Posted on 02/15/2007 3:02:33 PM PST by mdittmar
This story deserves more attention than it’s gotten, so I’m going to give it some.
The eagle-eyed NZ Bear while running the show at the Victory Caucus noticed a strange little blurb on the website of MoveCongress.org. MoveCongress.org, for those of you fortunate enough to be unfamiliar with the group, boasts on its masthead that it wants to “Move Congress to End the War in Iraq.” This morning, the group was scheduled to be blessed with an exclusive briefing from Jack Murtha on how…well, I’ll let you see how MoveCongress.org described Murtha’s agenda:
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.
There you have it, plain as day. While the rocket scientists at MoveCongress.org have subsequently sanitized the release, there’s no putting this cat back into the bag. This is what Murtha and his cohort are up to. And, to keep this post an angry bi-partisan one, let it be acknowledged that these are the people that some Republicans are eager to ride shotgun with in a pathetic and amoral quest to keep their precious jobs.
Hannity was all over this one today
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Fox is covering this now on Brit's show. This fat slob has the nerve to claim this is to "help" the troops--tell me, please, how preventing reinforcements from going to Iraq is helping any of the troops?? These people disgust me.
Just saw this story & Murtha on Fox.
Thanks. good find!
MURTHA IS A TRAITOR! I am seething I'll have to up my BP meds!
when will we start sending them white flags - care of Jboehner to forwarded at one time?
I support MoveCongress.org, but I don't support their mission.
So we will pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan and apologize to the world for Bush's uncouth imperialism. How much is that jizya tax anyway?
http://www.movecongress.org/content/index.php
Murtha's briefing...listen live if you can
http://www.movecongress.org/content/index.php
They are just making it harder for themselves in 2008...
I don't have cable, and I had the radio off all this afternoon. (And I went to the site of the story and it was just the posted story same as here in FR)
MoveCongress is part of the Win Without War coalition. This of course comes as no suprise but here are some other members of the win without war coalition:
20/20 Vision
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
Center for International Policy (CIP)
Conference of Major Superiors of Men
Council for a Livable World
Families USA
Feminist Majority
Fourth Freedom Forum
Global Exchange
Greenpeace
Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)
MoveOn
NAACP
National Council of Churches
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
National Organization for Women (NOW)
NETWORK A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Pax Christi USA
Peace Action
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Rainbow/Push Coalition
Shalom Center
Sierra Club
Sojourners
Soulforce
The Tikkun Community
TrueMajority
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
United Church of Christ
United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society
Us Foundation
USAction
Veterans for Peace
Women's Action for New Directions (WAND)
Working Assets
Artists United to Win Without War
Musicians United to Win Without War
Nice resume they have there.
This strategy is already well underway. In acting on the Omnibus spending bill, the Congress has cut the Army budget for BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) in half. Since BRAC is mandated by law, the Army will have to move money from other accounts in order to meet the BRAC statuatory requirements. One way they have done this is to inactivate the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division rather than to move this brigade from Germany to Fort Bliss (this brigade is just now returning from a tour in Iraq). This will make the brigade unavailable for a return deployment to Iraq when their turn next comes.
Democrats are also moving to remove funding for an Army Stryker Brigade's equipment from the Supplemental Funding bill. This means that this brigade cannot convert as scheduled and therefore will not be available for deployment to Iraq.
Their scheme is very transparent to those who understand, but is designed to fool the American people by saying that they are "supporting the troops" and "funding the troops". Neither statement is true today, nor will it be true tomorrow. They are supporting the enemy, of that there is no doubt.
Do you have a source on Talovic shouting "Allah Akbar"?
It was reported in none of the accounts I've seen, all of which tried to make the Bosniac Muslim's shooting spree appear motiveless.
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