Posted on 01/10/2007 5:13:29 PM PST by IrishMike
(AP) The first Muslim member of Congress says the solution to Iraq lies in an immediate withdrawal of military forces and focusing instead on political and diplomatic efforts.
"We could describe it as a redeployment or withdrawal, but I think we have run the course in terms of our ability to resolve this conflict militarily," said Rep. Keith Ellison, a freshman Minnesota Democrat.
"I think we need to have a political and economic and diplomatic engagement, and we need to encourage the forces that are in Iraq to begin to resolve the violence in Iraq," Ellison said Tuesday during an interview with The Associated Press.
Ellison argued that President Bush's expected plan to send 20,000 more troops to Iraq is "way too late, way too little" to make a difference.
"So rather than do something small and ineffective, why not get about the business of what we're going to have to do eventually, which is to begin to end the occupation?" he said.
Bush is expected to ask Congress for $100 billion in additional funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"I want to see (the request) first, I want to actually look at it, but I'm not inclined to continue to support a war or an occupation that he has no plans to get us out of, and which is so costly in terms of dollars and lives of American soldiers _ but also Iraqis," Ellison said.
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What a S*** head.....idiot.....any more and I'll get banned.
Cause you're not the President, jackass!
(Correction...must show respect...Congressman Jackass)
So I guess this guy has never heard of a couple of little countries called Bosnia and Serbia and South Korean then?
When's this clown gonna offer up legislation to codify Islamic Law. He's off to a flying start. Wonder what the braniacs in Minnesota that elected him think of him now? Wait! I can already imagine.
Why anyone would listen to this pukehead is a mystery to me. I can just see us in WWII, taking military advice from a Nazi. Times sure have changed.
Translation. I don't care how many moderate Muslims get killed for helping us defeat Saddam.
I have power and will do anything to keep it!
Hardly breaking news.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765189/posts
And so it starts from the first Islamo congressman.
It will get worse.
By this logic we should never get involved in any war, since we're going to have to end it, anyway.
Or, for that matter, any social program.
Believe me, the braniacs in District 5 will never admit they made a mistake. They'd elect a serial rapist as long as they have DFL after their name.
"We were only freshmen". There ought to be a song...
"Asked for a response to Ellison's comments, the White House referred to Bush press secretary Tony Snow's remarks to reporters on Tuesday. Snow said that Democrats will have to decide where they stand on two issues: "No. 1, do you want Iraq to succeed, and, if so, what does that mean? And, No. 2, do you believe in supporting the troops as you say, and how do you express that support?""
Odds are the brainiacs in Minnesota are Islamites, too.
Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback opposes the Troop Surge too.
Why don't all the Democrats just say what they do want i.e.,
We would like Iraq to become a Terrorist haven. Split between Terror training camps in the Center, Shiite Iranian control of the South and East and Syrian Control of the West. We would like Terror groups to organize and attack us so that 50,000 American Citizens are dead here at home while are Military is handed over to the UN to use as they see fit.
Isn't that what they want?
"..Farrakhan and Nation of Islam ties
While a law student in 1989 and 1990, Ellison wrote several columns as Keith E. Hakim in the student newspaper, the Minnesota Daily. "The first article defended Louis Farrakhan against accusations of antisemitism "[61], defended Nation of Islam spokesman Khalid Abdul Muhammad, and spoke in the voice of a Nation of Islam advocate."[62]. The second column "called affirmative action a 'sneaky' form of compensation for slavery, suggesting instead that white Americans pay reparations to blacks,"[61]. The third suggested the creation of a separate state for black residents[63][64].
In 1995, Ellison, writing an editorial as Keith X. Ellison, stated that Farrakhan is not an anti-Semite[65][66]. The same year, Ellison was identified as a member of the Nation of Islam in the Star Tribune.[67].
In 1997, when Joanne Jackson, executive director of the Minneapolis Initiative Against Racism (MIAR), allegedly said that, "Jews are among the most racist white people", Ellison, using his religious name Mohammed, read a statement supporting her on behalf of the The Minneapolis-St. Paul Study Group of the Nations of Islam: "[We] stand by Ms. Jackson. We stand by the truth contained in the remarks attributed to her, and by her right to express her view without sanction. Here is why we support Ms. Jackson: She is correct about Minister Farrakhan. He is not a racist. He is also not an anti-Semite. This widespread and unfair practice of whites sanctioning blacks for not denouncing Minister Farrakhan represents a racist double standard, and is an impediment to any honest dialogue about race. If black people are to ever possess a collective sense of self-respect and self-determination, they must not genuflect whenever powerful whites make the unreasonable demand to denounce Minister Farrakhan. Minister Farrakhan said he did not like the tension between the black and Jewish communities, and that he was open to dialoge with any groups as long as they did not set any conditions."[68][69][62] Ellison later claimed "While some at that meeting justified her comments, I spoke out in favor of increased dialogue between the Jewish and African-American communities."[70][71]
In 1998, during his Minnesota State Legislature House campaign, as Keith Ellison-Muhammad he said he had an affiliation with the Nation of Islam, but "rejected anti-Jewish attitudes".[7.."
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