“The family actually walked me to the coffin
“The family actually walked me to the coffin
and my knees buckled. Why? … I saw a soldier about 20 years old…and he looked just like me.” Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) — a decorated Army combat veteran — speaks out against escalation:
This great country and this great constitution has given you the right, right in your hand, to determine who lives and who dies. You can’t make a mistake in supporting this resolution. It’s not going to hurt our beloved warriors. It is going to help our country. It is going to help them and it is going make us proud one day to be able to say when asked, what did you do when this was going on in the world and your Congress was asked, and you would be able to say, there was a resolution — it may not have been a profile in courage — but I supported it and I’m proud that I did.
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Now lets support impeachment,
February 15th, 2007 at 1:15 amI can feed a starving child for 10c a day, but I can’t get Republicans to stop killing people.
February 15th, 2007 at 1:42 amNow lets support impeachment,
Comment by Left Coast Mike
I agree
Powell tried to push Iran talks in 2003 and was rebuffed, former official says. Former Bush National Security Council official also says Rice likely lied about not seeing document.
February 15th, 2007 at 2:12 amOff topic but important:
Action: Congress wants to monitor all emails, IMs, etc.
The Seminal | February 13, 2007
A bill introduced last week by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) is beginning to raise eyebrows.
[It] would require ISPs to record all users’ surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely . The bill, dubbed the Safety Act by sponsor Lamar Smith, a republican congressman from Texas, would impose fines and a prison term of one year on ISPs which failed to keep full records.
This is a terrifying development and it must be stopped before it gains any significant momentum. Background, Action items and contact information below the fold.
Under the guise of reducing child pornography, the SAFETY (Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today’s Youth) Act is currently the gravest threat to digital privacy rights on the Internet. Given the increasing tendency of people, especially young people, to use the Internet as a primary means of communication, this measure would affect nearly all Americans in ways we are only beginning to understand. Also, given the fact that the Act requires all Internet Service Providers to record the web surfing activity of all Internet users, this amounts to the warrantless wiretapping of the entire Internet.
Appears the PedoCons want all the porn for themselves.
February 15th, 2007 at 2:29 amRep. Charlie Rangel is one of the good guys in the Congress.
February 15th, 2007 at 3:38 amcheck out the phrase between the dashes…
they denied they were planning a war in iraq and then turned around and supported it with false evidence… now, the exact same scenario is playing out, and we are supposed to pretend the previous one didn’t happen…?
And, yes, I DO take it personally
February 15th, 2007 at 6:47 amBut rangel’s service doesn’t count cuz he’s a dem.
February 15th, 2007 at 8:56 am“The family actually walked me to the coffin and my knees buckled. Why? … I saw a soldier about 20 years old…and he looked just like me.†Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY)
George W. Bush will never know or understand that feeling.
February 15th, 2007 at 9:43 amDuring the period of 1967 to 1971 I was in the Air Force at Pope AFB in NC.
One of the duties that I had was with the honor guard. Our job simply was to provide the members of the military for burials of Air Force personnel.
Between that duty and being on the air force base that served Ft. Bragg (82nd Airborne and the Green Berets), I saw a LOT of people who’s lives were ruined because of war.
I have been against this war from the beginning as I never saw any true justification for it.
I wish President Bush would be REQUIRED to attend services for every soldier KIA. Perhaps that would give him a better understanding of what war is really about. Of course from a nice place like the White House, you get a little insulated.
February 15th, 2007 at 9:52 amThanks, Zooey
February 15th, 2007 at 9:56 amI was wondering the same…
How many times has Bizarro Bush walked that path with a fallen soldier’s family?
Zero?
How many times has Bizarro Bush awoke during the night with a military man knocking on the door to deliver the news your son or daughter was killed refereeing a civil war?
Zero?
How many times has he even attended a funeral?
Zero?
I guess the fact the media is prohibited from even showing pictures of the coffins pretty much tells the story of compassionate conservatism.
Investigate. Impeach. Incarcerate.
What’s REALLY needed is a resolution that demands the appropriations for Iraq in this year’s budget be in REAL dollars, not deffered money. Make Bush make the necessary budget cuts to fund his un-necessary war in REAL time, not our grandchildren’s. The effects would be immediate. Bush’s entire budget would have to be re-written. The Dem’s could hold budget hearings in which they would debate lopping off huge chunks of revenue and cutting vital services, all to pour into the sinkhole that is Iraq. Once our enlightened citezenry understands the sacrifices that would have to be made just to sustain war spending for 6 months, the biggest shit-storm this country has ever seen would ensue.
February 15th, 2007 at 9:56 amYes, Charlie Rangle IS one of the good guys in Congress.
February 15th, 2007 at 9:57 amAnyone who saw that disgraceful and pathetic public display by GWB yesterday knows that we must rid ourselves of Bush&Co.
February 15th, 2007 at 10:00 am#8
February 15th, 2007 at 10:18 amZooey, I was just thinking that.
If this were a true leader, he would do exactly that.
A true leader understands his actions, gets to know the people he sends into battle, and mourns when they mourn.
A true leader shows compassion, and empathy.
Alas, we have no true leader, just a flippin’ puppet, void of emotions (deer in headlights, anyone?)
What’s REALLY needed is a resolution that demands the appropriations for Iraq in this year’s budget be in REAL dollars, not deffered money. Comment by leo
Absolutely. All the Republicans who continue to support this occupation should be forced to a position where they have to seek significant cuts in services to the American people and/or raise taxes to pay for the occupation now. And, the cost of rehabilitation of injured troops and death benefits for the families of those killed should be included. The occupation should have its own detailed budget and be “pay-as-you-stay”.
February 15th, 2007 at 10:32 amppl still for some reason call this fiasco in iraq a mistake…no u see a mistake is
when ur child spills there milk at supper
a mistake is chattin with hot chick 22 and ur really talkin with fat bald guy with hairy ass 62
a mistake is payin to much for ur auto insurence
this want a mistake it waz cold and caculated from day 1
the mistake waz (electin) dick cheney oh I mean george bush as prez
February 15th, 2007 at 11:23 amComment by cwazycajun — February 15, 2007 @ 11:23 am
February 15th, 2007 at 12:03 pmWell said!
#18 since dem soldier hasnt shown up yet i’ll say it for him
“why do the republicans hate america?”
February 15th, 2007 at 1:15 pmSorry Mr. Rangle you could not be farther off line. Unless you are talking about the line you are required to toe in hoping that you can gain back the white house. Let us ask the military man and woman over there what they think of you and your comrades throwing them under the bus.
The things you do and say undermine the military personnel trying to achieve a goal. That’s what the military has been about for the past forty years I have been involved. I don’t like some of the mistakes and errors in judgement made over the past four years but still we have to do what we have to do.
Do you sincerely believe that we were safer on 9/12 than we are today. If so I want some of what you’re smoking. I felt the President did what he needed to do. He is doing what he needs to do. You are one of those guys that has never played football that sits on his fat butt in the stands and boos the coach because he is punting on fourth and three. Booing is your option but leadership is not your responsibility. Now you want us to punt on second down. So get off your fat ass, stand up and tell the young Americans, who realize how important what they are doing is, that you are behind the all the way to the goal line. Or sit oin your fat ass and boo. Remember though you are not the coach and never will be the coach.
February 15th, 2007 at 4:27 pmYOU ROCK, Charlie Rangel!!!!! GIVE ‘EM HELL!!!!!
February 15th, 2007 at 8:15 pm