Posted on 02/16/2007 5:35:48 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
As far as former three-star Adm. Joe Sestak is concerned, the Democrats have just begun to fight back on Iraq.
Sestak, the freshman congressman from Delaware County, is committed to getting U.S. forces out of Iraq by year's end.
Calling the war a "tragic misadventure," the 31-year Navy veteran said in a floor speech that his experience says "don't double down on a bad military bet by using more troops as the president has proposed, when an increase has not worked before."
Three days of debate on a nonbinding resolution are scheduled to end today with a vote.
I always wanted to say that. :-}
We lost Curt Weldon for this piece of crap. That district deserves anything bad it gets.
It seems like this ex-admiral now wears his rank on his a$$. Must be another Clintonista like Weasley Clark.
It's a strange mindset revealed by this statement. Have the Republicans been unilaterally fighting the dems? No, not at all. In fact, the dems voted for this war. The conclusion I draw is that the dems see themselves in the same light as our other enemies, whom we are fighting---namely, the islamofascists.
That's what I thought...
And a "non binding resolution" is exactly the path a chicken hawk would take..
At the level of 0-6 and above, and especially graduates of senior professional military education programs (the Air, Naval, Army or National War College, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and joint strategic schools)jointness and broad spectrum war fighting becomes the necessary operational art. The new CinC of CENTCOM is an admiral (yes, I know our wannabe hands-on combatant president has decreed that he is the one and only CinC; pure idiocy). Commanding joint forces requires that the admiral understand the mud Marine and army infantry situation; the air force general understand the naval battle group's problems as well as its operational and tactical abilities, and so on. The art and science of war fighting from the strategic command center is as esoteric and demading as open heart surgery. So yes, the ''navy man'' as you so delicately describe the new congressman from Philly, knows well the criteria for deployment of ground forces.
We're the ones who suffer, not the district. He's a congressman for the entire U.S., not the mayor of a few Rat-infested towns in PA.
Heh -- good one!
This insidious man was put in office by the Clintonistas, in particular Mr. "Pants" Berger, the thief.
Sestak, the freshman congressman from Delaware County, is committed to DIS-BANDING U.S. forces.
And a "non binding resolution" is exactly the path a chicken hawk would take..
Also admits Democrats cannot get us out of Iraq,
another campaign promise down the drain.
Then explain why he apparently believes war is static. A lot has taken place between the last increase in troops - to cover the elections and this one. The Iraqi gov't is stronger, more assured of its footing, the people are starting to cooperate, etc. and yet all this is ignored in order to claim this so called surge, but in reality a reinforcement mission for those already in Baghdad, won't work. I'll take my husband's can do attitude any time over his retreat and fail attitude any day.
The only tragic misadventure is the voters of my county putting this political hack in office.
I am happy for your husband's ''can do'' spirit, he sounds like a fellow to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with in a tough spot. But how does that individual attribute explain the military policy being debated and contested?
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Sestak must think the situation in Iraq has not changed and is therefore 'static'. Thanks for the compliment on being unintelligible middie. Same to you.
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