Posted on 12/12/2005 6:09:11 AM PST by Coop
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush is using a visit to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, birthplace of the U.S. Constitution, as a reminder before the Iraqi elections that the path to American democracy was not always easy either.
Pennsylvania also is the home state of a leading Iraq war critic, Democratic Rep. John Murtha, who planned to speak on Bush's heels and repeat his call to bring the troops home from a fight he says has become too violent and out of control...
Iraqis are preparing to vote under tight security to elect a 275-member parliament that will run the country for the next four years. The election will be the first under the new constitution ratified in an October 15 referendum and will complete the steps toward democratization following the ouster of Saddam Hussein's government.
Monday's Iraq speech is Bush's third, part of a campaign to win support for the mission, with most Americans saying in polls that they disapprove of his handling of the war. The speech is scheduled for 11:15 a.m. ET.
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Keep Talking Moonbat Murtha!
I think he's talking out his azz.
We are no longer liberators, we are occupiers.
Small army, small army.....
watch....next for the dems......will be a call for a draft.
FNC cut him off
I WISH they wouldn't do that
He's nuts I tell ya!
ummmm, well, I guess none of the media felt this was important enough to air?
He is calling General Casey a fool?
MSNBC still has it
He says we are short radios
They already did that before the '04 election. They did not even vote for it. Idiots....
Dang, I turned off FNC - off to pMSNBC
shoot, I don't have msnbc....I'll rely on you all!
Murtha says we already lost .. we lost the hearts & minds of Iraqis and at home
DANG ... MSNBC cut him off
LOL MSNBC just cut him off. Nothing on CNN either. He is SOOOO irrelevant.
What a piece of work this guy is!
Yes, by the time I got in on - it was over. Did he honestly have the unmitigated gall to call Gen. Casey a fool???
Yep .. he kept saying how we haven't met our goals .. something like only reached 84% of the goal
He is unbelievable Miss Marple!!
....next for the dems......will be a call for a draft.
"They already did that before the '04 election. They did not even vote for it. Idiots...."
I remember.....that was charlie Rangel.....but I keep thinking that they may get so fed up with not having a timetable that they will use Murtha's 'expertise' about the military, to call for a draft.
You are assuming the WMD was his only argument. It was not. He is simply stating that there were ample reasons to depose the "Baghdad Butcher" and WMD was but one of them.
BBC poll is optimistic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538613/posts
"The BBC News website's World Affairs correspondent, Paul Reynolds, says the survey shows a degree of optimism at variance with the usual depiction of the country as one in total chaos.
The findings are more in line with the kind of arguments currently being deployed by US President George W Bush, he says."
I'm not sure .. he did say Casey .. though I'm not sure if he meant General
He was talking about money that would still be needed for Iraq
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