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IREY: JUST WHY DID JACK MURTHA VOTE AGAINST THE PATRIOT ACT, ANYWAY? (Irey/Murtha)
Diana Irey for Congress website ^ | 8-11-06 | Diana Irey statement

Posted on 08/11/2006 2:14:52 PM PDT by smoothsailing

IREY: JUST WHY DID JACK MURTHA VOTE AGAINST THE PATRIOT ACT, ANYWAY?

Friday, August 11, 2006

(MONONGAHELA, August 11) -- Washington County Commissioner and Pennsylvania 12th district Republican Congressional nominee Diana Irey -- responding to the arrest in the UK of 24 alleged terrorists, and the arrest in Pakistan of another seven, including at least one who is reported to be a member of al Qaeda -- today released the following statement:

"As I said yesterday, the arrests in the United Kingdom -- and last week's and yesterday's arrests in Pakistan -- represent a significant victory in the ongoing war on terror. They couldn't have happened without the combined work of the British, American, and Pakistani intelligence and law enforcement services.

"These arrests demonstrate that enhanced intelligence collection and analysis, and enhanced international cooperation, are essential tools in the global war on terror. Giving our intelligence and law enforcement agencies greater tools, such as those contained in the provisions of the Patriot Act, the terrorist surveillance program, and sophisticated financial tracking are indispensable in our ongoing efforts to defeat those who seek our destruction.

"Further, these arrests demonstrate that the best defense is a good offense -- that, rather than wait until planes are blown out of the sky, we must continue to support efforts to strike pre-emptively.

"And, perhaps just as important, these arrests demonstrate that, now more than ever, Washington needs leaders who remain committed to winning the war on terror, no matter the political considerations. Terrorists don't take polls to decide how, when and where they're going to strike -- and neither should our nation's leaders.

"Curiously, for some reason, Jack Murtha has yet to make a public comment on the foiling of this terrorist plot.

"Could that be because he's trying to figure out how to defend his vote against extending the provisions of the Patriot Act?

"Jack Murtha was one of a number of Democrats who voted against extending the life of the Patriot Act. On December 14, 2005, he cast a vote that would have stripped U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies of the expanded powers they'd been using to prevent terrorist attacks against us for the last several years -- the kind of powers that have led to the disruption of more than 150 terrorist threats and cells around the world, and which have been used to aid in investigations which led to more than 400 individuals being charged right here in America, and led to more than 200 individuals being convicted or pleading guilty in terrorism-related cases.

"Those expanded powers to conduct intelligence operations against terrorists were merely the same kind of provisions previously used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies against drug traffickers and organized crime. Why Jack Murtha would vote against extending those provisions to combat international terrorism is beyond me -- especially given that when the Patriot Act was first considered, in 2002, he voted to give our intelligence and law enforcement agencies those very same powers.

"Once again, it appears that Jack Murtha's determination to advance his own personal political interests -- that is, his desire to become Majority Leader -- has led him to vote on behalf of his favored constituents in the liberal House Democratic Caucus, rather than on behalf of the people who actually send him to Congress, right here in southwest Pennsylvania.

"But the people of southwest Pennsylvania deserve a Member of Congress of their very own. And that's why I'll never confuse southwest Pennsylvania with San Francisco, and why I'll always vote to represent my constituents right here in Pennsylvania."

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Paid for by Diana Irey for Congress www.irey.com


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cutnrunaway; fauxmedals; irey; murtha; murthaisapos; murthaisaterrorist; nowarhero; oldsenilegeezer; patriotact; terrorism; traitormurtha; warcoward
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To: potlatch

Looks more like an Islamic love machine to me.


61 posted on 08/11/2006 7:36:24 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: smoothsailing

I love picnics! I'll whip up dinner and you grab some beer. Dang, if I don't tell my hubby though, he'll wonder where all that chicken and tater salad went. lol!


62 posted on 08/11/2006 7:38:49 PM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: Interesting Times
Murtha v. America ping...

Well said! Thanks.

63 posted on 08/11/2006 7:51:40 PM PDT by zot (GWB -- the most slandered man of this decade)
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To: Chena
Aw heck, I knew sooner or later we'd have to bring along Mr.Chena and Mrs. Smooth. Now I gotta get two 6-packs!!! LOL!
64 posted on 08/11/2006 7:53:45 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Support The Troops-Support The Mission--Please Visit http://www.irey.com--&--Vets4Irey.com)
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To: smoothsailing

And I've gotta cook another batch of cornbread! You know what they say, the more, the merrier. So bring a case. teehee


65 posted on 08/11/2006 7:59:14 PM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: smoothsailing

It has been on various programs on Fox News that the law used by the Brits for surveillance that stopped this "Terror in the Skies" plot was a Patriot Act-type law.

