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House Democrats' New Strategy: Force Slow End to War (Slow-bleed Defeat)
Politco.com ^ | 2-14-07 | John Bresnahan

Posted on 02/14/2007 11:16:47 AM PST by smoothsailing

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To: smoothsailing

Doesn't matter to me! The more people that hear about this BS, the better!


21 posted on 02/14/2007 12:07:03 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: GitmoSailor
We did the right thing, Gitmo, both of us. :-)
22 posted on 02/14/2007 12:07:50 PM PST by smoothsailing (All Your Base Belong To Freema)
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To: smoothsailing

Here in Indy, Moveon.org is already running ads showing people claiming to be Iraq veterans who are against the war, and telling us to call our Sen and Reps and tell them not to support the troop surge.


23 posted on 02/14/2007 12:09:41 PM PST by DaiHuy (There is no situation so bad it cannot be made worse by the police.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Agreed, and there are 3 hours of seperation between the two postings, so the mods are probably cool with it.

It's worth keeping alive, folks need to know the truth.

24 posted on 02/14/2007 12:10:54 PM PST by smoothsailing (All Your Base Belong To Freema)
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To: smoothsailing

Don't you think the surge troops will already be there before Murtha introduces this in a month, and couldn't they be finished in six months before their current funding expires?


25 posted on 02/14/2007 12:33:57 PM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: ClaireSolt
Yes, the reinforcements (I hate the word surge) will be there, many already are, Murtha can't stop that.

The problem will come if Murtha gets his way on stopping future deployments because they "aren't adequately trained or equipped".

That means no rotations, the troops there now will not get replacements when they come back home. At least that's the gist of Murtha's slow-bleed plan. He thinks he can draw down troop levels by not allowing more to go over, at some point all that are there now will rotate back.

It's a cowards way of ending our presence there. He can claim he's concerned about the troops, while gutting their mission.

26 posted on 02/14/2007 12:46:13 PM PST by smoothsailing (All Your Base Belong To Freema)
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To: smoothsailing

Cut and Walk?????


27 posted on 02/14/2007 12:50:21 PM PST by traditional1
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To: traditional1
Not even that. More like incremental defeat. Murtha's plan is to humiliate The United States from any and all directions.
28 posted on 02/14/2007 12:56:05 PM PST by smoothsailing (All Your Base Belong To Freema)
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To: smoothsailing
Andrews, who met with Murtha on Tuesday to discuss legislative strategy, acknowledged "there is a relationship" with the House Democratic leadership and the anti-war groups, but added, "It is important for our members that we not be seen as an arm of the Democratic Caucus or the Democratic Party. We're not hand in glove."

Bull-f***ing s***!

29 posted on 02/14/2007 1:51:41 PM PST by Christian4Bush (Too bad these leftist advocates for abortion didn't practice what they preach on themselves.)
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To: Christian4Bush
Well said!

Just the latest version of the same old democrat/socialist/communist bund.

30 posted on 02/14/2007 1:56:02 PM PST by smoothsailing (All Your Base Belong To Freema)
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To: OldGuard1

Great quote unfortunately Lincoln didn't say it. It was made by J. Michael Waller for an article in Insight magazine.


31 posted on 02/14/2007 1:59:24 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: smoothsailing; All
Two from a couple of Pookie18's FR "Today's Toons" threads:

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32 posted on 02/14/2007 2:03:16 PM PST by musicman
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To: smoothsailing

Don't overspecify your search. I would just search on the two words most likely to be found in any headline on the topic, "house war", and sort by date.

If you type in a whole title you might make a typo that kills it. If you type in too many words, you might miss matches the use 'Iraq' instead of 'war', for example.


33 posted on 02/14/2007 6:36:25 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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"Cutting off funding as described by the media and White House is a caricature," Mazzie said. "It has never happened in U.S. history, and it won't happen now."


BULL on both parts! The RATs cut off funding for the Vietnam war when we left and they won't hesitate to do it with Iraq.


34 posted on 02/14/2007 6:58:36 PM PST by RWB Patriot
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To: finnman69

Great video- thanks!


35 posted on 02/14/2007 7:08:51 PM PST by keats5 (tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
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To: ClaireSolt

"Don't you think the surge troops will already be there before Murtha introduces this in a month, and couldn't they be finished in six months before their current funding expires?"

That sounds like a plan to me. Heck, the Dems could even try to work in some more non-binding resolutions to keep their constituents happy in the meantime.


36 posted on 02/14/2007 7:11:21 PM PST by keats5 (tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
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To: Right Wing Assault
Thanks, your advice is well recieved.

I would add also searching by " match all words" in addition to "order by post time". Using the first 3 or 4 words of an article title are usually all that's needed.

I've posted over 1,100 threads in my 6+ years around here and I can only recall posting a dupe 4 or 5 times.

Today was one of those times. Imagine my surprise! LOL!

FRegards...

37 posted on 02/14/2007 7:17:33 PM PST by smoothsailing (All Your Base Belong To Freema)
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To: smoothsailing

This strategy would go nowhere if we had Republicans willing to stand up and call them the traitorous cowards they are in pulling this.


38 posted on 02/14/2007 7:42:32 PM PST by plain talk
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You're right, forceful public condemnation by "gloves off" R's would stop it.

The dems would move on and come up with a different plan, they'll never quit working for America's defeat.

It's what they do, it's all they are.

39 posted on 02/14/2007 7:52:02 PM PST by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Have we ended WWII yet?? How bout defunding Germany, Japan and Korea??

Pray for W and Our Troops


40 posted on 02/14/2007 7:54:35 PM PST by bray (Redeploy our Troops to Tehran)
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