Psssst...I need to tell you something.
It's RINOS...Republicans In Name Only.
Posted on 08/24/2007 3:12:55 AM PDT by Stajack
The following letter was sent to Senator Warner after his comments urging President Bush to start an Iraq troop withdrawal:
Senator Warner,
It wasn’t that long ago when I saw you and a whole bunch of other Senators sitting around the table at the confirmation hearing of General Petraeus. One after another, you and others uttered your “words of wisdom” and wished the General “Godspeed” I wondered what the General was thinking at that moment, whether he shared my suspicion that he was being sent there TO FAIL, thereby giving you and others a Get Out of Iraq Free Card. Well, I guess he didn’t quite cooperate, did he? I’ll bet you and your colleagues never guessed back then that he just might turn things around. I suspect that the Brookings report about changing tides in Iraq came as an unwelcome surprise, complicating the issue, and raising the stakes for the upcoming report to the Congress by General Petraeus. So I’m not surprised at your “preemptive strike” on the General. Home by Christmas? What soldier in combat wouldn’t like to be home by Christmas? What a shallow, insincere piece of political bait. Well, General Petraeus is constrained from expressing his true feelings about the knife you just stuck in his back. But I’m not. So let me state in all earnestness, THE SENATE IS NOT WORTHY OF OUR SOLDIERS IN IRAQ, AND YOU’RE NOT WORTHY OF GENERAL PETRAEUS. The soldiers and he deserve better.
Stanley Jackson
Lawton, Oklahoma
How far South in Virginia has the Blue Disease spread? Is it past Manassas and Woodbridge yet?
I wouldn't argue with your assesment of the press. But Warner's words, in and of themselves are damaging because they give cover to the Dems AND his words will encourage other wavering RINOs to jump ship.
As someone said on a (local Baltimore) talk show today, just like locusts when Leftists/socialists ruin one place they move on to a nicer one.
In the ‘60s, I actually worked in the West Baltimore neighborhoods made famous on TV crime shows, and felt totally safe on any street there - (in the daytime), as a young blonde Public health nurse.
I cannot imagine going into those houses today to visit clients.
Pleased to meet you. I was raised near Walbrook Junction, at the end of W. North Ave. As a teenager in the 60's, our grazing range extended from Edmonson Village to Liberty Heights. We had so much fun. Trouble was never far away, but there wasn't the air of visciousness that permeates that turf today. My grandfather's house was at the corner of Monroe & Penrose Ave, which is a stone's throw from where The Corner (HBO) was filmed in 2000. Watching that show was depressing, after the good times I had there as a youth.
Sorry, but this won't wash. Warner knows how this "suggestion" will play. And he has to be pleased as can be that he's getting so much attention. That's the way things work in DC. Now he's doing some back-peddling, but the message is still the same: WITHDRAW!!!!! DEFEAT!!!!! SURRENDER!!!!! How else would an Al Qaeda terrorist interpret what he's said?
BRAVO! God bless and protect your son and all our great heroes!
“Let them FINISH their mission!”
AMEN!!
Psssst...I need to tell you something.
It's RINOS...Republicans In Name Only.
The Blue Disease has probably spread past Manassas and Woodbridge. Metro Richmond and metro Norfolk/Hampton Roads also have it.
Ouch! I have old friends who live in the Maryland suburbs, and in Northern VA. These are smart, reflective folks, from military backgrounds. But when it comes to Bush and Iraq, forget it. If THESE guys are so adamant in their views, it gives me a good insight into the demographic wave you referred to.
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