Now, we need to ride this horse until it falls down and let the voters know that if John Murtha and Harry Reid had their way, there would be 10 jet airplanes and between 2000 and 3000 bodies floating in the Atlantic on August 16th.


66 posted on 08/11/2006 8:16:22 PM PDT by no dems (www.4condi.com)
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To: no dems
Ride that horse and spread that word.

We can't quit this fight, we can't walk away and call it a draw.

We would buy little time, at a price that would haunt our future.

67 posted on 08/11/2006 8:53:38 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Support The Troops-Support The Mission--Please Visit http://www.irey.com--&--Vets4Irey.com)
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To: Interesting Times

I still don’t understand how this politician was elected in a Western Pennsylvania district. Things have changed since I lived up there so long ago.


68 posted on 08/12/2006 2:19:47 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Cobra64

The MYSTERY! host in her younger days? Same Diana Rigg?


69 posted on 08/12/2006 2:40:43 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Interesting Times

BTTT


70 posted on 08/12/2006 3:12:11 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: smoothsailing
Bump and Elect Diana Irey --- Donate Today!


71 posted on 08/12/2006 5:48:17 AM PDT by W04Man (Bush2004 Grassroots Campaign We Did It! NOW.... PLEASE STAY THE COURSE!)
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To: W04Man
Oh, Diana was at Walter Reed, in Spirit, last night:


72 posted on 08/12/2006 5:53:47 AM PDT by W04Man (Bush2004 Grassroots Campaign We Did It! NOW.... PLEASE STAY THE COURSE!)
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To: Interesting Times; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Boazo; Alamo-Girl; PhilDragoo; ...

ttfp -


73 posted on 08/12/2006 5:55:16 AM PDT by bitt ("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.")
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To: A CA Guy

Just because he doesn't mind being screwed by Islamofascists doesn't mean the rest of us would enjoy it.


74 posted on 08/12/2006 5:56:18 AM PDT by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: Republican Wildcat
Dianna Rigg played the character of a detective Mrs. Peel in The Avengers series in the 1960s.

I was an avid fan of hers.

When our daughter was born in 1978, we name our daughter "Diana."

75 posted on 08/12/2006 9:37:34 AM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: RedRover

Thanks, I think that every Republican candidate should dig up quotes by their Democrat opponents on the NSA wiretaps and make them the basis of their election campaign. They could say something like, the terrorist plot to blow up US bound airplanes was recently foiled, thanks in part to the NSA wiretaps and other security precautions that my opponent wanted to end.Then go on to give the quote by the opponent. They could end the ad with a clip of a young family waving good bye at an airport (even though you can no longer see anyone to a gate).


76 posted on 08/12/2006 12:45:02 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Eva

Great idea! I hope some candidates are lurking to learn from the base.


77 posted on 08/12/2006 12:53:49 PM PDT by RedRover (Boot Murtha! www.irey.com)
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To: freema

We think Murtha has financial connections to the company that makes Vaseline.


78 posted on 08/12/2006 2:53:56 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

THAT EXPLAINS IT

Where did the idea for Vaseline Petroleum Jelly come from?

Robert Augustus Cheesebrough.

In 1859 when oil was first found in Pennsylvania, Cheesebrough was a 22 year old chemist in Brooklyn who had become an expert at extracting kerosene from cannel oil.

He realized that petroleum products would be the fuel source of the future so he headed to Pennsylvania to get his piece of the action.

He noticed that a colorless film called "rod wax" collected around the pump rods on the oil wells, gumming up the works until it was removed. He also observed oil workers who would slap the stuff on a cut, instead of a bandage. Not only did it stay on the skin and stop the bleeding, but it seemed to help cure the wound.

Cheesebrough returned to Brooklyn with some rod-wax and spent months creating a clean form of rod-wax which he called "petroleum jelly". He began making so much of this stuff that every beaker in his laboratory was full, so he threw out his wife's flowers and filled the vases with his creation.

After awhile, he added the popular medical term "line" to the word "vase" and he called the product "Vaseline Petroleum Jelly."
http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/vaseline.asp


79 posted on 08/12/2006 4:37:15 PM PDT by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: no dems

You nailed it. The left wants us to allow non US Citizens Constutional Rights during a war. Give me a break. Add the MSM bias and even the MSM idiots who have never served one day on active duty, much less in war, are telling us the strategy. Experts are those who have not had a command in war, have not lead, have not followed, and they refuse to get the hell out of the way.


80 posted on 08/12/2006 6:21:12 PM PDT by Lumper20
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