Remember These Words As Our Troops Slowly Bleed
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— Rep. John Murtha
Remember Mr. Murtha says this approvingly. The Speaker of the House has embraced this idea. They will slowly bleed our troops to death. Mr. Murtha has just embraced doing to soldiers in Iraq what he experienced politicians doing to him in Vietnam.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I don't like it but its non-binding.I suspect by summer that we shall see a major clash over executive powers vs Congress.The Republicans dont have the votes in the House to stop this stuff.It does show that the so called democrat conservatives that were elected in November are really lberals.Maybe the voters will wake up and realize who they gave their votes to.The silver lining may be that conservatives will be galvanized and elect a new Republican Congress.
Murtha left Vietnam in the late 60s, and immediately started running for office as soon as he hit U. S. Soil.
(Actually, he probably started running after his Congressman didn't get him all the medals he wanted)
Murtha never had to deal with the policies of the Dems.
The reply to this strategy needs to be who is Congress to determine the mission readiness of troops over commanders? Every commander has to report the mission readiness of their unit through the Congressionally overseen SORTS process. If a commander believes their unit to be non-mission ready due to training or equipment they can put them in a status that makes them non deployable.
So is Congress now saying they're trumping the status provided by the commanders that train and equip their units? Nancy Pelosi and crew know better than commanders the mission readiness of these units? Is it the integrity or the competence of these commanders the Democrats are questioning?
Does stand for Status of Resources and Training System.
Last May, Leo Pusateri & I started a blog titled Murtha Must Go in the hopes of getting Diana Irey the funding & publicity she needed to defeat Murtha. Check Diana out because she's a great communicator, fiercely conservative & a nonstop ball of energy fighting for core conservative values.
Let's get behind her this time so she can mount a serious challenge to Jihad Johnny (Leo's first nickname for Murtha). It's long past time for him to retire.
PS- Here's the link to Rep. Sam Johnson's speech. Rep. Johnson takes Mr. Murtha to the proverbial woodshed. You don't want to miss this speech. It'll make you feel proud to be an American.
I remember that RS teamed with others to try & get Murtha fired by raising funds for Diana Irey. I didn't mean to sound like they did nothing because they tried hard to get Ms. Irey elected.
My first note should be taken as an exhortation to those who didn't contribute last time. Murtha is a monster who needs to be retired.
But we are suffering today.
I am impressed by how much envergy the dems put into losing this war.
I wonder what would happen if they put a small fraction of this energy into actually *winning* it?
You mean like they've suffered for pulling the funding for the South Vietnamese military and five million people died? Yeah, sure. They'll suffer. They'll revel in blaming the slaughter on Bush.
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Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged. — J. Michael Waller
1980, 1984, 1988. Vietnam wasn't the only or even the primary cause but it was part of the equation of why they lost their credibility on national defense.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
I probably could have beaten Jimmy in 1980, his defeat had nothing to do with the Vietnam aftermath. 1984 looked more like "are you better off now than you were four years ago?" Walter Mondale, a rerun of JC. 1988 was Michael Dukakis.
Reagan did campaign on rebuilding the military, but I don't recall the slaughter in SE Asia being a topic of discussion.
Note that the Democrats who ran Congress in the '70's, at least those who are still alive, are committee chairmen today. Congressional Dem's paid no price through the '80's, and they lost the House in '94 based on corruption and the Contract With America.
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Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged. — J. Michael Waller
Like this will be his next line:
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill