appeared before Judge Joseph Gwaltney in a county district court. The judge's slap-on-the-wrist ruling means sentencing was suspended and will be lifted automatically in a year. You know what would have happened if it had been you instead of a Congressman_you'd get out of prison some time in the Twenty-Third Century.
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"The money from the bank was inadvertently in the bag in the back seat of my car," said the man accused of bank robbery.
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