It's time for all good Americans to come home in every way. The fabric of our nation is growing weak in the face of incompetent leadership.
The more the Democrats pander to Republican "Ideologes" the more they are going to fail the electorate and be turned away if they don't end this war.
The "MoveOn.Org" (proudly click here) ad that has caused Republican's a platform to 'attempt' to Swift Boat the elections of 2008 was a legitimate right of Freedom of Speech. The ad was supposed to shock those that read it to think about what was transpiring in Washington, DC. Was Petraeus under so much pressure from Bush to perform to an artificial standard that he would contort the evidence of the circumstances in Iraq? That is what the ad asked.
Quite frankly he did and as the questioning continued it was completely obvious he did. I don't believe it was premediated, but, I do believe he has been under so much pressure from Bush that he 'taylored' his comments to support the Iraq War. There was a profound statement the general made at the beginning of his comments that mostly went unnoticed and that was the qualifying statement, "I realize the Iraq War isn't necessarily the only focus to the security needs of the USA..." To that reality this ad was more loyal to the security of the USA than anyone whom tried to oppress/suppress it at the Senate or media.
One might ask Senator Jim Webb right now, what good did it do him to stand for oppression of free speech realizing he didn't get a valuable amendment passed to support the well being of the USA military troops and their families? I strongly recommend all Democrats, Senate or House reflect on that reality. The Republicans lost respect in 2006 for their corruption and their cronism. Sidling up to Republicans isn't the way to support the national security of the USA, it's a road to ruin for this country.
The legislation passed in the Senate is a violation of the First Amendment and is a slap in the face to a military that is protect the USA Constitution and not destroy it.
The Iraq War is an illegel and genocidal war, needs to come to an end.
September 21st, 2007 5:51 pm
Senate Approves Resolution Denouncing MoveOn.org Ad
By David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 — The Senate approved a resolution on Thursday denouncing the liberal antiwar group MoveOn.org over an advertisement that questioned the credibility of Gen. David H. Petraeus, the American commander in Iraq.
MoveOn.org, with 3.2 million members, has become a powerful force in Democratic politics and the advertisement it paid for, which appeared in The New York Times, has come under sharp attack from Congressional Republicans and others as unpatriotic and impugning the integrity of General Petraeus.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, both Democratic candidates for president, voted against the resolution, which passed 72 to 25.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10260
U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 110th Congress - 1st Session
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
Vote Summary
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00344
*** 23 Democrats Condemn First Amendment ***
Max Baucus (D-MT), Evan Bayh (D-IN), Benjamin Cardin (D-MD), Thomas Carper (D-DE), Robert Casey (D-PA), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Herb Kohl (D-WI), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Joe Lieberman (ID-CT), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Mark Pryor (D-AR), Ken Salazar (D-CO), Jon Tester (D-MT), James Webb (D-VA)
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September 21st, 2007 1:58 pm
Democrats fail to pass anti-war bill
By Anne Flaherty / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Senate rejected legislation Friday that would have ordered most U.S. troops home from Iraq in nine months, culminating a losing week for Democrats who failed to push through any anti-war proposal.
The vote, 47-47, fell 13 votes short of the 60 needed to pass.
"We're going to continue to lose lives and squander resources while they (the Iraqis) dawdle," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who sponsored the bill.
Republicans blocked the measure, contending it would have dire consequences for the region and usurp control of the war from seasoned generals. Last week, Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, recommended to Congress and President Bush that some 130,000 troops be kept there through next summer — a slight decrease from the more than 160,000 troops there now.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=10257
Friday, September 21st, 2007
General Betray-Us and MoveOn.org ... by Cindy Sheehan
I have often been critical of MoveOn.org, basically because I feel, for the most part that they support Democrats to the detriment of democracy. However, MoveOn.org was a big help to me at Camp Casey in August ‘05 and organized the thousands of candlelight vigils that occurred across the country. I will always be grateful to them for that.
I had a policy when my children were younger. I would always try to catch them doing something "right" (sharing, being kind, etc) and I would praise them and give them a treat. In that vein, I have to give my 100% support to MoveOn.org in regards to their right-on ad in the NYT that has become even the object of a Senate denouncement.
It must be hard for MoveOn.org to have 21 Democratic Senators vote to denounce the ad when MoveOn.org has been so supportive of the party. However, I don't think that it's appropriate for the Senate to be voting on newspaper ads, when it is a clear 1st Amendment right of anyone in our representative republic to place such ads, whether one agrees with them or not, and with almost half the Senate Dems voting to denounce MoveOn's freedom of speech and the Dem leadership taking impeachment "off the table" and giving BushCo more latitude to spy on us, I wonder which part of our Constitution the Dems will defile next?
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=923
