Posted on 01/15/2006 10:07:35 AM PST by oxcart
John Murtha, the top Democrat of the House defense appropriations subcommittee predicts that "the vast majority" of U.S. troops deployed in IRAQ will be forced to leave the country by year's end, or maybe sooner.
"I think the vast majority will be out by the end of the year and I'm hopeful it will be sooner than that," Murtha, the veteran U.S. congressman who urged the BUSH administration in November to set a withdrawal plan for the occupying forces in IRAQ, told the CBS "60 Minutes" show, according to excerpts of the interview released by the network.
Murtha further predicted that the U.S. President would be forced to accept an Iraq pullout plan as inaction will lead to the Republicans lose control of Congress in the November midterm elections.
"You're going to see a plan for withdrawal," he insisted.
Murtha believes the Congress will pass a plan calling for pullout of U.S. troops from IRAQ because of rising voter dissatisfaction with the deteriorating situation in the war-torn country.
"I think the political people who give advice will say to him, 'You don't want a Democratic Congress. You want to keep a Republican majority, and the only way you're going to keep it is by reducing substantially the troops in Iraq,'" Murtha said.
Last November, the first veteran of the Vietnam War elected to Congress, sparked controversy by demanding the U.S government to withdraw all American forces in IRAQ in six months, insisting the war was grounded in "a flawed policy wrapped in illusion."
At first the BUSH administration strongly rejected the congressman's demand and criticized it saying that it was tantamount to "surrender". But later it toned down its criticism, saying that the U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH just had an honest policy disagreement with him.
Samual Adams:
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." 'Nuff Said
Thanks!!!!
You have out done yourself. BTW who is the the guy jumping up and down just above Kennedy's head?
LOL...you are too good! Katie Corrupt such a nice girl/sarcasm
I read his 'in forum' posts. I think he is Canadian.
Thanks. :-)
I read his 'in forum' posts. I think he is Canadian.
maybe it will help you to get your head straight as a Canadian. Three good Canadian soldiers fighting for freedom were wounded in Afghanistan, kiss their feet and worship them!( LOL)
Thanks for the correction!
I should have put a helmet on, but that would be reason #6346.
"To: cmppc
And I suspect you are a dog-butt sniffing troll."
Good call!
'The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. '
George Orwell
Well you'll get no argument from me there, LOL.
I smell cheese..................
BTTT
Employing a few hundred thousand non-Muslim troops to control a country of 23 million Muslims who all hate you would not merely be difficult. It would be impossible. If only two or three percent of the population were actively engaged in resisting you, you wouldn't last six months.
The best guess is that fewer than 20,000 Iraqis (less than one tenth of a percent of the population) is actively fighting the allied presence.
This one tenth of one percent has Murtha cowering in a ditch.
>>>>Time to mount a political campaign on Murtha's home turf.
First the voter fraud has to be stopped. It is Congress that is suppose to protect the rights of citizens ability to vote.
This is why corrupt congressmen are so dangerous. They help the take over of America one state at a time.
>>>>Since the folks in PA have been sending this lunatic to Congress for over THREE DECADES (30+ years for you folks in Rio Linda or Government Schools).
Try pooring through the mail in voter registrations and see how many of the voters are actually 2 years old?
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