Posted on 10/15/2007 6:13:14 AM PDT by vietvet67
Congressional Democrats anxious to force a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq are frustrated by their inability to muster a veto-proof majority for legislation that would establish a firm date for retreat. But what they cannot do directly they are now working hard to do indirectly.
According to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey is the transshipment point for about 70% of all air cargo (including 33% of the fuel) going to supply US forces in Iraq. Included are about 95% of the new “MRAP” -- mine-resistant, ambush-protected -- vehicles designed to save the lives of American troops. Turkey wasn’t always this helpful. In 2003, the Turks refuse permission for the 4th Infantry Division to enter Iraq through Turkey.
Turkey’s Erdogan government has indicated that if the House of Representatives takes action on a non-binding resolution being pushed by Speaker Pelosi, Turkey might revoke our ability to use Incirlik as a waypoint for Iraq supplies.
At issue is the non-binding resolution passed on October 10 by the House Foreign Affairs Committee that labels the 1915-1923 massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire a genocide. Such resolutions can be passed by either or both houses of Congress and are not subject to presidential veto.
On October 11, Pelosi said, “While that may have been a long time ago, genocide is taking place now in Darfur, it did within recent memory in Rwanda, so as long as there is genocide there is need to speak out against it.”
But the resolution is gratuitous and Democrats’ timing suspicious. It’s gratuitous because, in 1981, President Reagan referred to the Armenian massacre as genocide in a proclamation commemorating the Nazi Holocaust.
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A blatant and purposeful effort to harm our military.
We have a name for that: treason.
“Turkey’s Erdogan government has indicated that if the House of Representatives takes action on a non-binding resolution being pushed by Speaker Pelosi, Turkey might revoke our ability to use Incirlik as a waypoint for Iraq supplies.”
My suggestion is that Bush should enter an executive order declaring the resolution a nullity. Afterall, this resolution intrudes on the power of the Presidency. The President is the Head of State, not the Speaker of the House. She’s just abusing her power.
FNC just reported a major Turkish troop buildup along the Iraqi border, while the Turkish parliament is getting ready to vote to authorize cross-border incursions....
Pelosi’s self-absorbed political posturing has done some real damage to our ability to influence events in that part of the world...
Shame!!
“We have a name for that: treason”
History will not look back kindly on us, I fear.
Do I question the patriotism of the Democratic Party and their moonbat voters? You bet. This Turkish ploy is treason, nothing more and nothing less!
That word has been expunged from the lexicon.
The new word is, "politics".
“Do I question the patriotism of the Democratic Party and their moonbat voters? You bet. This Turkish ploy is treason, nothing more and nothing less!”
And you know the next step...to demonize us, the Republican blogosphere for mean-spirited attacks on Pelosi.
The words “espionage” and “conspiracy” haven’t.
Ha ha! good one! That’s one for the album.
Speaker Pelosi is on record, I think it was on a Fox News Sunday interview, saying that it is harder for a woman to become Speaker of the House than it is to become President of the US. If a Republican, say Newt Gingrich, just for example, had made such a ridiculous statement it would be the topic of every comedian’s monologue, and every partisan commentator’s articles and patter.
Since Lady Pelosi made the gaffe, the record of it is totally ignored.
TRAITOR.....when is someone, ANYONE going to stand up and call these people what they are? Any GOP nominees going to take a stand?
she’s a silly, desperate, little woman wanting power when she grows up. She’s alreayd OLD.
From the October 7 show:
WALLACE: As to the presidential race, I know that you have decided to stay neutral until you get a nominee.
PELOSI: Yes.
WALLACE: But can you honestly say as the first woman speaker in our country you have never thought about the possibility of introducing the first woman president to deliver the state of the union?
PELOSI: Of course not. Of course I think about it. I think it would be very, very exciting. Similarly for the first African American president or the first Hispanic president. But no, it would be pretty exciting for us to have the first woman president of the United States.
WALLACE: And what message do you think that would send, a woman president addressing the nation with a woman speaker behind her?
PELOSI: I can only tell you the message that my own achieving the office of speaker has sent. I’m deluged with communications from all over the country. And when I travel, people are so excited that there is a woman speaker, that we’ve broken the marble ceiling, and they’re excited for what it means for young girls.
Fathers of daughters particularly have been enthusiastic about what it means for their children, for their daughters, that anything is possible. This is a men’s club here. It has been. And I sometimes think it’s harder to become speaker of the House than president of the United States for a woman.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299943,00.html
Turkey is no reliable friend to the US. When we needed their help, they opted to go Islamic and supported Saddam. And that cost us the ability to have a viable northern front during the offensive.
For what, exactly, did we give them aid and support for 50 years?
OTOH, we have an alternative in Israel, through which we can transship everything better than through Turkey.
The same Democrats who endlessly criticized our DOD and military planning for not having the up-armored Humvees in theatre, are now putting their big fat “non-binding” resolution in the way of getting the newer MRAPs to the troops in theatre.
Can we at least say HYPOCRISY, if not TREASON.
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