Rep. John Murtha is in no way going to allow the United States to be victorious in the war on terror.

WASHINGTON — A powerful Democrat and Iraq war foe said he intends to introduce legislation in the coming weeks that would effectively end President Bush’s plans to send 21,500 more troops into Iraq by setting limits on which troops can be sent.

Using an unusual medium — a recorded interview posted on the Internet — Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said his bill would prevent troops from being sent back to Iraq too soon or too poorly equipped. Troops being sent back to Iraq for another tour would have to stay in the United States at least one year before being redeployed. The bill would also end “stop-loss” policies by preventing the president from retaining troops in Iraq after their enlistments expire.

• House Speaker Pelosi Says Bush Has No Authority to Invade Iran

Murtha, who is chairman of the defense subcommittee to the House Appropriations Committee, said he is formulating legislation with teeth because he doesn’t think Bush’s plan to send more troops to Baghdad and al Anbar province would accomplish the goals of bringing peace to the country or returning troops home sooner.

Murtha has a history of being a pacifist. He was the one who got President Clinton to retreat from Mogadishu after Clinton sent Army Rangers into a battle under equipped. You remember Black Hawk down, don’t you? Probably not, most Americans quickly forget what defeat does to our enemy. But Al Queada remembers. We were fighting against al Queada in Somalia, and bin Laden boasted of our retreat then as a victory for his holy war against the US.

Representative Murtha was pivotal in that defeat.

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Rep. Jack ‘RUN’ Murtha had major plans ahead for ensuring defeat.

Stepping up his campaign against the White House, Murtha, chairman of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, told Tom Andrews, a former congressman-turned-activist, in the online interview that he would attach so many conditions to an upcoming spending bill for Iraq that the Pentagon would not be able to find enough troops to carry out the president’s “surge” plan.

So while all you see in the MSM is how Congress is passing this non-binding resolution, you had better look behind Pelosi’s power curtain. She has placed the pacifist Murtha in charge of exactly the right Committee to put an end to any and all US military force.

Sadly Pansy asses like MN RINO Jim Ramstad are helping Democrats force America to lose the war against terror. You were either with us or against when this war started, it is a damn shame members of the US Congress are now against us, the United States.

Via RedState - Denying Iran

There are many different ways to do this, between overt and covert military actions and economic and to a lesser extent diplomatic screw-tightening; what we should be aiming for is reaching the point where Ahmadenijad and the other Iranian leaders wake up every morning saying to themselves “how do we get those ****** Americans to stop?” At the same time, the longstanding fact of military life is that when you hit the other guy back, you had better be prepared for him to escalate, and know how you respond next. So the next steps are perilous - but continuing to let them attack without consequence is perilous, too. Our guys in the field need to know that we don’t take this (or, specifically, won’t let them take this) sitting down.

But the Pacifist Congress is going to wave the white flag if Pelosi, the Democrats, and RINOs have their way. They have elections to win, and can’t be bogged down with defending America or the western liberty loving way of life.

There is No Iran!

Wait

Iran is our friend, if we could just get them to understand us……

How will they vote on the defeat resolution in the House?

I’m pretty darn sure Rep. Kline will vote against Defeat.

I’m fairly confident Rep. Bachmann will vote against Defeat.

But what will RINO Rep. Ramstad do?

He’s voted with Democrats on just about everything so far the session of Congress. Will he vote for defeat in Iraq just like Pelosi and the Democrats?

Has he for all intense purposes joined the cut and run caucus?

Congressman Tim Walz DFLers CD1, leads off the debate. He led the Pledge. He’s Pelosi’s little pet pacifist.

Do Democrats really think Americans voted to turn Iraq into an Iranian run terrorist hotbed?

Do they really think the enemy in Iraq will just leave us alone if we leave them alone?

When will these tools figure out Iran is at war with US?

Additional Thoughts:
It took 19 men highjacking 4 planes and knocking down buildings and murdering 3000 Americans to wake us up to the fact that terrorists were at war with us. Numerous administrations ignored the gathering threat until it was too late.

What will it take to realize the stakes of defeat in Iraq?

Over 3000 brave soldiers have died fighting against the enemy? Soldiers were killed fighting the enemy. How many civilians would be at risk if the US gave Iraq over to the terrorists who want to have resources and training grounds to kill us?

Just saw a scroll on CSPAN that Pelosi’s Democrats are not allowing any opposing or alternate resolutions. Is this bipartisanship?

One Republican who spoke s far did bring up that the Democrats have the responsibility to provide an alternative plan f they oppose the President’s. Having listened to a few, unknown Democrats, I would say the Democrats are offering a plan. Cut and run, retreat and defeat.

They are waiving the white flag in the war on terror.

God bless America, she really needs some serious help right now.

For those of you who are pessimists first and national security doves second, how much more evidence do you need to admit Iran is at war with us?

This weekend we found out about hi-tech IEDs specifically designed to pierce the armor on our most heavily armored vehicles that are from Iran. Intelligence supports that top Iranian leaders are implicit in them being smuggled into Iraq.

Today we find out that Austrian military sniper riffles sold to Iran have been found in Iraq.

Folks, no matter how much you hate war in general, when there are people fighting a war against you, you have to do something about it.

Oh and for you Democratic allies who think Bush is just trumping up things as Congress begins the defeatist debate, the charges of Iranian intervention in Iraq, is far from new.

Via Global Security - BBC October 2005

The roadside bomb has evolved steadily in step with the defences deployed against it to become the most dangerous threat facing US and British troops in Iraq.

