A----- are fogetting who they work for! They've been told what kind of message this sends to terrorists and what it does to our soldiers. They keep putting politics above the nations security and the safety of our soldiers.
I really don't have a problem with McCain's bill
How about exeterminating anyone capable of raising a rifle against an American soldier. Let Iraq start all over. No tribes, no classes, everyone starts on an equal playing field.
Congress voting on tactical wartime benchmarks and providing wartime oversight? What exactly is a "commander in chief" anyway? Seems like congress now wants to be the "committee in chief of the armed forces."
A "sense of the Senate" resolution is an oxymoron. Senators have no sense.
I'll say it's important. I want the names of everyone of them who is willing to put our servicemen and women in greater danger. Not to mention our country.
I will be sending several emails in the next few days, but it is so frustrating to realize this country may have reached the point where bio-mechanical creatures far outnumber Americans.
Each day Iraqis in al Anbar province and Baghdad choose whether a militia, death squad, terrorist cell or national government can protect them. How ironic their life and death choices depend upon whether people safe at home, half a world away, abide mental distractions and discomforts. How Ironic Iraqi horrific sacrifices for peace and freedom depend upon whether politicians pander to self-absorption or choose currently unpopular statesmanship.
However, a Newsweek poll indicates two thirds of those existing in this country seem too fragile to undergo such stresses. Supposedly the country is headed in the wrong direction when job growth covers over 95% of those wanting employment, inflation is controlled at 20 year lows, the stock market surmounts all time highs fueling 401k’s, home ownership reaches all time highs and oil prices keep falling. Somehow malaise overcomes people, while they absent-mindedly feed garbage disposals sufficient food to enrich Darfur. As people exercise their 911 divine right to summon public safety professionals, they regularly castigate Presidential efforts to bring Iraqi citizens a fraction of that security.
Media images provide such people more action in a week, than a Marine sees in a deployment. People then legitimize decisions with brain stem reactions to visuals, without evaluation that 3,000 dead is less than half the Union army experienced in 15 minutes at Cold Harbor during the previous war for our country’s survival.
Zawahiri and bin Laden assert victory for Wahabbi/Salafi jihadism first demands conquering Iraq to establish Baghdad “The Capital of the Caliphate”, and to access infrastructure enabling sophisticated terrorist attacks against the U.S. Iraqi security through national government thwarts primary terrorist objectives.