DFL Tracks Coleman’s Flip-Flops on Surge, Support for President’s War Plan

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• Chris

  September 10, 2007 at 6:13 pm

  I couldn’t help but notice you’re calling General Petreaus’ report the Bush report. Are you attacking his military service by claiming that the White House wrote the report for him? If so, you’re just as bad as the MoveOn people who called him General Betray-Us in the New York Times today. The attacks on our military and the people serving our country are truly pathetic and I hope this site is not lowering itself into the gutter with MoveOn and the like.

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• White

  September 13, 2007 at 3:05 pm

  Two soldiers who wrote of their pessimism about the war in an Op-Ed article that appeared in The New York Times on Aug. 19, were killed in Baghdad on Monday, September 10, 2007. They were not killed in combat, nor on a daring mission. They died when the five-ton cargo truck in which they were riding overturned. The victims, Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray, 26, and Sgt. Omar Mora, 28, were among the authors of “The War as We Saw It,” in which they expressed doubts about reports of progress. Another one was Staff Sgt. Jeremy A. Murphy, who was shot in the head. He was flown to a military hospital in the U.S. and is expected to survive. “As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day,” the soldiers wrote.

  This reminds me of the rescue story of Pfc. Jessica Lynch, which Col. Pat Tillman was involved with and which Jessica later admitted was staged propaganda. Pat Tillman, who was killed with friendly fire (three shots to the head at close range) was set to stage an interview with Noam Chomsky to speak out against the war, and existing members of Jessica’s “rescue team” have since been dying off. I have also read of medical troops killed shortly after they expressed their views about not necessarily believing in the war, but having a deep desire to treat the injured Iraqi people as well as the troops.

  Should it seem coincidental that many of these troops who say anything that might be construed as “against the war” are being killed or injured afterwards? In light of peaceful protesters getting arrested here in this country, one them being a reverend whose only crime was wearing a button on his lapel with a peaceful statement while standing in line to get into a congressional hearing on Iraq, it appears that we’ve lost our freedom of speech altogether. He was tackled from the back by a Washington D.C. police officer after telling them that he was just standing in line and meant no harm. He was injured and taken to a hospital and after he recovers, he will be sent to jail. What brand of democracy are we trying to establish in Iraq?

  Warmongers can shout all they want and believe that we’re “winning” this tribal war with our occupation and keeping America safe, but it has little relevance with statistics (75% of Iraq’s want us to leave; 70% of Americans want us out of Iraq; most Americans feel less safe) or the lives of our wonderful and brave soldiers whom we appreciate, love and pray for every day. It has everything to do with the Bush and Cheney lies. Iraq war profiteering is making billions for their friends, Halliburton, Bechtel, Kellogg Brown and Root, to name a few of the most egregious. Most of that money is not going towards the reconstruction of Iraq, let alone the protection of our troops.

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• Kerosene Hat

  September 13, 2007 at 5:40 pm

  Since Petreaus takes his orders from Bush what is the difference between calling it the Bush or the Petreaus report? Does anybody think that the General would disobey a directive from the President?

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• Lee Mentley

  September 13, 2007 at 9:33 pm

  Dear Editor: An Open Letter to Congressional Leaders

  Bush Speaks With Forked Tongue:

  The most anti American impeachable administration in the history of the United Sates of America speaks again with a forked tongue…!

  Dear Leaders of the Legislators, the Occupant of the White House, has sent up one liar and law breaker after another to disassemble the Congress, confuse and divide the American public, rob our treasury, kill our children and commit genocide world wide. Bush has even given these liars and law breakers Medals of Freedom…? Bush has Betrayed Us All…! What are you going to do about it…?

  Under illegal signing statements, unconstitutional and immoral declarations, Bush’s rouse has caused the American Middle Class to fall into unprecedented bankruptcy as the children of the American poor have lost their loved ones on the bloody fields of his twisted colonial corporate agenda in the Middle East. Yet it is the House and the House alone that initiates all appropriations bills and has the authority to take our nation into war and has the power to stop this madness. What are you going to do Madame Speaker…?

  I suggest it is time for the Leaders of the Legislative Branch to listen to Admiral William Fallon, Deputy Attorney General Bruce Fein and the American’s who elected this Legislature to stop this endless war. We must not send one more American hero or spend one more dime for this military industrial complex’s rampage into Iraq or Iran nor on to the streets or into our homes under the traitorous Bush Military Commissions Act.

  The only funds that need to be made available are to bring our entire honorable troop’s home where they belong and to clean up the criminal mess that this horrid administration has wrecked on our beloved nation…!

  Lee Mentley
  Los Angeles, CA 90022
   213-880-7282

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