Congesspukes: "In November...Americans voted for escalation in Iraq"

Republican reps have been saying that on the House floor.

Their logic: Voters wanted change. Escalating the war in Iraq is a change in tactics. Therefore the voters were calling for an escalation.

I have to give them some credit for spouting this crap with straight faces.

I don't think there will be many repukes left after 2008. :silly:

How do these guys live with themselves knowing that they, as well as most of America, are completely full of shit?

bullshit.

and people find out this is what they think, there won't be many around after the '08 election, that's for sure.

And if they didn't vote for change, then they voted for the escalation because that is more of the same.

:mad:

Of Your First-Born Act."

How far are these idiots going to abstract? America did not vote for simply change. We voted for a very specific change.

Idiots...

I have a young son. I started out late. Most think I am his Grandpa. He is the world to me.
Our children are not to be wasted. Just the thought of what families are going thru rips my guts out.
To have our children die from a war based on lies told to us by our leaders and then to see this slime squirm around trying not to answer to their deception is beyond debate!
We have no more true leaders just a bunch of second rate politician con men. You know it and I sure know it. Even with the last election same old same old.
Is there something inherently wrong with our system of government?
Or is it that we have mutated that which our fore-fathers designed?
Has our civility allowed the vultures to reign?
I am an Atheist but "These are the times that try mens Souls"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl7BWc3c4bE

Bring our Brave children home. Enough is enough.

Charley Ski

:D

Welcome to DU Charley
:toast:

I know and that is why I used it. It was written by Thomas Paine to rally the troops of the American Revolution when the going got tough.
There is now a new revolution brewing or maybe a continuation of the original.
Our Republic only works well when the vultures are not allowed to roost. I guess our friend the Bald Eagle has not been making his rounds. If you see him before I do please send him to the White House. I think there are a few vultures perched in the rafters.

Charley

and other rooms there in. Their rafters are full of bats. (or are they in their belfries?)

:wtf:

they will not be in office again.

That's fun all on its own.

I am trying everyone to please!

So even though it's not a civil war, we're sending 50,000 more,

To save Iraq from the dastardly Sunnis!

Fuck the Republicans! Just fuck 'em! :nuke:

If the "surge" was large enough to actually have an effect - which could change the current situation - the public might support it (if it actually led to a deescalation) - BUT bushco is offering a very small increase (because they have stretched the military and can not do much more without going to a draft which for political reasons they are not going to do) - and it doesn't appeal to the public because it is more of the same (indeed it is just returning to the amount of troop presence of about 6-8 months ago - and things were *so much better then* :eyes: ) So while on some level there may be truth to the claim - there is no truth to it per the bush surge.

Some of the GOP in congress must be cringing - forced to use any rhetoric at all that *might give refuge* for supporting such a very unpopular move - and knowing that bushco is walking them down the plank to the very possible end of their congressional career.

They didn't get it then, and they don't get it now. I would venture to say even more of them will be voted out next election.