Democrats Push to Slow Vote on U.S. Force in Iraq

Reuters via NYTimes.com ^ | 9/13/02

[dsutah]

What about last year, huh? Three thousand innocent people killed on our own land. If that's not war, what is it then? By going in and infiltrating, taking our jets and slamming into our buildings and killing ours and other countries' people, weren't they starting a war? These people were innocent too! Don't their injuries and deaths mean anything, as well as innocents in Iraq?

I too hate to see innocents in other countries get hit. But if Saddam/Bin Laden/etc.. don't care enough about their own people that they don't see fit to provide for their safety before starting a war with us, then it's not our fault!

We can always grieve for them, pray for them, help them in the aftermath if we can, but their safety and well being is his/their responsibility, and they have not ever abided by that! And they darned sure never cared two pins for the innocent people they hurt and killed here, or other countries, have they? No, instead they have 'celebrated'.

[mwl1]

Bush will give a televised address to a joint session of Congress by the end of September, in fact, I am guessing as early as the week of Sept 23. The House will act promptly and send the matter to the Senate. I cannot fathom how Daschle creates an escape hatch for himself by obstructing or killing such a resolution.

Can you imagine the commercials in key Senate races: "Paul Wellstone (insert all incumbent RATs) chose partisan politics over the well-being and safety of our young men and women in uniform in a time of war."

We set up the battle not between RATS and Bush, but rather between RATS and our military personnel. RATS cannot win that fight, and for the life of me I cannot understand Daschle's strategy to date. It is suicidal.

[peekaboo]

I saw the old fool Byrd on the senate floor yesterday also. He was so red in the face at times, I thought he was going to have a stroke. His speech was even slurred at times. He kept remarking that he promised the dem whip, Reid who had to leave for home earlier, that he Byrd, would shut the senate down after he finished his speech, which he was never able to deliver because everyone else had to go home.

But, the best part of the afternoon was when Senator Session appeared and asked to speak, Byrd, after some dikering said that he would allow Sessions to speak only to Byrds questions. I love to watch Senator Sessions, he is such a fine southern gentleman, who knew how to get to Byrds jugglar. He asked Byrd would he not agree to have a full debate over the Irag situation. Sessions remarked in his statements, either you are with the president or you are against him. Byrd went ballistics and began his tiraid about "Who is this President? Who elected him? This old senator, he said will not vote on this issue before the election.Eventually, he might, but no president will make him vote on demand on any issue. He ranted on more saying that he will follow the constitution. I have seen this old senator many times on the floor reading his prose and poetry, but this was classic maddness. He finally remarked that his dear wife had had surgery this morning to have her appendix removed and he had not even eaten lunch. (this was about 3:30 PM washington time. I wondered why he was not tending to his dear little wife.

He also began to remark again about how poor he was growing up and when he first married this dear little wife. For a moment, I thought he must have been having a senior moment and thought that Paul O'Neil was going to come forward. He was really taking a hit a Bush for being born in to money. (By the way, I am sick of hearing of how Bush was born into money. No. 41 and Bar were married right after GHWB returned home on leave from the military. He had to borrow 6000.00 form his uncle to get a start on his first business venture after he finished his college days and had tow babies and a wife to care for.) It is time for this angry old fool to leave the senate while he is able to walk. Sessions did get the old fool to agree to debate, but again not vote on the issue until after the election. This election folks is going to get very ugly.