Kerry: Senate GOP Proposal for Iraq Withdrawal Shows GOP Support for War "Crumbling"

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

Earlier today I posted a thread reporting on Bill Frist's appearance on the Today show, during which he touted his weak-sister proposal for withdrawal from Iraq. Here's a link to the thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522296/posts

Sure enough, it didn't take the Dems long to exploit Frist's weakness. Check out the email below just received from John Kerry. Frist and his fellow GOP supporters of the proposal have no one to blame but themselves.

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Dear ,

You can feel the ice breaking. For far too long, Republican leaders have refused to challenge the aimless Bush "stay as long as it takes" approach to Iraq. But now, their unwillingness to act has started to crumble.

Today in the Senate, facing a Democratic resolution on Iraq, the Republicans offered their own call for President Bush to come up with a plan. They didn't go nearly far enough, but clearly our call for a concrete plan is gaining momentum.

It's time for the next step. Help our "20,000 troops home over the holidays" campaign place billboards in the home districts of Republican leaders.

Help place billboards in Republican leaders' home districts

To date, over a quarter of a million people have signed our call to withdraw 20,000 troops from Iraq over the holidays. That withdrawal should be linked to the completion of December elections in Iraq - and it should be the first step in the concrete plan for Iraq that President George W. Bush owes the American people.

We shouldn't let America's brave men and women go another day without having such a plan in place. That's why we're turning up the heat with our Billboards and House Signs campaign over the next month.

Will you add your voice and your financial support to this effort right now?

Help place billboards in Republican leaders' home districts

This is the next key step in a grassroots organizing and mobilizing campaign that won't end until we've forced the Bush administration to act. The best way to do that is to turn up the heat on Republican leaders in Congress.

It's important to get our "20,000 troops home over the holidays" message out everywhere. With your help, we'll run these billboards where they can be seen by key Republican leaders of Congress.

And, to extend this phase of our "20,000 troops home over the holidays" effort to your own hometown, here's what we've done. We've created a downloadable version of the billboard that you can print and post in your own home.

Download and display a house sign

We can feel the momentum building every day behind our call for a concrete plan for Iraq. And our Billboards and House Signs initiative can keep moving things forward. Let's make it happen.

Sincerely,

John Kerry

P.S. We've got to act fast to place and produce these billboards. In addition to donating, I hope you'll pass news of this exciting initiative on to your friends and colleagues by forwarding this message now.

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[marty60]

I liked Rummy's staement today. He said he was reading a book and a quote from Churchhill was in it. "We will win this War, if the politicians will let us" PARA

[Soul Seeker]

Kerry's a moron.

he knows this amendment only backs up what the President is already doing.

What it DOES signify, however, is that dimwitted public relation disasters in the GOP Senate caucus were repsonding to polls in attempting to have it both ways. Endorse the Administration's current actions, but create illusion they were cracking down. Will the PR challenged Senate GOP please get in touch with members on this board for communique advice? You obviously haven't a damn clue how to play this game.

What you should have done-

A resolution "voicing Confidence in the mission and our troops and voicing to the terrorists, despite reports to the contrary, we're scehduled to have surgical spine implementations and so will stay till you're all residing warmly in Hell".

THAT'S how you support the war, Our troops and our President while keeping Dems and MSM on offensive and bucking up the American people.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

I think they DROPPED me from their e-mail list. I suspect my reply on one particular day wasn't liberal enough

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Most people here are focusing on Kerry. But the real culprits are Frist and the other GOP senators who support Frist's "withdrawal" resolution. They're the ones who gave Kerry this opening.

[Txsleuth]

I have actually seen posts acting like the vote today was NO BIG DEAL....but, I don't agree...this is a big deal, because the Republicans (not all) just handed a victory on a silver platter...whether the amendment really makes changes is not even the point...it is the PERCEPTION.

BTW...the smart Republicans...the ones who voted NO on both stupid amendments are:

Burr
Demint
Coburn
Graham
Inhofe
Isaakson
Kyl
McCain
Sessions
Thune
Vitter

THESE senators need to hear from us to let them know how much we appreciate them.

[Digger]

Which is why the Repulicans should not have done what they did. Now they will need to dig themselves out of this hole.

Can these pubbies really be this dumb constantly? I don't think so ergo their strings are being pulled by the leftist/elitists.

[Shermy]

"he can always been counted upon to "have a plan.""

Hillary's plan seems to be to let her competitors bury themselves. Smart move.

[funkywbr]

THere is nothing to say about LOSER KERRY except keep talking.

It's great for firing up the Rep base come voting time.

[popdonnelly]

And John says remember to support our allies, the French.

[conservativecorner]

I blame our POS RINO senators for this.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks for posting the names of the GOP Senators with the brains and guts to vote against this ill-considered proposal.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Now that the Republican proposal has been exploited by the Democrats to undermine support for the war and President Bush's leadership, are you still convinced it was a great idea?

[Soul Seeker]

I want Sessions to run for President. :-)

[clintonh8r]

I'm ashamed that Mel Martinez is my senator. Not only is he an idiot, he is an ingrate....He was the president's hand-picked candidate, and he's voted against the president's interests on several occasions.

[new yorker 77]

These amendments are bad ideas, but to say it allowed Dems to exploit it. Come on, they exploited Christopher Reeve when he died. They will exploit anything.

The amendments are stupid, spineless, do nothing, say nothing proposals, that are irrelevant on their face and useless in their implementation.

Lib utterances are irrelevant.

GOP stupidity is relevant.

[Txsleuth]

Me too....now.

I was in Allen's corner but there have been a few votes that he has caste that have really bothered me.

Today was a chance to stand with the POTUS AND CIC, and our troops...and anyone that voted for even the Warner amendment let them down, IMHO>

[KamperKen]

John Kerry reminds me of what Wally George said about Walter Mondale during the 1984 presidential campaign.

The question was posed to Wally, "what do you thinnk of Mondale?", to which Wally replied/screamed, "He's the best man the Russians have got!".

The reply still works, just a different name.

[italianquaker]

what hole 2004 elections went pretty well no?

[Fester Chugabrew]

Nothing wrong with having a real plan if the plan is right. Besides, Republicans are far better than Democrats at planning. Democrats just move their lips and whine.