Comments on: 414 Members Of Congress Go On The Record About Escalation http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:25:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Lulu http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1484924 Lulu Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:01:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1484924 This president is out of touch with reality. We cannot afford to stay in Iraq. The Neo-Con philosophy of unilateral, preemptive war only builds anti-american sentiment. The Iraq war is a massive failure. This president is out of touch with reality. We cannot afford to stay in Iraq. The Neo-Con philosophy of unilateral, preemptive war only builds anti-american sentiment. The Iraq war is a massive failure.

]]> By: Irene Euchler http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1484323 Irene Euchler Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:19:25 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1484323 Rep. Mica from Florida is going to back the President and he says he trusts what the President is telling us. How can he when we have been lied to over and over again. Where are the WMD's? They will greet us with open arms, the war will pay for itself with oil revenues, we will leave as soon as Saddam is captured, why are we building 12 massive bases in Iraq, things will be better when they have their own government, the cost will only be $2 billion, schools are opening, electricity and water is available, there is no civil war, etc. Our occupation brought in the terrorists. Because of our occupation over 60% of Iraqis want Americans dead or out of their country. We are hated not only in Iraq but most nations in the world. We have lied to every world leader. This administration is not only the worst in history but scary. Rep. Mica from Florida is going to back the President and he says he trusts what the President is telling us. How can he when we have been lied to over and over again.

Where are the WMD’s? They will greet us with open arms, the war will pay for itself with oil revenues, we will leave as soon as Saddam is captured, why are we building 12 massive bases in Iraq, things will be better when they have their own government, the cost will only be $2 billion, schools are opening, electricity and water is available, there is no civil war, etc.

Our occupation brought in the terrorists. Because of our occupation over 60% of Iraqis want Americans dead or out of their country. We are hated not only in Iraq but most nations in the world. We have lied to every world leader. This administration is not only the worst in history but scary.

]]> By: High Plains Joker http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1481834 High Plains Joker Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:27:39 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1481834 To Tesax Young Republicans: Isn't one of the Ten Commandments that: Thou Shalt have no other gods before Me? See if you can rub the smirk off GWB's statue face. To Tesax Young Republicans:

Isn’t one of the Ten Commandments that: Thou Shalt have no other gods before Me?

See if you can rub the smirk off GWB’s statue face.

]]> By: Jay Randal http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1479773 Jay Randal Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:26:00 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1479773 michael > controlling the oil fields in Iraq means to REGULATE their output. Iraq's vastly untapped oil is like a bank savings account to the Oil Cartel Consortium. By regulating the oil in Iraq, the Cartel can control the price of gasoline at the pumps. The desire to control Iraq's oil is to assure long term profits for the Cartel. michael > controlling the oil fields in Iraq means to REGULATE their output. Iraq’s vastly untapped oil is like a bank savings account to the Oil Cartel Consortium. By regulating the oil in Iraq, the Cartel can control the price of gasoline at the pumps. The desire to control Iraq’s oil is to assure long term profits for the Cartel.

]]> By: truth http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1479734 truth Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:09:44 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1479734 My Congressman, Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, is against Bush's escalation plan for sure, but the link on your chart is to a speech by George McGovern, former Senator and Presidential candidate from South Dakota. My Congressman, Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, is against Bush’s escalation plan for sure, but the link on your chart is to a speech by George McGovern, former Senator and Presidential candidate from South Dakota.

]]> By: michael http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1479228 michael Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:12:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1479228 "michael > are you not aware that controlling the oil fields in Iraq is the driving force behind Bush refusing to pull the troops out?" Of course it is! I've been saying that ever since our invasion. But I'd really be curious to get your take and understanding on just what you mean by "controlling the oil fields"? “michael > are you not aware that controlling the oil fields in Iraq is the driving force behind Bush refusing to pull the troops out?”

Of course it is! I’ve been saying that ever since our invasion. But I’d really be curious to get your take and understanding on just what you mean by “controlling the oil fields”?

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1478708 big papa Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:38:04 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1478708 <em>I consider it a HUGE positive, considering how freaking red my state is, that these Republican loyalists won’t voice support for Heir Bush as they so openly have in the past. Good work TP and everyone who has pushed for this momentum! </em> Comment by unbelievable #30 <strong>I was relieved when I heard Olympia Snowe come forward to support the Hage-Biden non-binding resolution... ...also TP's list of the 414 shows even the inbred Alabama delegation somewhat waffling... ...I hate to get my hopes dashed though... ...I'm like Chuck D... ..."Can't Trust It"...</strong> I consider it a HUGE positive, considering how freaking red my state is, that these Republican loyalists won’t voice support for Heir Bush as they so openly have in the past.

Good work TP and everyone who has pushed for this momentum!

