4/29/2007
Oppose Reid
hey reid, maybe you should check with the military instead of guys like john kerry who’ve sold out their country with the enemy before! just remember, harry, you’re walking a slippery slope….as gm roper put it in this post (graphic from gm’s also), quoting from the Review Journal:
Sen. Reid and his colleagues know there is much political hay to be made by criticizing President Bush’s planning and conduct of the post-war occupation. But they also know that while “cut our losses and pull out” plays well in Democratic caucuses, it failed in the Connecticut general election in 2006, when Sen. Joseph Lieberman and his anti-surrender stance handily defeated end-the-war candidate Ned Lamont — even though Sen. Lieberman had to run as an independent to pull it off.
That’s the kind of “poll” that really counts.
Hello All,
A fellow Nevadan and I have created a site where Nevadans and Americans alike can express their disgust with and opposition to Harry Reid.
We oppose his stance on Iraq. We oppose his adverse support of our troops. We oppose his defection to the lunatic wing of the (D) party. And we oppose his betrayal of the will of the people of Nevada.
Please spread the word, post a link, do whatever is in your power to help us get this off the ground.
We are selling bumper stickers and will have in place shortly a process with which you may send flowers to the senator (yellow pansies to be exact). These are the first two of hopefully more campaigns to express the country’s disapproval of Harry Reid.
I have held the belief since my deployment in Desert Storm that “support of the troops is not about the intent, but rather about the effect”. I learned this lesson first hand and I stand by it. As long as our troops’ morale and welfare is adversely effected by the games the (D)s are going to play, we need to stand in very vocal opposition to them.
This also means putting the fire under the butts of our (R) representatives and our President. Right now, they are getting their butts handed to them because they are not vocal and passionate enough about this battle in D.C.
We are losing the PR war at home. This is no longer about Iraq per se, this is about protecting our troops, their mission, and their families from another Vietnam. Are we willing to put this country and our finest men and women through this again?
I think not. And we are going to do our damned-est to see that it doesn’t happen.
Thanks for your time.
Semper Fi,
//jay
aka jcrue
http://opposereid.com
http://jcrue.wordpress.com
New website called “Oppose Reid” pass it on, link to it, mention it in a post. Join the discussion, sign up for the blogroll, and let’s get the initiative off the ground!!!!
Right Voices linked with How Sad When A Liberal Calls The Democrats: “Illiterate” And Willfully, Cynically Blind About Iraq
April 29th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Remember, Harry Reid called the war in Iraq a “quagmire” and compared it to Vietnam. He said it would “drag on” indefinitely, costing billions. He accused the president of failing to specify how long our troops would have to stay, and he urged the administration to withdraw. When “the body bags start coming home,” Reid said, it’s time to cut our losses.
Reid kept going, talking about the need for peace. “The White House has bombed its way around the globe,” he sneered. “International respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the bombs fly.” As for the current war plan, Reid complained that “no one wants us to be there” and that the president’s crusade “has harmed [our] standing in the world.”
And given the climate, I suppose Reid was pushing his luck when he urged Congress to de-fund the war and “pull out the forces we now have in the region.” What’s worse, Reid basically made the United States look like the bad guy. Once a U.S.-led coalition “starts meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign nations, where does it stop?” Reid asked. He charged that we were “starting to resemble a power-hungry imperialist army” and portrayed our mission as an “occupation by foreigners.”
Are all of these comments harsh? Do they undermine the troops while they’re in harm’s way? Do they amount, literally, to “treason”?
April 29th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
He wouldn’t have been able to get away with it during WWII, that’s for sure.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Cao, too too funny. I had to steal the video and put it on my blog (and thanks for the link by the way and the use of my graphic). Plus, I added this sentence: “Why Harry, you look so …. well, …. that is, … well, so FWENCH!”
May 1st, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Nate, you also might ask Harry to ask Clinton how long troops will stay in the former Yugoslavia…
May 1st, 2007 at 4:22 pm
GM Roper — nice to see you posting again; I hope you’re doing far better than you were a year ago!
May 1st, 2007 at 6:52 pm
SSgt Yatahey, thank you kind sir for remembering me. You put a smile on my face.
Totally cancer free as of this date, what tomorrow brings I’ll worry about tomorrow.
Cao, reason I dropped by is that our friend Nate (and I’m not sure what point he is trying to make) copied and pasted his above comment on my blog. How funny!
May 1st, 2007 at 8:07 pm
They seem to be unable to come up with original thoughts, don’t they? So they have it in a word document or a text document and just cut and paste them in their travels on the internet.
