Posted on 08/31/2007 4:37:58 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 08/31/2007 Pelosi and Reid Announce Series of House and Senate Hearings on Iraq
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today announced that the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives’ Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations and the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a series of hearings during the first two weeks of September examining the war in Iraq. The hearings will focus on three upcoming reports as well as the recently published National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq and feature testimony by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), retired Marine General James Jones, and the Commander of the Armed Forces in Iraq General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador in Iraq Ryan Crocker.
The hearings will examine the ongoing situation in Iraq and the effectiveness of the President’s war policy. Congress voted in May to require reports from the GAO, General Jones, and the White House to look at the political and military situation in Iraq. The American people expect an honest and open debate and for Congress to be given the facts.
While the President continues to stay the course and ask Americans to pay for his failed strategy in Iraq, Democrats will continue to push for a new direction in Iraq to protect our troops and make America more secure.
The hearing schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds an open hearing on the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report assessing the political and military progress in Iraq- 10 a.m. 419 Dirksen
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
House Armed Services Committee holds an open hearing on the GAO report- 10:00 a.m. 2118 Rayburn
House Foreign Affairs Committee holds an open hearing on the GAO report-2:00 p.m. 2172 Rayburn
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Senate Armed Services Committee holds an open hearing on Marine General James Jones report on training and capabilities of the Iraqi security forces-10:00 a.m. 216 Hart
House Armed Services Committee holds an open hearing on report from Marine General James Jones with testimony from General Jones- 2:30 p.m. 2118 Rayburn
Senate Intelligence Committee holds a CLOSED hearing on the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq- 2:30 p.m.
Joint House Armed Services/Foreign Affairs Committees hold an open hearing on “Beyond the September Reports: What’s Next for Iraq?”-9:00 a.m. 345 Cannon
Friday, September 7, 2007
Senate Armed Services Committee holds an open hearing on the GAO report- 9 a.m. Room TBD
Monday, September 10, 2007
Joint House Armed Services/Foreign Affairs Committees hold an open hearing with U.S. Armed Forces Commander in Iraq General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker’s on their report assessing the situation in Iraq-12:30 p.m. 345 Cannon
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds an open hearing with General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker on their report on Iraq – Time and Room TBD
Senate Armed Services Committee holds an open hearing with General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker on their report on Iraq – Time and Room TBD
House Armed Services Committee holds an open hearing on contracting and weapons accountability issues in Iraq – Time and Room TBD
September 12, 2007
(tentative) Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Peter Pace – Time and Room TBD
I guess their ratings aren’t low enough.
The more they keep this crap up the better 2008 looks for the Republicans.
Talk about nailing yourself to a cross. The Rats are going to lose big next year.
Oh goody more tax payers money going to waste to feed the Dimmies egos.
At least the General gets the last word, but by then they will have spun some BS in the media.
The loons of the left. They just keep it up. Let us hope that this sleaze, treason, and uselessness, will hit home with some of the Dem voters. This is Reid’s and Pelosi’s idea of a real contribution to America — working hard for its citizens.
BS.
Shouldn’t they have their hearings AFTER the report is released? This strikes me as a preemptive strike.
I say “bring it on”. Democratic defeatism almost lost us a war, and we’re not going to let them forget it in 2008.
Reid and Pelosi will not do the right thing. But I didn’t have a problem with this press release until it got to the “failed policy” part. No bias there.
I wish with all my might that I could kick those two, Pelosei (sic) and Reed (sic) to the curb. Would that the blind people who voted for these 2 would see the light!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Looks like Beanos is going to be busy the next month.
AN INTERESTING ANALOGY........
WW II - Analogy
During World War II — the Japanese developed a way to demoralize the American forces. Psychological warfare experts developed a message they felt would work. They gave the script to their famous broadcaster “Tokyo Rose” and every day she would broadcast this same message packaged in different ways, hoping it would have a negative impact on American GI’s morale.
What was that demoralizing message? It had three main points:
1. Your President is lying to you.
2. This war is illegal.
3. You cannot win the war.
Does this sound familiar?
Hillary, Harry, John, Teddy, Nancy, and etc. have picked up on the same message and are broadcasting it on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc., to our nation’s citizens and our troops?
The only difference is that they claim to support our troops before they demoralize them. Come to think of it, didn’t Tokyo Rose tell the troops she was on their side, too?
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