An armour-piercing version of the bomb - blamed for the deaths of eight British soldiers this year - marks the latest advance in the insurgents’ arsenal.

The UK has accused Iran of supplying the new weapon to militants in southern Iraq, via the Lebanese Hezbollah militia group, although Tehran has denied this.

Democrats want to negotiate with Iran as a way to solve the Iraq battle. An admission of Iranian involvement. Iran is fanning the sectarian violence in order to defeat the US. They are carrying out operations and/or supplying opposition forces in Iraq. That’s an act of war to me.

Invade Iran? Not on the top of my list, but cutting and running is not going to solve the problem, and will in fact make it worse. We’re in a global war against terror. Our enemy in Iraq see it as the central front in the war, why don’t members of our own Congress.

Iran IS the heart of terror around the world, and the government there is trying to get the US out of Iraq so it can continue its mission to dominate the world with a foreign policy of terror. If the US gives up in Iraq, Iran will know the US won’t have the intestinal fortitude to stop them anywhere else.

Folks, war is hell. It never goes as you had planned, and schtuff happens. Iraq’s neighbors are terrorist hotbeds and sponsors of terror. They are actively fighting against US interests with in Iraq’s borders. Non-binding resolutions opposing dealing with the sectarian violence in Baghdad is nothing more than passing a battle plan for our enemies. When they know what we will not tolerate, that’s exactly what they will do.

Why doesn’t Congress just take down that American flag flying over the Capital and raise the white flag of defeat in its place?

I am pretty committed to the idea that Sen. Norm Coleman cannot win with out his base 100% behind him. He will never get the hardcore Democrat vote in Minnesota, and the leaning Dem moderates will likely break left on election day. So Coleman needs his Conservative base, not only to show up, but donate to, volunteer for, and speak proudly of him.

Behavior/votes/stances like his vote last night to allow the Democrats actually vote on resolutions opposing the Comander in Chief will not sit well with me/us. I thought we got rid of the Chafey-esque Republicans. I thought maybe Republicans would start acting like Republicans after the November elections. At the very least, I hoped Republicans would still stand up for teh war on terror and our allies in the middle of that fight.

Senator Coleman is rising up to the top of Hugh Hewitt’s call list. 

Contact the key senators and urge them to act like the loyal opposition –loyal to the troops and opposed to Democratic defeatism:

Senator Lamar Alexander (TN): (202) 224-4944

Senator Norm Coleman (MN): (202) 224-5641

Senator Susan Collins (ME): (202) 224-2523

Senator Lisa Murkowski (AK): (202) 224-6665

Senator Gordon Smith (OR): (202) 224-3753

Senator John Sununu (NH): (202) 224-2841

Senator John Warner (VA): (202) 224-2023

I do not think I am alone in saying that I will have a hard time going out of my way to support Coleman if he does vote for any defeatist resolution. Maybe it is time to craft a non-binding resolution stating opposition to Coleman receiving the MNGOP endorsement.

Richard Dreyfuss gave a speech recently in which he laid out a brilliant new approach to defending the United States. Forgiveness

In response to a question from a student, Dreyfuss talked about his acting as the host for the launch of the Geneva Accords in 2003. From that experience, and from his own attempts to bring political leaders together to come to a solution to the conflict in the Middle East, Dreyfuss said that forgiveness was the only way to peace in that region. “There might be an answer to the problem in the Middle East when we understand the word ‘forgiveness,’” he said. “There is no original sin in this situation. There is no beginning to it, no villainy that stands out first. It is not a situation where you can say where or when it began. In the interest of solving the problem, and not of winning, you have to learn to forgive.”

So there you go. This is one of the great thinkers of Hollywood that does have the ear of Democratic leaders.

I guess I am not willing to forgive the people who made September 11th happen. I’m not willing to forgive the savages who behead and torture people. I’m not willing to forgive the people who won’t be happy until I am dead. I’ll tell ya what, I’d be happy to pitch in to send Dreyfuss to Iraq to go give Sadr and the terrorists a big old hug.

But Dreyfuss isn’t satisfied with just lashing out at the pro-national defense crowd.

Born Jewish, Dreyfuss shared his thoughts on religion, “I don’t know about God. I do know that a life that is led asking questions about God and questions about what is mysterious in the universe is a prettier life than the life that does not ask those questions. I also know that so far at least, we’ve never come up with any answers that are big enough and so I remain a secular agnostic with a large curiosity.”

So while we are forgiving the the people trying to defeat freedom in the middle east, we MUST forget about God.

Dreyfuss also discussed the importance of teaching civics in schools as a means for bringing about better citizenship and understanding of the Constitution’s role in American society. “Do you celebrate the Constitution as a done deal or as a process?” he asked. “If we can approach it as something we are responsible to everyday, we might get out of the mess we are in. Being a part of an American Democracy is a daily effort. These things are complex and they require expertise. Teaching civics is taking the greatest idea in the history of the governance of mankind and making it real.”

This is the living breathing document argument that so many liberals believe in. If what you want to see isn’t spelled out in there, you just take it to court and argue that it is implied through a little nuance.
So there you have it. He’s one of Hollywood’s thought leaders, and such is one of the Democratic movement’s spokes people.

But then again, I consider the Hollywood elite something America needs to apologize for.

I just read this Hill story. Now I wish it was happy hour.

It is quite embarrassing to see the Republicans in the US Senate focussing on their own damn careers instead of doing what is best for winning the war on terror.