Comment by unbelievable #30

I was relieved when I heard Olympia Snowe come forward to support the Hage-Biden non-binding resolution…

…also TP’s list of the 414 shows even the inbred Alabama delegation somewhat waffling…

…I hate to get my hopes dashed though…

…I’m like Chuck D…

…”Can’t Trust It”…

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1478681 big papa Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:33:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1478681 Comment by Carl Gordon #28 <strong>funny... ...almost...</strong> Comment by Carl Gordon #28

funny…

…almost…

]]> By: unbelievable http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1477339 unbelievable Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:26:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1477339 I emailed my elected neocons last week to tell them to oppose the escalation. According to your list, one of my Senators won't comment and the other leans toward support. My Congressman's opinion is unknown. I consider it a HUGE positive, considering how freaking red my state is, that these Republican loyalists won't voice support for Heir Bush as they so openly have in the past. Good work TP and everyone who has pushed for this momentum! I emailed my elected neocons last week to tell them to oppose the escalation. According to your list, one of my Senators won’t comment and the other leans toward support. My Congressman’s opinion is unknown.

I consider it a HUGE positive, considering how freaking red my state is, that these Republican loyalists won’t voice support for Heir Bush as they so openly have in the past.

Good work TP and everyone who has pushed for this momentum!

]]> By: Jay Randal http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1477305 Jay Randal Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:19:35 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1477305 michael > are you not aware that controlling the oil fields in Iraq is the driving force behind Bush refusing to pull the troops out? The Iraq fiasco has always been about the OIL and every other reason just a cover! michael > are you not aware that controlling the oil fields in Iraq is the driving force behind Bush refusing to pull the troops out? The Iraq fiasco has always been about the OIL and every other reason just a cover!

]]> By: Carl Gordon http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1476840 Carl Gordon Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:25:04 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1476840 Now is not the time togive up and wave the wite flag! We need to suport everything bush wants wile we can still pull a victury out of this mess. If your not wiling to suport 110% than you should resine! All those cut and runers our big chickuns! We need to kill all those people now before they get us. Suport the war, suport bush, mcain in 08! Now is not the time togive up and wave the wite flag! We need to suport everything bush wants wile we can still pull a victury out of this mess. If your not wiling to suport 110% than you should resine! All those cut and runers our big chickuns! We need to kill all those people now before they get us. Suport the war, suport bush, mcain in 08!

]]> By: hellinabucket http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1476786 hellinabucket Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:15:01 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1476786 Cynicon Implant, in response to you post #23. Don't those who interject our forces into unclear situtations without understanding of the logistics and the politics of the region need to bear responsibility for the mess? Your mad because we wake up and find out what this administration has done using our name and we don't like it. We need to get an open and honest admission of how we have been missled. The impending doom from Iraq was never there. The ties to Al Qiada were made up. Mushroom cloud, yellow cake, Aluminum tubes. All trumped up by the same group that wants to send more US troops. For what? 10 years ago Clinton was blasted for being the world's policeman. If you even start that the world is different you better put down some examples and 9/11 is not the reason we are in Iraq. Those who started the mess need to bear the responsibility. Not the ones that want to stop it. Cynicon Implant, in response to you post #23. Don’t those who interject our forces into unclear situtations without understanding of the logistics and the politics of the region need to bear responsibility for the mess?

Your mad because we wake up and find out what this administration has done using our name and we don’t like it.

We need to get an open and honest admission of how we have been missled. The impending doom from Iraq was never there. The ties to Al Qiada were made up. Mushroom cloud, yellow cake, Aluminum tubes. All trumped up by the same group that wants to send more US troops.

For what? 10 years ago Clinton was blasted for being the world’s policeman. If you even start that the world is different you better put down some examples and 9/11 is not the reason we are in Iraq.

Those who started the mess need to bear the responsibility. Not the ones that want to stop it.

]]> By: I_am_mighty_aphrodite_and_a_zionist_fool http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1476630 I_am_mighty_aphrodite_and_a_zionist_fool Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:54:02 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1476630 <em>"Yawn! Do any of you progs have anything intelligent to say? First off I served my time in the US Navy. How many of you can say the same? Jay how about explaining your comment about our troops dying for oil? Although in a way I agree with you, but I’d like to get your take on this.Comment by michael — January 18, 2007 @ 2:25 pm"</em> ****Dear angel michael, I so agree! Then again, anything *intelligent* would surely be *lost* on us *cons*! I mean, if you really are an experienced soldier - why aren't you in Iraq when your country needs you the most? Instead of *armchair* quarterbacking like myself - a former *JAG* that would be useless in combat? But I agree, that it makes complete logical sense for you to expect these *libruls* to go fight in a war they disagree with, while we *cons* sit by and don't fight in it, while claiming we do agree with it! How dare they tell us to put our money where our mouth is, those *taxing* libruls! “Yawn! Do any of you progs have anything intelligent to say? First off I served my time in the US Navy. How many of you can say the same? Jay how about explaining your comment about our troops dying for oil? Although in a way I agree with you, but I’d like to get your take on this.Comment by michael — January 18, 2007 @ 2:25 pm”

****Dear angel michael, I so agree! Then again, anything *intelligent* would surely be *lost* on us *cons*! I mean, if you really are an experienced soldier – why aren’t you in Iraq when your country needs you the most? Instead of *armchair* quarterbacking like myself – a former *JAG* that would be useless in combat?

