S.O.B. Alliance Member NixGuy: “Jean Schmidt Making the Right People Angry”

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At one point in the emotional debate, Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, told of a phone call she received from a Marine colonel.
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Did I just hear the door to entering the 2nd District GOP Primary slam shut?

That’s what that sound was!

Schmidt rocks the House

Somebody better put the Whistleblower on suicide watch, cause “Taxkiller” Tom Brinkman needs to spend the next election cycle at home. Jean Schmidt has just proven herself to be exactly who we need in Congress.

Wow, this is fun!

Schmidt Speech Huge Hit With Republicans

While the main stream media and the liberal blogosphere is in an uproar, the Conservative blogosphere is awash with praise for Jean Schmidt’s attack on Representative Murtha:

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403-3 vote. What is it democrats want and what do they stand for? I am puzzled by this vote. I have read the language of Murtha resolution and the one voted on last night and unless you want to get into the meaning of the word “is” there is no difference. Why given the opportunity to vote to remove troops did the democrats bail?

We finally have a Republican with balls. I am glad she stood up and fired back.

Because they’re all rhetoric. They know we can’t leave Iraq… they’re just trying to keep their base happy, but when push comes to shove they’re all on Bush’s side.

Dear Ms. Schmidt,

What you have done today is sickening. Plain and simple. I heard your words on the floor of the House of Representatives and I question how you can call yourself an American. It is the right of every Amercan to state their opinion, especially in matters considering an illegal war and the abuse of American soldiers. I want to thank you for showing America how close minded and idiotic your party truly is. Your president and vice-president, both dodgers of military service, have errantly called into question the integrity of a decorated voluntary war veteran. And you have questioned his courage from your fluffy chair in your nice, big office in Washington, D.C. Good luck with your search for a moral center. Right now you’re stumbling around in the dark.

Meanwhile, I’ll be waiting for an apology to Mr. Murtha and to the American people.

Thank you

Congresswoman Schmidt-Great job. You have the vote of this vet.

Sam has long post about peoples right to state their opinion unless it differs with his. It is interesting that for months those like Kennedy and Reid have been calling Bush a liar and worse yet if someone questions the courage of someone who is advocating cutting and running during time of war, they are to be silenced.

The airport road, the most dangerous highway in Iraq…2 ½ years a symbol of U.S. failure…5 miles of suicide bombers, grenades, rockets and booby-traps…made safe by simple boots-on-the-ground
- Jackie Spinner, The Washington Post

If you can read the above paragraph and not be angry then this letter is intended for you. I have taken your barbs and insults, I have withstood the crass and inane remarks, the thoughtlessness, the shallow and one-sided arguments and now I want to know how you can still justify your belief in your own so-called “support” for the troops.

“Presence is definitely a key to our mission,” said Army Pfc. Justin Wildey, 23, of Marietta, Ga. “In order to make everyone else safer, we’ve got to take chances. I don’t have any problem with it. Most of us here don’t.”

I’ll tell you what happened to me when this war started. I had read so many really frightening warnings and predictions that I was literally in shock. I want the several hundred thousand soldiers that, before the war started, four-star Gen. Eric Shineski said would be needed to occupy a country like Iraq and I don’t care if we here in America are left to fend for ourselves to do it. And I want them to have the best equipment money can buy.

It can only be callous indifference to human life, both the Iraqi people and American soldiers, that makes you able to read the following statements and still feel no alarm or concern:

· Gen. George W. Casey, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq in June of this year, called the military’s efforts “the Pillsbury Doughboy idea” – pressing the insurgency in one area only causes it to rise elsewhere.
· The State Department, in a recently declassified memo dated Feb. 7, 2003, warned U.S. Central Command, before the invasion, of “serious planning gaps” for post-war security.
· On January 9, 2003 Ari Fleischer, Bush’s press secretary at the time, stated during his press briefing that, “We know for a fact that there are weapons (of mass destruction) there.”
· In early 2003, according to former administration officials, George Tenet, then CIA director, and then-Secretary of State Colin Powell also rejected as exaggerated and unsubstantiated by intelligence elements of a speech drafted by aides to Vice President Dick Cheney that was intended to present the administration’s case for war.
· In September of 2003 the House Intelligence Committee, then led by Peter Goss, produced an interim report that found the United States went to war in Iraq on the basis of outdated and vague intelligence.
· U.S. intelligence agencies had little reliable information on relations between Baghdad and terrorists groups such as al-Qaida and several official investigations found no cooperation between Hussein and terrorists.
· It remains unclear who forged the Niger-uranium documents and why and how such crude forgeries got into a major presidential speech. (Dan Rather got the boot for not checking a document thoroughly enough – shouldn’t the standard be higher for the president?)
· A Senate Intelligence Committee review has described repeated, unsuccessful efforts by the White House and its allies in the Pentagon to persuade the CIA to embrace the view that Iraq had provided support to al-Qaida.
· It is unclear how and why bogus information from Iraqi exiles was used in the administration’s case for war despite warnings from some U.S. intelligence officers that much of it was questionable, inconclusive or disputed.
· There are questions whether the Iraqi exiles fed information directly to the Pentagon (Rumsfeld) and Vice President Dick Cheney’s office.
· It has been reported that intelligence was manipulated by cherry-picking the information that supported the administration position on Iraq and ignoring any questions.
· It is well documented that Rumsfeld set up his own little CIA within the CIA to get the information he “wanted.”
· There’s more but people will only see what they want to see. A letter written to The Kansas City Star recently has a reader stating that it is absurd to think that the Plame affair was part of a bigger conspiracy to sell the war based on false premises and lies. He says, “Give me a break. We had sufficient facts to make an intelligent decision the first time.” Yeah, I think you did.

Also, 13,997 pork barrel projects in 2005 which amounts to $27.3 billion - a record. $60 billion in corporate welfare. A threat of a presidential veto if the Senate raises taxes on oil companies some of whom had $9 billion profits and said they didn’t need the billion dollar tax breaks. Federal spending has grown twice as fast than under Clinton. 60% of the public question the integrity of Bush. You’re in denial the Republicans are finished.

A. If the Republicans are finished, it’s because they haven’t been conservative enough. I don’t agree they are finished, but it should be noted that being conservative is not the problem.

B. Your long list of problems may or may not be real, but they are mostly tactical in nature, in other words, you have problems with the way the war is being conducted and the answer is not to conduct the war at all.

With that kind of thinking, we should have surrendered in WWII because the Anzio and Salerno beachheads were mistakes and ultimately did not help win the war.

We should have given up in the civil war because the North could not win a battle.

And on and on it goes, the answer to a tactical problem is better tactics, not giving up. Which is your answer?

One last thought, if we were not fighting him in Iraq, what would Zarqawi be doing right now? Planning his next fishing trip? working on his GED?

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