Friday Flashback
I love trips down memory lane…
The arrival of additional forces in Iraq comes a day after leading Democrats said they would back legislation that would block funding to pay for additional military forces.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who, Tuesday, urgently called for Congress to vote on - and reject - the proposed surge, told ABC News that the arrival of additional soldiers “underscores Sen. Kennedy’s point that Congress must act immediately.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-N.M., also responded to the report, calling the troops’ arrival “deeply disappointing.”
Reid has said that Americans don’t want to see additional forces in Iraq, and that he has been considering plans offered by his congressional colleagues.
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Rep. Jack Murtha (D) says that he has figured out a way to stop Bush’s so-called troop “surge” before it is completed
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Rep. Ike Skelton, the Missouri Democrat who will become chairman of the House Armed Services Committee next month, echoed those sentiments Tuesday. “I’m convinced the Army and the Marines are near the breaking point,” Skelton said, while expressing skepticism that a big troop surge would be worth the trouble.
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The new leaders of Congress on Friday urged President Bush not to pour more U.S. troops into the war in Iraq, calling the idea “a strategy that you have already tried and that has already failed.”
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Top US congressional Democrats bluntly told President George W. Bush Wednesday that his Iraq troop “surge” policy was a failure.
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi challenged the president over Iraq by sending him a letter, ahead of a White House meeting later on Wednesday.
“As many had forseen, the escalation has failed to produce the intended results,” the two leaders wrote.
The Democrats obviously have no credibility on Iraq, or really after the Cold War should have none on foreign policy at all as they were rooting and working for the other side, and therefore their thoughts on these matters should be dismissed.
— The Ace