Posted on 09/05/2007 3:37:36 PM PDT by Bob Leibowitz
Chuck Schumer, senior Senator from New York and self-described member of the Democratic leadership team in the Senate, really knows how to make friends and influence people.
This morning, in a speech on the Senate floor, he explicitly told the U. S. Marines in Anbar province that they've failed and are a part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Let me be clear. The violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al-Qaeda said to these tribes, "We have to fight al-Qaeda ourselves."
It wasn't that the surge brought peace here, it was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here and that was because there was no one else there protecting. (Emphasis in original.)
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I can’t post what I’d like to say to this slimy jerk.
Crawl back under your rotten tree Schumer, you slug.
Do they still ‘keel-haul’ scoundrels?
Chuckie should be locked in stocks at Walter Reed where he can be pelted 24by7 by service members of all branches.. It could be the best form of treatment for many there today, maybe even a few who have served and been injured in Anbar..
The arrogance and callousness which he and other dems constantly display will be their downfall.
If you can show no respect for fighting men and women, then you deserve no respect from their family and community members either.
Chuckie,, UPYURS!
how stupid could one asshole be...just ask chucky cheese.....a failure in new york a baby in the senate over shadowed by the beast.
Let me be clear. The violence in Anbar has gone down despite the Democrats, not because of the Democrats. The inability of American Democratic Senators to protect these tribes from al-Qaeda said to these tribes, “We have to fight al-Qaeda ourselves.”
There fixed it.
The truth hurts.
Quote. Chuckie Sucks. End of Quote.
As a Wisconsinite, I feel your pain. We have the same blight upon our lands.
That arrogant, condescending POS!
Every time this pig opens his mouth we should have Michael Steel rebut him and remind everyone that chukie stole his social security number.
I love the way you write
Perhaps you would like to make your "...inability of American soldiers..." surrender pitch directly to my daughter.
She's a Marine.
You might have to leave the comfy New Yorkian setting, however.
She is currently serving this Great Country in Anbar Province.
By-the-way, Senator.
Good luck getting to sleep, when (and it will) your conscience finally catches up with you.
That is where my husband is, and I have only two words for Schumer. Never mind, I don’t want to get banned, but I’m sure you can guess what those two words are.
This just burns me up. What a low-life, anti-American, loser, cowardly, Communist bag of parrot droppings Schumer is.
How dare he say such things about the very people who defend us and who had everything to do with the shieks coming around and supporting the coalition and turning on al Qaeda??
Apparently he has abandoned his native people and does not think that Israel's survival is threatened.
When Chucky finally meets the cherubs at the heavenly gates, what will his greeting be?
My best guess:
Sorry Chucky.
What a COMPLETE fool that man is.
Schumer is lower than pond scum.
And let me be clear, the violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge. The inability of American soldiers to protect these tribes from al Qaeda said to these tribes we have to fight al Qaeda ourselves. It wasn’t that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords took peace here, created a temporary peace here. And that is because there was no one else there protecting.
Remember when the criticism of the Bush administration was that they didn’t understand the complex social structure of tribal life in Iraq? Remember when we heard nothing but how Bush and the US were bulls in a china shop, insulting tribal leaders and forcing them into the insurgencies? Now that we work with these same tribal leaders to build support against the terrorists, they’ve become “warlords”, even while they send thousands of their young men into the Iraqi Army.
Chuck may hear from a few of those troops that have a supposed inability to protect Iraqi civilians over the next few days. Perhaps he’ll hear from Michael Yon and Michael Totten, who have embedded with these troops and have documented their clear ability to protect civilians and drive al-Qaeda terrorists from places like Baqubah and Fallujah. It’s obvious that Chuck hasn’t actually read any of those accounts from the front.
The notion that the US had no role in gaining the trust of the tribes that now openly support our deployment is risible on its face. If we were as incompetent as Chuck says, why would they bother working with us at all? Why not just rise up against us and get us out of Iraq? If we can’t fight the terrorists, why would the tribes hesitate to drive us off their land? It’s because the tribes understand that we are a highly effective force against the mostly-foreign terrorists in AQI, and they need our protection to bring normalcy to their areas.
Duane Patterson, Hugh Hewitt, and Bob Leibowitz have more. Schumer should answer for this slur against the troops fighting to secure Iraq and defeat the terrorists and succeeding in the mission they have been given. His comments are nothing short of a slanderous smear.
Posted by Ed Morrissey on September 5, 2007, http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/012590.php
I Guess Uncle Chuck Didn’t Read This, Either
Last night, I posted about Chuck Schumer’s jaw-dropping assertion that the US military had nothing to do with the success in Anbar, Diyala, and western Iraq in throwing off al-Qaeda goons. I noted that Chuck apparently never bothered to read reports from independent journalists who have reported from the front during the surge. He also hasn’t bothered to read the foreign press, including war critic Martin Fletcher of the Times of London, who spelled out clearly what role the Americans played in destroying AQI’s grip on the region in a story from a week ago (h/t: commenter Bennett, and empahses mine):
I had met Captain Patriquin while embedded with US troops in Ramadi last November. He was a big man, moustachioed, ex-Special Forces, fluent in Arabic and engaged in what was then a revolutionary experiment for a US military renowned for busting doors down. He and a small group from the First Brigade Combat Team, part of the 1st Armoured Division, were assiduously courting the local sheikhs – tribal leaders – over endless cups of tea and cigarettes.
