Never mind... out he goes... Witherspoon BUMP!
Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."
Posted on 11/27/2007 10:05:21 PM PST by smoothsailing
Fund our troops in Iraq
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Sometimes it is hard to tell fantasy from reality on Capitol Hill. Take the question of Iraq war funding, where Democratic "experts" on defense seem to living in cloud-cuckoo land, arguing against the facts that the Defense Department has enough funds to fight the war in Iraq without further congressional action. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., used that argument this week to justify recent House action tying any new appropriation to a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, a position rightly rejected by President Bush.
As a result, the Defense Department announced last week it will begin sending furlough notices before Christmas to 200,000 civilian employees and the work forces of some contractors because it will run out of funds to operate most military bases before the end of March. Unless Congress relents, the forces in the field may soon run out of ammunition and other war-fighting supplies, department spokesman Geoff Morrell said.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, just returned from a Thanksgiving weekend trip to Iraq, said Monday the Democratic proposal is a recipe for losing the war.
While the president plans to reduce forces in Iraq by about 30,000 by the middle of next year, Sen. Graham said he was informed by Gen. David Petraeus that at least 15 brigades, numbering about 130,000 men, are likely to be needed to secure the gains made during the current surge. Announcing a departure date for those forces, said Sen. Graham, would give al-Qaida notice we are leaving, and would also seriously undermine prospects for reconciliation among Iraq's religious and tribal factions.
In a debate with Sen. Graham on "Fox News Sunday," Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan said failure to set a troop-withdrawal goal or deadline would send "exactly the wrong message to the leaders of Iraq, that somehow or other, we're not going to put pressure on them to do what they promised to do."
Sen. Levin was referring to the failure of Iraq's political leadership to accomplish their own announced milestones for reconciliation actions.
But Sen. Graham, in a telephone news conference with South Carolina media on Monday, said his meetings with Iraqi politicians and his discussions with Gen. Petraeus convinced him that a withdrawal schedule would have the effect of reducing the willingness of Iraqi politicians to risk reconciliation among their factions because it would threaten their security.
Agreeing with Democratic critics of the war that Iraq's leaders must move promptly toward reconciliation, Sen. Graham said he would be ready to consider new financial conditions for Iraq if concrete political progress is not achieved by early next year.
But failing to fund the war, he added, is the height of irresponsibility. He's right. Congress must fund the troops without conditions, and find other ways to express its dissatisfaction with Iraq's politicians.
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Support the Troops
Dump the Democrats <== in coward yellow
We cannot impose timelines on Gen. Petraeus, or any other ground commanders..the surge is working..maybe an all in out victory before the 2008 elections!?!?
Hopefully optimistic.
This is the same way the rats lost/gave up in Viet Nam.
Precisely!!
Rules of engagement killed us in Vietnam..a totally different war in Iraq, though..we’ll win..and the rats will suffer for it!! :)
Hopefully optimistic, again!!
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48244
“Gates Asks Congress Not to Derail Iraq Progress”
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 2007 – Important progress the military is making in the war on terror would be derailed if Congress doesn’t pass a supplemental war spending bill “in short order,” Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told the Killeen, Texas, Chamber of Commerce yesterday.”
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Article III: Section 3: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.”
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=1385608
“Should Democrats Form a ‘Benedict Arnold’ Caucus?”
By Joel Himelfarb
(November 26, 2007)
Never mind... out he goes... Witherspoon BUMP!
Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."
Perhaps we can hit up all the phony libs who want to pay more taxes. Let’s see how much money they donate.
Ka-ching.
Thought so.
We have millions of witnesses.
When is the trial??????
I suppose the bigger the lie the easier it is to get away with it. Or in this case the bigger the treason.
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