Posted on 11/15/2005 8:54:12 PM PST by Wrangler22
Today's stab in the President's back via the Warner amendment is an affront to all of us who worked so hard to increase the Republican Majority in the Senate. It rebukes the President for the conduct of the war, demanding information that has often been supplied and a transition that will be forthcoming if it makes sense, and won't be if it doesn't.
Instead of holding firm in the majority granted them by the voters in 2004, the Republican Senate has become spineless jellyfish caving to the Left on the issue of Iraq. Do they not see the effect this will have in the Middle East? Our allies will now wonder at what point we will cut and run as we did in Vietnam. Our enemies will see that the left is gaining traction and that the President has lost the support for the War within his own Party. This is a lose lose scenario, and the backstabbing Republicans responsible were cowardly enough to strike when the President is in Asia.
It is time again for the conservative voices to be heard. Many of the Senators with the backbone to stand by the President were freshmen. The senior Senators seem to concern with opinion polls to stand behind the war in Iraq. The primaries are just around the corner. Those who are up for reelection are looking ahead to their campaign, but so are conservative voters. If the senior senators prefer to appease the left than stand with their party, it is time to make some changes and for voters to embrace new freshmen in the primaries. Deals with the Democrats should not become the roadmap to reelection.
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Not another frickin dime, you spineless weasels.
My ability to call the GOP the lesser of two evils - and actually believe it - wanes with each passing day.
Not enough backbone to do it when Bush is in town. Complete backstabbing.
And who do you believe is the #1 target RINO nationally?
No need to reply, so many.
Well, I've written a letter to my Senator expressing my outrage.
Have you?
I guess that the Republicrats can feel solidarity with former president Clinton. He was in Dubai stabbing the troops in the back saying taking Saddam down was probably a mistake. I guess he forgot he signed the authorization for regime change in 1998 when he was under fire for firing on the blue dress.
My email to Warner:
THE SENATOR OWES THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ A PUBLIC APOLOGY!
As a Republican I was deeply disgusted by your comments on the floor of the Senate during debate on the Sense of the Senate bill regarding Iraq.
Senator, thankfully YOU don't have to dodge IEDs on the way to and from work each day. YOU haven't seen dozens of colleagues in government brutally assassinated.
The Iraqi people and their elected representatives do have to face such dangers every day, and yet they have made progress in building democracy that is astounding and historically unprecedented in its alacrity for a society lacking prior democratic traditions.
The Iraqi people and their representatives have shown a willingness to compromise and accommodate that would be commendable even in the absence of repeated mass causality bombings and other heinous provocations intended to turn the ethnicities and religions of Iraq one against the other.
HOW DARE YOU, from your position of safety and security, imperiously accuse the Iraqi people of not carrying their weight, while hundreds, if not thousands, of Iraqis line up daily outside of police stations and army recruiting centers to shoulder that load, even though they know their ques are targets for mass murderers.
YOU OWE THESE BRAVE PEOPLE A PUBLIC APOLOGY SENATOR. You likewise owe the American people an apology for thoughtlessly undermining the confidence of our vital allies, and thereby endangering their brothers in arms wearing the uniforms of the United States military.
How about something along the lines of my preceeding email to Warner as an open letter to the Senators who voted for the Warner/Durbin abomination?
With your knack as a penetrating and pithy wordsmith you could do much better, and could deliver it. Maybe a thread that freepers could "sign" with their comments?
I like the letter. I wrote to Frist and Mehlman telling them that I would send no more support until I saw some leadership in the GOP.
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