Posted on 01/09/2005 8:29:35 AM PST by Mike Fieschko
NC ping
I feel I'm with Coble on this one. Unless President bush admits to, and goes forward with, a complete return to Manifest Destiny, then the Iraqi's should do a little more in their own country. I had a perfectly decent seeming boyfriend go to Iraq for a few months and come back liking John Kerry! The horror!
Sounds like one hell of a forward thinker there. Yup, just pull out, let Zarqawi and Bin Laden take over the country, that's a good idea. Sure will help inspire the Iranians, and send a clear message that we're paper tigers! Not to mention that it will make the sacrifices of our soldiers all in vain.
We can't take any pain, yell it from the rooftops!
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
I just hate quitters like this sorry congresscritter. For shame!
He is a pure politician!
U.S. Rep. Howard Coble, dean of the state's congressional delegation and an avowedly strong supporter of President Bush, says it's time for the United States to consider withdrawing from war-ravaged Iraq.
The so-called Congressional black caucus is a clown college.
Ted Kennedy questioning Alberto Gonzales about water torture is a farce.
If I were Mr. Gonzales I would say srew the job and reply......
"Senator Kennedy, does leaving a young woman in a submerged car for 10 hours to drown qualify you as an expert in water torture?"
I definitely would have destroyed that fat pos on the spot!!
Sad to say, this buffoon is from my state and a Republican to boot. Unfortunately, he's not in my district or I'd have the privilege of voting against him in the next election.
Well there's the problem, right there! When did he start channeling Howard Dean?
President Bush is already considering a US withdrawal from
Iraq....at the right time.
Coble, a professional pol for at least 20 years, seems to
be saying we should pull out at the WRONG time, abandon the
objective of a free Irag and let over a 1,000 U.S. military
deaths go for naught, waste, vapor.
Truly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
How can anyone be for the wrong decision?
He's a politician, and he obvously believes his job is in danger and that the BURNING ISSUE of his future employment should outweigh the losses and the gains in Iraq.
He can be contacted here: howard.coble@mail.house.gov
Let's see if some emails might make him remember the stakes and how best to please his consituency.
Pulling out of Iraq now would be foolish. The radical Zarqawi-types would end up taking over the country, and we'd not only be handing a new training ground to Al Qaida, but we'd also be giving the world's second largest oil reserve to Osama bin Laden. Until the population of Iraq, which is majority Shia, is able to run their country without help (and that's going to take some time) we cannot abandon them. Until they stand up a government with effective security and rule of law, we're there, period.
Coble = political garbage.
First, Lindsey Graham channels Hillary Clinton while questioning Gonzales, and now this old coot shoots off his mouth about withdrawal from Iraq.
Lots of egos suddenly jumping into the fray.
TELL THAT TO THE TROOPS AND THE IRAQI PEOPLE!
Washington DC Office Email Howard Coble:
howard.coble@mail.house.gov
2468 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-3306
This politician is NUTS!
This is politics at its worst. US Rep. Coble also happens to be the Chairman on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. He voted against the sweeping 911 Bill because it did not prohibit states from issuing drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. In his current capacity as chairman of this committee, and given his military background, he has to know how ill-advised a pullout in Iraq would be right now. It would send the wrong message to terrorists that America doesn't have the stomach to see this war to its logical and necessary conclusion.
I too am a North Carolinian, but also not in his district. We need to find someone to run against him.
I understand your position. After all, the task in Iraq is difficult and only the Greatest Generation would have had the strength and character to deal with that task. We it seems, the generations following the Greatest, are not made of such stern stuff.
If Coble is depressed about the headlines now, he would have died a million cowardly deaths reading WWII headlines. Example, we lost 400,000 military personal in that war. WWII began in late 1941 and ended middle 1945. Approximately 300 US soldiers, Marines, sailors and pilots died a day, a simple average calculation. There wasn't even a glimmer of victory until July of 1944. On D-Day we lost about 8,000 soldiers. In the Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 1944 - Jan. 1945) we suffered 80,000 casualties in a period of 5-6 weeks. That is only the European Theater. Do you have any idea of the losses the Navy and the Marines suffered in the Pacific Theater?
The goal of the US is to change the political environment in the Mideast to ensure future hope in an area of the world that will have nucluear weapons. That is a messy assignment. Judging by Coble's statement we neither have the will nor the character to do that.
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