It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion...

Very impressive quote.  People are finally waking up all over.

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-

Signing off right now to call Murtha's DC office (202-225-2065) with a great big Thank you!

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it. -- Oscar Levant

I saw part of his 'speech" this morning. When he was talking about the wounded he has visited and how they are not getting the help they need, physicaly or emotionally I just felt so sad and elated at the same time. Someone is finally saying what needs to be said, 2070 dead and 20,000 wounded and scarred later. I will call his office too. May they all start lining up beside him....every last one, both sides of the aisle.

Frodo failed...Bush has got the ring.

Funny how the feminist perspective works isn't it?

I would have written this headline on this Murtha story as "Seismic" Shift by Infamous Anti-Choice Democrat.

And why would I say that about Representative Murtha?

Murtha has a 100% (anti-choice) rating by the Democrats for (fetal) Life. He has a 0% rating by NARAL.  :::warning, both are PDF links:::

George Bush is in bad shape though, isn't he?  This story proves it. Murtha has to reposition himself on the war to keep a future run at a leadership position open as a possibility, if Democrats regain a majority.  With Murtha in a leadership post we surely wouldn't have to worry about any pro-fetal-life legislation making it to the floor, would we?

Our Word
Binti Pamoja nobody takes care of them, they take care of each other

that this gets more play in the press than Bob Woodward's shenanigans and the Scooter Libby is a martyr nonsense.  Or are they going to put this guy in the "irresponsible" and "reprehensible" and not supporting our troops category?

This is the way to counter the GOP spin.  Keeping hammering the Truth home and eventually it's going to stick.

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So Slooooooooow

But better late than never.

No matter how many Congresscritters joined those wanting to end the nightmare, there were always others like Representative Mendell Rivers (ruled the House Armed Service Committe with an iron fist for many years) or Senator Strom Thurmond to insist that the war must continue to be fought whatever the ultimate price in lives, and denouncing anyone who thought otherwise as being insufficiently patriotic.  What is interesting here is that no one outside of BushCo. seems to have the stomach for that.  True, there are Concritters willing to pay lip service to keeping the war going, but there seem to be no true believers like Rivers and Thurmond.  Even Holy Joe Lieberman seems to understand that the tide has turned regarding the public's willingness to tolerate the continuing disaster.  

Intelligent Design is neither.

Well, damn. Murtha?

OK, game over.

Can't hear ya, Peach!

It's spelled d.e.f.e.a.t.  People are going to have to get used to it.

Knut

... if you get a chance to watch the Newshour do so. Murtha delivers straight talk from a military perspective and a veteran's perspective.

When asked by Margaret Warner if other Democrats might follow suit, (I'm paraphrasing) he says he hopes this is a watershed moment.

Like I said--game OVER. If HE can say enough, then so can everyone else. He's provided cover for those needing it, so just do it already.

Can't hear ya, Peach!

If I am reading this correctly, this is an open invitation for all Dems and moderate Republicans to jump off the sinking ship.  Those who will not can not say that nobody warned me that the ship was sinking!

We need to push for Progressive change, now more than ever.

Here is the Text (from the DCCC website of a Resolution:

Murtha Resolution To Redeploy U.S. Forces from Iraq:

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

November 17, 2005

MR. MURTHA introduced the following joint resolution, which was referred to the Committee on _______

Whereas Congress and the American People have not been shown clear, measurable progress toward establishment of stable and improving security in Iraq or of a stable and improving economy in Iraq, both of which are essential to "promote the emergence of a democratic government";

Whereas additional stabilization in Iraq by U, S. military forces cannot be achieved without the deployment of hundreds of thousands of additional U S. troops, which in turn cannot be achieved without a military draft;

Whereas more than $277 billion has been appropriated by the United States Congress to prosecute U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan;

Whereas, as of the drafting of this resolution, 2,079 U.S. troops have been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom;

Whereas U.S. forces have become the target of the insurgency,

Whereas, according to recent polls, over 80% of the Iraqi people want U.S. forces out of Iraq;

Whereas polls also indicate that 45% of the Iraqi people feel that the attacks on U.S. forces are justified;

Whereas, due to the foregoing, Congress finds it evident that continuing U.S. military action in Iraq is not in the best interests of the United States of America, the people of Iraq, or the Persian Gulf Region, which were cited in Public Law 107-243 as justification for undertaking such action;

Therefore be it

I) Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in

2. Congress assembled,

3. That:

4. Section 1. The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is

5. hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the earliest practicable

6. date.

7. Section 2. A quick-reaction U.S. force and an over-the-horizon presence of U.S Marines

8. shall be deployed in the region.

9. Section 3 The United States of America shall pursue security and stability in Iraq

10. through diplomacy.

 

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On the PBS NewsHour Just Went Ballistic On The bush Administration!!

Finally this fellow 'Nam Vet has Figured Out being a Hawk with alliances to NEO-CONs Is Extremely Wrong!!!!

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