Thanks for dropping in, GM, and also thanks for the reminder to credit you with the graphic - it’s priceless….
May 1st, 2007 at 8:22 pm
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May 2nd, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Cao…
I’m new to blog comments, and I am very sorry if I have violated some norm. I was very excited to find news of the Oppose Reid site on both your site and GM Roper’s.
I’m just really trying to find out if those statements I quoted are actually treason.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:34 pm
GM Roper — are you kidding me … how could I forget one of GOD’s Warriors, such as you?
I may not be in your same league, but I’ve always highly respected you!
Semper Fi — May GOD continue to bless you and your family, as I’m soooo happy to hear you’re cancer-free … isn’t it great to have GOD’s blessings?
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Hi, Nate, if you’re going to leave comments and want to be taken seriously, you should probably alter the verbiage so it doesn’t seem as though it’s something you’re copying and pasting everywhere where you see the same thing.
Treason isn’t taken seriously anymore, look at John Kerry and his buddies…Nancy Pelosi meeting with Assad in Syria violated the Logan Act, but to my knowledge nobody’s pursuing it…
Criminals are running rampant, you can say anything to bash the President and nobody blinks, even though he is still our President, we’re a nation at war, and he’s still the leader of the free world.
It’s upsetting…it really is. None of this would have taken place during WWI or II. There was censorship, everybody knew about it, and understood the reason why. People sacrificed for the war effort. Today the average person lives as if there is no war, and the average person doesn’t know much about the military, just like the journalists who are commenting on it.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:08 pm
I’ll keep that advice in mind, Cao. So you’re saying, then, that those comments I quoted do rise to the level of treason? I’m really confused about this.
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Nate, whether or not they rise to treason is for the justice department to figure out. If you are a constitutional lawyer etc and have lot’s of experience in this area than you can make a conjecture, but we are bloggers, we have a feeling, we have a responsibility to ourselves to make a call as we see it. Treason? I don’t know. Stupid, dumb, idiotic, assinine, irresponsible, juvenile, lacking in honesty, stupid (oh, wait, I said that already didn’t I)and a power play for partisanship’s sake… damn betcha it is. So, Nate, do YOU think it’s treason?
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
SSgt Yatahey, you, not in my league? Sir, you can blister the back of any twit with absolutely the best of them and I’m damn glad you are on our side…. (Oh, and my post isn’t what you think it is… go back and read all the way to the bottom… the first part is the BAIT… heh!
May 4th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
GM, meatbrain came into comments to say those were the words of Tom DeLay during the Kosovo conflict.
I don’t like how he lies and uses the words of other people to try and lay a trap, for a ‘gotcha’ moment.
Meatbrain, blow it out your ***, I’m not publishing your comments and if Nate is you, or one of your lackies, Nate is banned also.
Either represent yourself and your comments honestly, or go pray to STFU.
Meatbrain, how does your wife feel about your pursuing 17-year old boys for verbal and mental abuse????
May 4th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Actually the comparison to funding our troops and funding NATO and the UN peacekeepers is disingenuous at best.
“Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt,” says House Majority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas.
And that is true, too - the UN and NATO do not belong in the fight, one thing I hate about the Iraq war is how it legitimized the UN when it is a farce and even more incompetent than our overgrown government has become.
NATO is pretty incompetent, too, take a look at how well they’ve done since they took control in Afghanistan. They don’t belong there, they have no experience in Afghanistan.
I don’t believe anyone would argue with the fact that Clinton reduced the size of our military by 40% - we’re still seeing the effects of that with the base closures, and now when we need to defend ourselves, our already thinned out military is stretched even thinner.
GET RID OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS and BEEF UP THE WAR DEPARTMENT
Taking cherry-picked comments from Delay, portraying them as though they’re coming from Reid for a gotcha moment won’t cut it here, meatbrain, go pound sand. Kosovo and Iraq aren’t the same conflict…and they’re not comparable.
The supplemental during that period of time provided “emergency supplemental appropriations for military operations, refugee relief, and humanitarian assistance relating to the conflict in Kosovo, and for military operations in Southwest Asia for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999,” then-House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Young (R-Florida) said. Pelosi added aid for Hurricaine relief and a republican added money for farmers.
But the point is, the Republicans added to the bill primarily to help the troops, not to add pork.
GOP add-ons to the president’s request include money for a military pay and pension increase, recruitment, readiness training, spare parts, base operations and a billion dollars in military construction for overseas projects (CNN 1999)