Snowe to sponsor Iraq bill.
By on Apr 20th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Snowe to sponsor Iraq bill.
More cracks in the conservative movement. “In another sign of Republican unease with the president’s Iraq policies, a third GOP senator expressed support Thursday for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq under certain conditions. Sen. Olympia J. Snowe announced she would sponsor a bill to require American commanders to plan a withdrawal within 120 days of the bill’s enactment, unless the Iraqi government meets a series of benchmarks.”
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C’mon, Senator Snowe; benchmarks are accompanied by accountability, and we sure can’t have the Bushlickers held to any clear standards, can we?
April 20th, 2007 at 10:13 am/sarcasm off
oh please everyone knows that Olympia Snowe is a RINO, thinkprogress.org you are only fooling the poorly informed liberals.
this is like saying that Democrats are showing a crack by Liberman not supporting the Democrats.
please…..thinkprogress.org doesn’t respect its readers, but who would they are a bunch f hateful, lying, uneducated liberals.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:37 amj.j.,
The stink you leave smells way up here to post #1.
Post your crap at RedState, they’re used to your drivel.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:42 amj.j. sez:
Lieberman’s an Independent, genius. Who’s uneducated?
April 20th, 2007 at 10:44 amTripMaster,
Liberman just became and Independent, you fool, before that what was he? tick, tock, tick, tock….and he disagreed with your party line when it came to Iraq. duh, duh, duh…..
April 20th, 2007 at 10:52 amIs this unstable-sounding poster j.j. nully? Leiberman is a closet neocon of course.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:00 amshow down is coming for aWol. He is going to have to face up to his miserable failure in Iraq.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:02 amWhether Snowe is a RINO or not, this is good news. Once Bush vetos this bill, the Senate will be where the next battle is fought.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:02 amj.j. sez:
He was a Democrat…until he lost the primary to Lamont.
Think about that for a second. The majority of Democrats in CT preferred Lamont over Lieberman…yet Lieberman subsequently ran successfully as an Independent. If the Dems didn’t vote for him, who do you think did? The Republican Party threw their support (unofficially) behind Lieberman, while hapless official candidate Alan Schlesinger was left to twist in the wind.
Meanwhile, what’s the letter that comes after Olympia Snowe’s name again? (tick, tock, tick, tock)
This is why Olympia Snowe’s opposition to the Iraq Occupation can be considered a ‘crack in the conservative movement’, while it would be incorrect to consider Joe Lieberman’s support of the Iraq Occupation as a ‘crack in the liberal movement’. Snowe is still a member of the Republican party, while Lieberman is no longer a member of the Democratic Party.
I sincerely hope you understand your error by now, as I have neither the time nor the inclination to make it any clearer to you.
Try not to get drool on your keyboard, dolt.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:04 amPoison pill.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:07 amYeah you liberasl are dumb. You didnt go to college and stuff like me. You people are so full of hate. I don’t know why anyone can say republicans are full of hate. What we did to Clinton was not blind hate, because he really did rape that woman and run drugs and and kill vince foster and he certainly deserved to be impeached because lying about ANYTHING under oath, no matter how trivial, is absolutely much more terrible than lying when your not under oath. Sometimes presidents need to lie if they have a good reason to go to war that isnt really marketable. Its hard to tell the people the real reasons for a war when alot of the people who work for you shook hands and sold weapons to the guy your going to war with.
It doesnt matter what its about, lying under oath is terrible but saying “I don’t remember†under oath 45 times in one day is ok.