They were encouraging them to rise up against the hundreds of al-Qaeda fighters – Saudi, Jordanian, Syrian, Sudanese, Yemeni – who had arrived in Ramadi two years earlier, promising to lead the battle against the infidel Americans. What al-Qaeda actually did was recruit local thugs, seize control of the city, and impose a Taleban-style rule of terror. Mayor Latif said that they regularly beheaded “collaborators” in public and left the heads beside the corpses. Mischievous children would then put cigarettes in the mouths of the disembodied heads.
Captain Patriquin may have offered more than mere words. His main interlocutor, Sheikh Abdul Sittar Bezea al-Rishawi, told The Times that he gave them guns and ammunition too. The sheikhs did rise up. They formed a movement called the Anbar Awakening, led by Sheikh Sittar. They persuaded thousands of their tribesmen to join the Iraqi police, which was practically defunct thanks to al-Qaeda death threats, and to work with the reviled US troops. The US military built a string of combat outposts (COPs) throughout a city that had previously been a no-go area, and through a combination of Iraqi local knowledge and American firepower they gradually regained control of Ramadi, district by district, until the last al-Qaeda fighters were expelled in three pitched battles in March. What happened in Ramadi was later replicated throughout much of Anbar province.
Ramadi’s transformation is breathtaking. Shortly before I arrived last November masked al-Qaeda fighters had brazenly marched through the city centre, pronouncing it the capital of a new Islamic caliphate. The US military was still having to fight its way into the city through a gauntlet of snipers, rocket-propelled grenades, suicide car bombs and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Fifty US soldiers had been killed in the previous five months alone. I spent 24 hours huddled inside Eagles Nest, a tiny COP overlooking the derelict football stadium, listening to gunfire, explosions and the thump of mortars. The city was a ruin, with no water, electricity or functioning government. Those of its 400,000 terrified inhabitants who had not fled cowered indoors as fighting raged around them.
Today Ramadi is scarcely recognisable. Scores of shattered buildings testify to the fury of past battles, but those who fled the violence are now returning. Pedestrians, cars and motorbike rickshaws throng the streets. More than 700 shops and businesses have reopened. Restaurants stay open late into the evening. People sit outside smoking hookahs, listening to music, wearing shorts – practices that al-Qaeda banned. Women walk around with uncovered faces. Children wave at US Humvees. Eagles’ Nest, a heavily fortified warren of commandeered houses, is abandoned and the stadium hosts football matches.
“Al-Qaeda is gone. Everybody is happy,” said Mohammed Ramadan, 38, a stallholder in the souk who witnessed four executions. “It was fear, pure fear. Nobody wanted to help them but you had to do what they told you.”
In the comments section of the previous thread, a few of Uncle Chuck’s goalpost movers tried to explain this away by saying the tribes did it all by themselves, and that the Americans had nothing to do with the improvement. This, of course, conflicts with their equally vehement statements over the last few weeks that nothing has improved in Iraq, and that the Americans were just making things worse. Some claim that al-Qaeda in Iraq is just an administration dodge.
The Iraqis aren’t fooled. They named the police station after the man who masterminded the liberation of Ramadi from al-Qaeda. They named it after US Army Captain Travis Patriquin.
Posted by Ed Morrissey on September 6, 2007, http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/012629.php
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“upChuck Schumer is without a doubt, one of the most vile and offensive slugs to ever slime it’s way across the floor of the United States Senate.”
Don’t forget we have Durbin competing for the title.
To Contact Chucky and tell him what you think about his statements:
Washington, DC
313 Hart Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6542
Fax: 202-228-3027
TDD: 202-224-0420
New York City
757 Third Avenue
Suite 17-02
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-486-4430
Fax: 212-486-7693
TDD: 212-486-7803
Albany
Leo O’Brien Building, Room 420
Albany, NY 12207
Phone: 518-431-4070
Fax: 518-431-4076
Buffalo
130 South Elmwood Avenue #660
Buffalo, NY 14202
Phone: 716-846-4111
Fax: 716-846-4113
Binghamton
15 Henry Street, Room M103
Binghamton, NY 13901
Phone: 607-772-6792
Fax: 607-772-8124
Hudson Valley
One Park Place, Suite 100
Peekskill, NY 10566
Phone: 914-734-1532
Fax: 914-734-1673
Long Island
145 Pine Lawn Road #300
Melville, NY 11747
Phone: 631-753-0978
Fax: 631-753-0997
Rochester
100 State Street, Room 3040
Rochester, NY 14614
Phone: 585-263-5866
Fax: 585-263-3173
Syracuse
100 South Clinton Street, Room 841
Syracuse, NY 13261-7318
Phone: 315-423-5471
Fax: 315-423-5185
Thanks, just faxed a letter to his NYC and DC offices.
Love that idea, whenever he is speaking somewhere people in the audience should bring their salt shakers and start salting him. hehehe good one!
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