But I agree, that it makes complete logical sense for you to expect these *libruls* to go fight in a war they disagree with, while we *cons* sit by and don’t fight in it, while claiming we do agree with it! How dare they tell us to put our money where our mouth is, those *taxing* libruls!

]]> By: michael http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1476457 michael Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:25:37 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1476457 "michael > get your butt over to Iraq to fight in the war or shut-up! Real American patriots want the troops to come home alive and not die for oil!" Yawn! Do any of you progs have anything intelligent to say? First off I served my time in the US Navy. How many of you can say the same? Jay how about explaining your comment about our troops dying for oil? Although in a way I agree with you, but I'd like to get your take on this. “michael > get your butt over to Iraq to fight in the war or shut-up! Real American patriots want the troops to come home alive and not die for oil!”

Yawn! Do any of you progs have anything intelligent to say? First off I served my time in the US Navy. How many of you can say the same? Jay how about explaining your comment about our troops dying for oil? Although in a way I agree with you, but I’d like to get your take on this.

]]> By: big papa http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1476431 big papa Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:20:58 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1476431 Comment by Cynicon Implant #15 <strong><em>...you've obviously "lost" any semblance of intelligent, coherent thought... ...long ago...</em></strong> Comment by Cynicon Implant #15

…you’ve obviously “lost” any semblance of intelligent, coherent thought…

…long ago…

]]> By: Cynicon Implant http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1476421 Cynicon Implant Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:19:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1476421 The result of us pulling out of the Vietnam War was millions of deaths in both Vietnam and Cambodia. The left in this country that pressured the Govt. to withdraw bear some responsibility for those deaths. And they will bear responsiblity for the large number of deaths that occur if we withdraw prematurely from Iraq. Is everyone here who is advocating immediate withdrawal ready to have Iraqi blood on their hands? The result of us pulling out of the Vietnam War was millions of deaths in both Vietnam and Cambodia.

The left in this country that pressured the Govt. to withdraw bear some responsibility for those deaths. And they will bear responsiblity for the large number of deaths that occur if we withdraw prematurely from Iraq.

Is everyone here who is advocating immediate withdrawal ready to have Iraqi blood on their hands?

]]> By: i_eat_boogers http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1476392 i_eat_boogers Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:15:03 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1476392 Yo Mikey, the white flag isn't necessary when exiting a country which we invaded! You move in, kill, then leave. That's not surrender, it's called SUCCESS. Yo Mikey, the white flag isn’t necessary when exiting a country which we invaded!

You move in, kill, then leave.

That’s not surrender, it’s called SUCCESS.

]]> By: Mountebank http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1476381 Mountebank Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:14:08 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1476381 I phone Rep. X. Becerra's office (D-CA) and was told that the congressman adamently opposes escalation. He has in fact signed on the to the Murtha bill for re-deployment. Ed I phone Rep. X. Becerra’s office (D-CA) and was told that the congressman adamently opposes escalation. He has in fact signed on the to the Murtha bill for re-deployment.

Ed

]]> By: Jay Randal http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1476331 Jay Randal Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:04:44 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1476331 michael > get your butt over to Iraq to fight in the war or shut-up! Real American patriots want the troops to come home alive and not die for oil! michael > get your butt over to Iraq to fight in the war or shut-up! Real American patriots want the troops to come home alive and not die for oil!

]]> By: I_am_mighty_aphrodite_and_a_zionist_fool http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-1476316 I_am_mighty_aphrodite_and_a_zionist_fool Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:03:03 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/18/escalation-congress/#comment-1476316 <em>"Yes Jay, get that white flag out of your closet. You probably need to dust it off as you probably haven’t had to use it since 1975! Comment by michael — January 18, 2007 @ 2:00 pm"</em> ****Dear angel michael, you know we *cons* never fly that flag! We just poke holes for our eyes and wear it as a pointy hat! I saw you at the *meeting* last week - that white pointy hat looked great on you! “Yes Jay, get that white flag out of your closet. You probably need to dust it off as you probably haven’t had to use it since 1975! Comment by michael — January 18, 2007 @ 2:00 pm”

****Dear angel michael, you know we *cons* never fly that flag! We just poke holes for our eyes and wear it as a pointy hat! I saw you at the *meeting* last week – that white pointy hat looked great on you!

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