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United States Senate Leader Harry Reid;Republicans Again Fail To Support Our Troops
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ^ | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 | Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Posted on 09/19/2007 7:10:19 PM PDT by mdittmar

Washington, D.C.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid issued the following statement today after Republicans blocked the Webb-Hagel Amendment to enhance military readiness: 

“In blocking this bipartisan bill, Republicans have once again demonstrated that they are more committed to protecting the President than protecting our troops.  They have shown they will allow President Bush’s flawed war strategy to continue to strain our military rather than allow the availability of troops to dictate our operations.  And they believe it is in our national security interest to push our brave troops and their families beyond their breaking point.

“Democrats disagree.  We care deeply about rebuilding our badly overextended military and ensuring our troops have the time to properly train, prepare for and recover from battle.  And Democrats remain committed to repaying in some small measure the sacrifices our brave troops are making every day.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 110th; answer; blahblahblah; chutzpah; dems; dingyharry; harryreid; moonbats; moveonorg; reid; treason
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To: mdittmar

Why did we not counter-battery with a bill of our own to increase the size of the land forces by ~100,000, funded by tax cuts in a host of deserving areas (NEA, Dept of Education, FEMA etc...), described as a PARTIAL undoing of the Clinton force cuts that have forced our understrength Army and Marine Corps to have a less that 1:1 ratio of dwell:deploy time?


21 posted on 09/19/2007 7:59:43 PM PDT by redlegplanner
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

The last bigmouth that messed with Bush and the troops.

22 posted on 09/19/2007 8:00:57 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Rome2000

Where are the people of Nevada with a recall petition for this clown...traitors must not be allowed to serve the people


23 posted on 09/19/2007 8:02:39 PM PDT by burrite
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To: redlegplanner
You know I guess the RAT POTUS candidates are going to have to answer whether they feel the hanging of Saddam was justified.

After all, if the war is a lie then Husseins execution was a murder.

24 posted on 09/19/2007 8:03:54 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: MurryMom

I guess we’ll both be glad when Dingy Harry’s treasonous rhetoric come to an end after the next election - eh?


25 posted on 09/19/2007 8:13:35 PM PDT by Libloather (That's just what I need - some two-bit, washed up, loser politician giving me weather forecasts...)
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To: mdittmar
Republicans Again Fail To Support Our Troops

Methinks this reeks of triangulation. Or projection. Or some similar technique/pathology.

26 posted on 09/19/2007 8:14:21 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: Libloather

Dude, you pinging MurryMom? Do you want FR’s servers to crash and FReeper’s monitors getting the blue screen of death?


27 posted on 09/19/2007 8:16:01 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt presidential candidate to ever run for office)
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To: mdittmar

Hey Harry....STFU. You are a blithering idiot. You mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.


28 posted on 09/19/2007 8:24:02 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Dude, you pinging MurryMom?

We converse on a semi-regular basis. She does divulge a few gems like -

Of course [Hillary] will [release her medical records], just like all other Democratic presidential candidates have done for many years now.

Even if I worked at Disneyland, I couldn't make up stuff like that...

29 posted on 09/19/2007 8:27:15 PM PDT by Libloather (That's just what I need - some two-bit, washed up, loser politician giving me weather forecasts...)
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To: IronJack
Methinks this reeks of triangulation. Or projection. Or some similar technique/pathology.

Yep. Rationalization and projection. Sadly, few Republicans take the time to condemn and explain such statements, leaving the uninformed free to willfully suspend disbelief, and accept such unrefuted statements at face value.

30 posted on 09/19/2007 8:54:14 PM PDT by pawdoggie
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To: mdittmar
Wow! What a disingenuous prick! I hope his Karma allotment comes ASAP.
31 posted on 09/19/2007 9:39:14 PM PDT by Atchafalaya
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To: Atchafalaya

Harry will get what is coming to him for being such a jerk! He is not for NV, nor anything else in America!


32 posted on 09/19/2007 10:07:00 PM PDT by CaliGirl (Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave)
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To: mdittmar

Did it occur to the Dems that a lot of troops don’t want to spend 50% of their active duty stateside? They’re professionals who want to advance their skills in a primo enivironment.


33 posted on 09/20/2007 3:32:10 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: bw17

Hey Harry 11% approval rating for you and W has 29 % . So STFU !


34 posted on 09/20/2007 3:44:19 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: mdittmar
Harry Reid...just one more misguided loudmouth in a long string of

Egressive Democrats

Truman, 1949: "Let's get out of Korea."
McGovern, 1972: "Let's get out of Vietnam."
Reid, 2007: "Let's get out of Iraq."

35 posted on 09/20/2007 4:45:36 AM PDT by syriacus (30,000 Americans died in Korea in 30 months, BECAUSE Truman had withdrawn TOO many troops, TOO soon)
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To: mdittmar

Harry Reid’s next proposals to “protect” the troops will be to replace their rifles with broomsticks and humvees with tricycles so that they can’t hurt themselves.


36 posted on 09/20/2007 6:54:33 AM PDT by mak5
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