Posted on 02/14/2007 11:16:47 AM PST by smoothsailing
Coming Tomorrow!!
CHAIRMAN JACK MURTHA TO OUTLINE COMMITTEE STRATEGY ON BUSH’S IRAQ FUNDING REQUEST THURSDAY MORNING AT 11:00 AM EST ON MOVECONGRESS.ORG
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Join us tomorrow at 11:00 AM EST when Congressman Jack Murtha will outline new details of a strategy to use his Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense to oppose the Bush war in Iraq. Congressman Jim Moran, another Committee member, predicts the Committee action will be the “bite” that follows this week’s Congressional “bark” – the three-day debate on a non-binding Congressional resolution. The Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense has begun consideration of the president’s $93 billion supplemental appropriations request for Iraq. Action on the request will be the first opportunity for the new Congress to exercise its “power-of-the-purse” over the Iraq war. Chairman Murtha will describe his strategy for not only limiting the deployment of troops to Iraq but undermining other aspects of the president’s foreign and national security policy. Chairman Murtha discusses these steps in a videotaped conversation with former Congressman Tom Andrews (D-ME), the National Director of the Win Without War coalition, sponsor of MoveCongress.org.
Join us here tomorrow for this exclusive interview.
From an article by Mark Silverberg:
"In the end, American support for the Vietnam War faded. Giap admitted in his memoirs that news media reporting of the war and the antiwar demonstrations that ensued in America surprised him. Instead of negotiating what he called a "conditional surrender," Giap said they would now go the limit because America's resolve was weakening and the possibility of complete victory was within Hanoi's grasp.
Bui Tin, who served on the general staff of the North Vietnamese army, received South Vietnam's unconditional surrender on April 30, 1975. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal after his retirement, he made clear that the antiwar movement in the United States (which led to the collapse of political will in Washington) was "essential to our strategy."
These lessons have not been lost to a new era of Islamic fascists for we can see the implications arising, once again, in Iraq. America can win the war in Iraq. The question is whether we will lose the war here at home as we did during Vietnam. The terrorist opponents of a new Iraq are cleverly playing to American fears of another Vietnam and our media and some of our elected representatives are unwittingly buying into the strategy."
http://www.jfednepa.org/mark%20silverberg/measure_nation.html
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man, i'm behind tonight.
Thanks for the heads up, I'll tune in in the morning to see what happens.
They indeed got that right: "Come and hear how the national security policy of the United States of America is going to be undermined..."
For those of us who remember World War II, These blatant words and statements and schemes are plain, simple sedition.
There would have been so much outrage then over such a scheme that the plotters - which is what they are - would have been tried as saboteurs and put in prison for years.
Has this nation become so desensitized that it is going to as-a-matter-fact allow its national security policy to be undermined for sheer political opportunism - and the nation plunged into an anarchy which will castrate the defenses of this nation?
The "media" and "elected representatives" are to a significant degree "buying into the strategy" because they WANT American failure in Iraq.
Many of these, on the left, both inwardly and openly despise their own nation and own people; and, most of all, place immediate political gain, and destruction of Republicans and all conservatives, above not only victory in Iraq but even our own national security as incredible as this may seem.
Truly, they ARE whores and pimps of the worst and most dangerous kind - because they have power. And they will result in the killing of us all, our loved ones, and future generations, if they have their way.
must come back when my eyes will stay open bump
Any Republican that supports these traitors deserve to be thrown out.
Pray for W anbd Our Freedom Fighters
It is..
Slow Bleed, blame the Republicans for the slow bleed, then in 2008 call for full cut and run during primaries so Barak Obama gets nomination and Dems take commanding majorities in the House (Making so called "Blue Dogs" irrelevant) and the Senate (able to break fillabusters). Then, the Rats can force really stupid things down our throats like they did in the late '70s.
House Democrats' New Strategy: Force Slow End to War!
Not a surprise at all; we all knew that that would be what they would do. They took both Houses and yearn to relieve their glory days, when they made Vietnam a shambles.
Led by Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Pa., and supported by several well-funded anti-war groups, the coalition's goal is to limit or sharply reduce the number of U.S. troops available for the Iraq conflict, rather than to openly cut off funding for the war itself...
Entirely predictable. The Democrats are determined to destroy our military.
Voting for the Democrats in the last election was a vote to cut and run from Iraq and to destroy our military.
Thank you so much for the ping - please feel free to ping anything like this to me. As was stated earlier, I agree with the following:
"Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled or hanged." -- Abraham Lincoln
Enough said!!!!
Republicans must go on the offensive and publically decry the liberal tactics.
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