So the constipated Senate was stopped up yet again with a Republican filibuster of Senator Jim Webb’s legislation. You’d think just good ol’ fashion shame would eventually break through the “All for the Party” mentality of this crew, but apparently they don’t have any shame. I dare any one of them to tout his/her support for the troops during the upcoming campaign season and challenge the MSM to point out their hypocrisy when they do.

We need a filibuster thermometer to track the number of bills prevented from ever reaching our elected officials by this bunch.

That’s right, and I’d like to point out that a number of the people who were executed after the Nuremberg Trials were convicted of fighting an “illegal war of aggression.”

Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Voinovich (R-OH)

Not Voting – 3

Brownback (R-KS)
Johnson (D-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)

DanCaveman

Comment by Lano — July 11, 2007 @ 2:36 pm

I appreciate it, but no thanks is necessary. I was (and am willing) to die for the ideals that this country once embodied.

I went to Iraq try and help provide security while the US rebuilt the infrastructure we broke.

We provided security, but the reconstruction never came!

The power plant in the area I was in, is still non-operational. Instead of sinking money into Iraqi companies to give them jobs, we give it to Haliburton for meals and water they don’t supply.

For every friend we make we make six (or more) enemies. They learn from our tactics and get more deadly every day.

We never lose a battle, but can’t win the war because we are undermined by our own Commander In Chief.

I am out now and trying to do my part as a citizen and set our government on the right track to be a leader – NOT an aggressor, but my pleas fall on deaf ears.

I don’t recognize the country that I LOVE

I am losing hope! Whether the trolls are being sarcastic or just having a laugh at the expense of the lives of our service members, it is disgusting!

If we could ignore them they would go away, but how long have you heard that?

I have been hearing “ignore the trolls and they will go away” for as long as Think Progress has been on the Internet. We have even all tried it for a couple of weeks and it didn’t do anything. They were still here, but nobody had straightened out the lies, so there the lies sit for the lurkers to read without the lies being debunked.

Late getting back to this thread, but you are right about the trolls posting under different names, and enjoying the closed little circle jerk loop they create. I think there are about 3 of them though.

If we could ignore them they would go away, but how long have you heard that? Someone (myself included) gets too pissed to hold back and engages the braindeads.

I will try harder.

For Katie. She has been begging all week.

ROFL… Oh, I so want you to run on that platform: “70% of you are not intelligent; the rest of you should vote Republican!”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/04/AR2007050402151.html?hpid=topnews

“The authors of the Army document argued that the strains placed on troops in Iraq are in some ways more severe than those borne by the combat forces of World War II. ‘A considerable number of Soldiers and Marines are conducting combat operations everyday of the week, 10-12 hours per day seven days a week for months on end,’ wrote Col. Carl Castro and Maj. Dennis McGurk, both psychologists. ‘At no time in our military history have Soldiers or Marines been required to serve on the front line in any war for a period of 6-7 months.’

“And although U.S. casualties in Iraq are far lower than in the Vietnam War, for example, military experts say that Iraq can be a more stressful environment. In Vietnam, there were rear areas that were considered safe, but in Iraq there are no truly secure areas outside big bases. ‘The front in Iraq is any place not on a base camp’ or a forward operating base, the report noted.

“The authors recommended that soldiers be given breathers during combat tours and intervals of 18 to 36 months between such tours, substantially longer than they are allowed now.”

Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

Ah yes, good old Lionel. Did he ever have to pay for that vending machine? And how is Bat Guano doing? Did he ever go above Sgt?

As lons as serious discussion is going on, I try to contribute to the topic. Works quite well normally, I was hit with some very nasty comments lately, though and that took the fun out of troll-bashing.

Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper

But Whack-A-Troll is such good, wholesome fun, and a complete workout! The whole family can play!

BTW Col, speak w/ Mandrake recently?