Also, its not really that hateful to attack veteran’s war record with unsubstantiated allegations and mock their service with purple heart band aids. Its also not hateful to make up rumours about veterans you are running against. Oh, and trying to generate anger and make laws against people of different sexual orientations just to get votes, that not hateful at all either. Oh… and its also ok to make fun of cripples with Parkinsons disease, if you think they are just pretending. Doing these things isnt hateful.. you people are hateful against bush just because he starts wars and kills people. Saddam was a bad guy. Except when he was our friend. But that was in the past, and 9-11 changed everything. Three thousand people died, so its ok to kill hundreds of thousands of people to get to Saddam. They are just collateral damage. But we didnt kill them out of hate. So its ok. Because now there is democracy is Iraq. And if those people democratically choose to transform Iraq into an Islamic Theocracy, thats ok. Because Saddam is the worst thing in the world that could ever happen. Nothing is worse than Saddam. If Iraq wants to be just like Iran thats ok, it doesnt matter how many of our soldiers die or how much money we spend, as long as Iraqis can choose thier government, thats whats important. Because democracy is always good. Well.. except for Palestine.. and Iran…and Venezula… well.,. ok.. democracy in those countries maybe isnt so good.. but its not TRUE democracy.. its only TRUE democracy if they choose to like america. So im sure theres no way that democracy in iraq coudl turn out bad. Palestine electing Hamas was just a fluke. Iraq is totally different. Really it is. You guys are so full of hate for thinking that we give Iraqis freedom and anything bad could come of freedom. More American soliders should die so that Iraqis can have the right to be just like Iran..
April 20th, 2007 at 11:12 ampats jake on the head.. there there.. it will be ok.. have some milk j.ja.a.k.e
April 20th, 2007 at 11:14 amComment by j.j. — April 20, 2007 @ 11:12 am
While I’m sure it’s tempting, please don’t namejack other posters. j.j. has enough difficulty without adding namejackers to his woes.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:20 amI can’t wait for the update that says Olympia Snowe visited Bush and ‘changed her mind’ on supporting a timetable.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:24 amGood for Snowe and she needs to call for Bush & Cheney to resign too.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:38 amI guess the Republican forget that they are in the Minority . Our Senator Feingold is putting out a bill that the troops have to come home in 120 days after the bill is enacted.
SNOWE IS A FLIP FLOPER.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:43 amjj: “this is like saying that Democrats are showing a crack by Liberman not supporting the Democrats.”
Right. Isn’t that what people like you said?
April 20th, 2007 at 11:55 amTripMaster,
yes he lost the primaries to super, duper, filthy rich Lamont because you Democrats are an embarrasment to the party Jefferson started, to the party FDR, JFK, Harry Truman belonged to.
do you little ones not realize that if FDR, JFK, Bobby Kennedy, Harry Truman were around today you would consider them neocons? I know the uneducated liberals will deny this, but it is the truth!
regardless TripMaster, Liberman won the full election, so who the hell cares he lost the primaries, he came back and spanked the sh….t out of your party.
Furthemore, RINOs like Olympia Snowe are known to be bigger Democrats than they are Republicans. Once again, this is a fake story from a laughable place called thinkprogress.org. It should be really called, can’tthinkatall.org.
thinkprogress.org laughs all the way to the bank knowing that they lie to you little ones all the time. They know you guuys are dumb, uneducated and easily fooled. there is a reason why Lenin called his left wing follower useful idiots. I am sure that thinkprogress.org call each and everyone of you useful idiots.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:03 pmTripMaster,
slow boy, uneducated fool, Olympia Snowe is NOT a Conservative Republican……just because you are a Republican it doesn’t mean you are a Conservative and just because you are a Democrat it doesn’t mean you are a Liberal.
c’mon don’t be so slow, why do you libeals always want free education, why?
April 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm#18 jj
Why don’t you go on the Republican blog? We do not need your insults.
Don’t talk down to us. You are the one that is uneducated.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:12 pmComment by j.j. — April 20, 2007 @ 12:09 pm
WOW, you’re stupid. I can’t believe I actually wasted my time attempting to educate you.
I won’t make that mistake a second time.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:27 pmEveryone needs to understand the psychology of the Neo-Con. This order through chaos approach to government is well documented and is a stated goal of the Straussian-neo-cons.
Their stated goal is to corporatize the military and it be funded by you and I. Research Backwater people.
The goal is to over-extend the militaries resources so that private contractors can be used to fill in the gaps abroad and at home.
Here are some good starting points.
Inception:
http://iraqforsale.org/ diaries/ 2006/ 08/ blackwater_runs_red.php
Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005A.shtml
Blood Is Thicker Than Blackwater
April 20th, 2007 at 12:27 pmhttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20060508/scahill…….
Joke Joke says;
Yeah you liberasl are dumb. You didnt go to college and stuff like me.
Case closed.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:35 pmI need to find a “I [heart] abritrary deadlines” bumper sticker…
April 20th, 2007 at 1:49 pm