Last night on MSNBC’s Hardball Rep. Jim Moran (D) from VA and Phil Gingrey (R) from Georgia were debating the Iraq War Policy. As would be expected, the debate became heated as Rep. Moran argued to pull our forces out of Iraq and Rep. Gingrey supported the Bush Iraq Policy. Rep. Gingrey said he wanted to remain in Iraq until we achieved VICTORY just like Bush wanted. The Moderator then asked Rep. Gingrey what he meant by “Victory in Iraq”? He said his definition was the same as Presid...
Last night CNN ran a story about the fact that since 2004 the Bush budget has CUT funding for border protection operations in Arizona by 60%. The story went on to say that the State of Arizona has requested the restoration of those cuts 30 times and the Bush Administration refused to restore the cuts. Arizona is where more drugs enter the U.S. then any other point along the Mexican/American Border. It is also an area were significant numbers of illegal alien’s come into the Un...
U.S. Intelligence has concluded that after 6 years of bombings and fighting in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda has reconstituted and is as strong and capable as before 9/11. While we tie the majority of our ground forces up in a Civil War in Iraq, the terrorist group RESPONSIBLE for 9/11 and all the other attacks against our country have been allowed to become a big a danger as it was before 9/11. Bush tells us how his Iraq War will prevent the enemy from bringing the attack to us while the gro...
The Iraq Government has not met a single benchmark to resolve the many issues essential to ending the violence in Iraq. It is now time to bring our troops home and allow the Iraqi people to deal with the future of Iraq. We can not continue to sacrifice our military for a country that refuses to do its part. This together with an increase in the violence can not be ignored. The time is up and Congress MUST force an end to our involvement in this misguided war! Official: Iraq Gov't Missed...
Yesterday there was a fourth assassination attempt on the leader of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf since he began supporting the United States in the fight against al Qaeda when antiaircraft fire was directed at his airplane as it took off from an airbase in Pakistan. There is a strong opposition within Pakistan for President Musharraf and his cooperation with the United States. Recent unrest developed when he removed the countries Chief Justice and this week there is the demonstration of ...
As George W. Bush moves closer to January 20, 2009, his attention and the attention of historians will focus on the legacy of Bush. For the most part that legacy has been set in stone and I can only see it becoming more negative depending on the Iraq War over the next 18 months. Conservatives will lament the huge increase in the size of government, the increased debt and the new entitlement from the Prescription Drug Plan that was not funded. They will not be happy with his Immigratio...
Bush has been saying that if we leave Iraq the Terrorists will follow. Guess what - That is taking place while we are in Iraq. The British have now linked the terrorist attacks last week in Scotland and the two unsuccessful attacks in London to operations in Iraq. Our occupation of Iraq has spawned al Qaeda operations in Iraq like the operations in Afghanistan that brought 9/11 to America. There were also dire warnings this week that attacks are planned from the terrorists in Iraq f...
CNN just reported that American Officials have confirmed Hezbollah forces from Lebanon are coming into Iraq and attacking U.S. Forces with the most sophisticated bombs that can destroy our best armor. Now we have the internal factions, al Qaeda and now Hezbollah to deal with in Iraq. The security situation continues to get worse every week and this turn of events is another sign that we are not controlling the violence. We have spent over 4 years to train over 350,000 Iraqi Milit...
The refusal of Bush to submit the documents subpoenaed by the House and Senate Judiciary committees is the last straw. Congress has the responsibility of Oversight and they can not exercise that responsibility if Bush can pick and choose what information he will release. Executive Privilege does not trump the responsibility of Congress to be able to insure the executive Branch is not violating the laws of the United States. To allow such a practice would mean a President could violate AN...
Bush claims we can not control our illegal immigration without his guest worker program. The problem with that argument is that we currently have EIGHT guest worker programs. These are the guest programs that are currently available: H Visa 372,000 workers E Visa 49,000 I Visa 15,500 L Visa 134,000 O Visa 12,600 P Visa 38,700 R Visa 12,000 NAFTA 5,600 WHY is Bush telling us we need yet another Guest Worker Program in order to control Immigra...
Congress needs to tell Bush this will not happen. Army Considers Longer Combat Tours Again By ANNE FLAHERTY (Associated Press Writer) From Associated Press June 19, 2007 3:58 PM EDT WASHINGTON - The Army is considering whether it will have to extend the combat tours of troops in Iraq if President Bush opts to maintain the recent buildup of forces through spring 2008. Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren testified Tuesday that the service is reviewing other options, including relying...
The report to Congress by the Pentagon acknowledges the overall violence in Iraq is as bad or worse then before the surge. The report covers the period from February thru mid-May. Although some sections of Baghdad have shown less violence there are still attacks in the capital almost every day. The experts predicted that the most likely result of the Bush Surge would be an up surge in violence in other areas of the country. That is exactly what has taken place. The report also c...
The story by Ned Parker of the Los Angeles Times clearly shows why the Bush plan in Iraq has failed. Everyone has acknowledged that only through Political Resolution can the Violence in Iraq come under control. NOT the Surge and NOT the presence of 160,000 American Troops will end the Violence and when we leave the MOST likely scenario is that Iraq will face a more intense Civil War. Mr. Parker described the relationship between Nouri al-Maliki and the other members of the Iraqi Gove...
Bush claims without his Comprehensive Immigration Law he can not secure the border. That is just another Bush LIE. He has the authority to control the border but has failed to act even after 9/11. We have laws to punish employers that hire Illegal’s but Bush does not enforce the laws. We must first STOP people from entering our country illegally and we need to punish employers from hiring illegals. What Bush wants is to reward people who have broken our laws and the cost of his c...
Of the 2008 presidential candidates who were in Congress in 2002, only Biden read the NIE before voting to allow Bush to take this country to War in Iraq! Edwards, Clinton, McCain and Brownback all admitted they cast the most important vote that any member of Congress can make without reading the most complete assessment of the reasons to attack another country—The National Intelligence Estimate. As former Governor Gilmore said, Members of Congress “ought to read at least that kind of mat...