Posted on 06/19/2005 6:46:23 PM PDT by Sthitch
Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record) is angry. He's upset about the more than 1,700 U.S. soldiers killed and nearly 13,000 wounded in Iraq. He's also aggravated by the continued string of sunny assessments from the Bush administration, such as Vice President Dick Cheney's recent remark that the insurgency is in its "last throes." "Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality," Hagel tells U.S. News. "It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq." That's strikingly blunt talk from a member of the president's party, even one cast as something of a pariah in the GOP because of his early skepticism about the war. "I got beat up pretty good by my own party and the White House that I was not a loyal Republican," he says. Today, he notes, things are changing: "More and more of my colleagues up here are concerned."
Indeed, there are signs that the politics of the Iraq war are being reshaped by the continuing tide of bad news. Take this month in Iraq, with 47 U.S. troops killed in the first 15 days. That's already five more than the toll for the entire month of June last year. With the rate of insurgent attacks near an all-time high and the war's cost set to top $230 billion, more politicians on both sides of the aisle are responding to opinion polls that show a growing number of Americans favoring a withdrawal from Iraq. Republican Sens. Lincoln Chafee and Lindsey Graham have voiced their concerns. And two Republicans, including the congressman who brought "freedom fries" to the Capitol, even joined a pair of Democratic colleagues in sponsoring a bill calling for a troop withdrawal plan to be drawn up by year's end. "I feel confident that the opposition is going to build," says Rep. Ron Paul (news, bio, voting record), the other Republican sponsor and a longtime opponent of the war.
Sagging polls. The measure is not likely to go anywhere, but Hagel calls it "a major crack in the dike." Whether or not that's so, the White House has reason to worry that the assortment of critiques of Bush's wartime performance may be approaching a tipping point. Only 41 percent of Americans now support Bush's handling of the Iraq war, the lowest mark ever in the Associated Press-Ipsos poll. And the Iraq news has combined with a lethargic economy and doubts about the president's Social Security proposals to push Bush's overall approval ratings near all-time lows. For now, most Republicans remain publicly loyal to the White House. "Why would you give your enemies a timetable?" asks House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. "[Bush] doesn't fight the war on news articles or television or on polls."
Still, the Bush administration is planning to hit back, starting this week, with a renewed public-relations push by the president. Bush will host Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari and has scheduled a major speech for June 28, the anniversary of the handover of power to an Iraqi government from U.S. authorities. But Congress's patience could wear very thin going into an election year. "If things don't start to turn around in six months, then it may be too late," says Hagel. "I think it's that serious."
Bush's exit strategy--which depends on a successful Iraqi political process--got a boost last week when Sunni and Shiite politicians ended weeks of wrangling over how to increase Sunni representation on the constitution-writing committee. Now, however, committee members have less than two months before their mid-August deadline. And given how long it took to resolve who gets to draft the document, it's hard to imagine a quick accord on the politically explosive issues they face.
Hagel 2008:
D.O.A.
If you just take that part of the quote, Hagel is finally right about something.
Chuck don't show up. We don't need another defeatest bastard. I remember the likes of you from the Viet Nam Era. Steal defeat from the hands of victory. Go straight back to hell Chuck.
Yes, he does.
And, no, it won't.
I'm really looking forward to '08. If for no reason other than being able to reject the McMavericks. Of course they won't handle the rejection well, McMaverick has thrown a temper tantrum for gin on five years. Still, it would seem they need to be repeatedily taught that they are the extremists while we're the mainstream.
Nebraska owes more to America. Primary the SOB out and find out before the primary whether he is joined at the hip with Planned Barrenhood Warren Buffett so that Archbishop Curtiss and Bishop Bruskewitz can do their part in disposing of Hegel.
Most of the citizens of America do not see what is happening to their country.
Today you can see that the Socialists are repeating the same strategy on Iraq they used on the Vietnam war, “Make the people think we are loosing the war, it is costing too much, etc.”. If the people of America would open their eyes they would see there are Socialists ALL AROUND THEM! The Democrats don’t deny they are Socialists, they just don’t talk about it too much. The Democratic Party was taken over by the Socialists subversives many years ago. Zell Miller said it best: “There are strangers living in my basement…” Those strangers took over the Democrat Party!!
They are working with other socialist countries and for the UN. The goal is to damage the United States of America with every opportunity either real or made up. We must make the people see who the Socialists are and what they want to do to America. Does anyone remember the phrase/term “Parliamentary Pirates” from the “1950s? The communists used every obscure rule and by law to take over union meetings and then the unions themselves. This is still happening today. The majority controlled by a minority. We have to quit calling them “Progressive, Liberal, Left Wing, Democrats etc”. They are SOCIALISTS DAMN IT!!!! Yes, “THEY” have been busy for YEARS! This is a perfect example of incrementalism, “Social or political gradualism”.
This kind of crap is just getting depressing.
Well stated!
Thank You, here is the rest of it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1402724/posts
Dean: Socialist victory equals win for Dems
http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html
http://www.restoringamerica.org/documents/socialists_in_congress.html
Democratic Socialists of America's Progressive Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives
Taken verbatim from the Internet web site of the Democratic Socialists of America
"The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International (also in Francais and Espanol). DSA's members are building progressive movements for social change while establishing an openly socialist presence in American communities and politics...
http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/widemsoc.pdf
Question: Aren’t you a party that’s in competition with the
Democratic Party for votes and support?
No, we are not a separate party. Like our friends and allies in the feminist, labor, civil rights, religious, and community organizing movements, many of us have been active in the Democratic Party. We work with those movements to strengthen the party’s leftwing, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp
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http://www.rinfret.com/30commies.html
IN THE 1930'S, 1940'S AND PART OF THE 1950'S THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO QUESTION THAT AMERICAN COMMUNISTS WERE ENGAGED IN ESPIONAGE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AND THEY WERE IN HIGH PLACES IN THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. TO SAY THAT OUR INVESTIGATION OF THESE TRAITORS WAS A WITCH HUNT IS TO PERVERT HISTORY AND TO LIE TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY. THE PEOPLE THAT SAY THIS ARE PRETTY IGNORANT OF THE TRUTH. THE FACTS PROVE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT OR THEY ARE INTENTIONALLY LYING.
Congressional Progressive Caucus
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