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Navy wife
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 Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:38 am Post subject: Online pledge re Warner resolution and troop surge |
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I have not seen this topic on the forum yet, but over 30,000 people have signed an online pledge at http://truthlaidbear.com/thenrscpledge/index.php and I urge you all to go to the site and join the growing numbers who have signed!
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If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution. |
They also encourage people to contact their Senators and ask them to re-think their positions on this resolution. I am so tired of our elected officials having no backbone and the courage to say, "Let's do all we can in order that we win the war with the insurgents!" |
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Stevie
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
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Location: Queen Creek, Arizona
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:34 am Post subject: |
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sure thing! I'll do that...I'd already told myself 'we' (me & self) weren't gonna vote for anyone who agreed with that resolution...
nor will 'we' vote for anyone who votes for the senate/Bush immigration
bill !
'we' have our priorities straight!
and I (the 'I' part of 'we') have already sent an email to president Bush
telling him exactly what 'we' think of his immigration amnesty bill !
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dusty
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| Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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Signed.
Dusty
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Me#1You#10
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Just for the record, I'd like to see Fred Thompson toss his hat in the ring as well...
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Won't the Senate resolution diminish our chances for success in Iraq?
By Fred Thompson
January 19, 2007
Editor's note: Click here to listen to the original radio commentary.
Preparation continues in the House and Senate for the introduction of a nonbinding resolution disapproving of the president’s plan to send additional troops to Iraq in order to quell the violence there. The resolution will have no legal affect. A congressional vote to cut off funding could stop the troops or could stop the war altogether but the critics of the plan don’t have the stomach for that. It might be politically dangerous. One sponsor of the Senate resolution said that the goal is to demonstrate that the president is “on his own.”
Last week I said that it seemed to me that we ought to support the plan for the additional troops (which, incidentally, would bring the troops up to a number that is still less than the number of troops we have had there in the past) because the consequences of an American defeat in Iraq are so great. Understandably people have strong feelings on both sides of this debate. I read this week in The Economist magazine, which openly dislikes President Bush, that they agree with the president’s plan as our last best chance to prevail there. But I can see the arguments for the other side. I can even understand a vote to cut off funds for the war effort if one believes that we have clearly already lost the war and is prepared to accept the consequences of that loss. What I can’t see is this nonbinding resolution of opposition. Is it really in our country’s best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out a little longer because congressional determination to defeat them is crumbling? Doesn’t such a resolution further diminish our chances for success at the very time our soldiers are preparing to go into battle? And finally, regardless of our politics is this the time to announce to the world that our president is “on his own”?
— Fred Thompson is an actor and former United States senator from Tennessee.
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USAFE5
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Location: Reno Nevada
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That would be a good ticket too - Newt & Fred
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