Feingold said he believed "a large troop presence has a tendency to fuel the insurgency because they can make the incorrect and unfair claim that the U.S. is here to occupy the country."
"I think that it's very possible that the sectarian differences are inflamed by the fact that U.S. troops are here," he continued, adding that their long-term presence "may well be destabilizing, not stabilizing."
Even his Democrat cohort Rep. Udall (D-NM) commented that Feingold had broken tradition by making these comments in a war zone. McVain declined to get into a public argument with "one of my best friends". Just gag me.
FEINGOLD is the one who should be censored. Somehow, knowing the lily-livered Republicans I'm not holding my breath. sheesh!!!
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Hi prairie. I agree. Somewhere along the line, our politicians have totally lost the perspective that politics ends at the water's edge. Private citizens can say and do what they want overseas, but elected and former elected officials should leave the politics at home when they travel.
I loathe Feingold and most of the denizens of the Senate these days.
Got THAT right... and censured too.
Imagine what the dems will be brazen enough to do if they ever regain congressional power. It's scary.
AGREED!! I have turned his words against President Bush around and applied them to him, thus my tagline.
I am referring primarily to CFR and its unconstitutionality, but I went back to the Senate hearings on Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. He was one of those "lawyers" who couldn't lawyer his way out of a paper bag with those two!
Additionally, most of his questions were self-serving, ignorant garbage that had to do with the constitutionality of the wiretaps.
As a Wisconsinite, let me take this opportunity (once again!) to apologize to you all for Feingold.