The Policy Of Victory
Funny. “I was FOR the surge before I was AGAINST the surge”.
Who do you think would say something like that? Ok, not verbatim. But he, along with his cohorts in the Democrat party may well have just said that:
For many in the Senate, they were for a surge of troops in Iraq before they were against it.
“We don’t have enough troops in Iraq,” Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, said in 2005.
In 2004, he told NBC’s Tim Russert some things he believes “very deeply.”
“Number one, we cannot fail,” Mr. Kerry said. “I’ve said that many times. And if it requires more troops in order to create the stability that eliminates the chaos, that can provide the groundwork for other countries, that’s what we have to do.”
He no longer believes that now. He is among at least a dozen Democratic senators who in the past have called for more troops in Iraq but now support a resolution condemning President Bush’s plan to do just that. Many Republicans who voted for the war now plan to support a no-confidence resolution, including Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, who in the past had warned that the war would be a long, tough slog and that Americans should “speak with one voice.”
The Senate will begin debating that resolution—or variations on it—this week, perhaps as early as today.
The Senate did indeed begin debating the resolution this morning and Sen. DeMint was one of the first to get up and speak, and boy did he do a good job:
Perfect!
“This resolution is a resolution of defeat and disgrace”
I will remind you to email and fax the following Republicans who are sponsoring or supporting this resolution of defeat:
Washington, D.C. Office
248 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel: (202) 224-4224
Fax: (202) 224-5213
Senator Warner
Washington Office
225 Russell Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Telephone:
(202) 224-2023
(202) 224-6295 FAX
DC Office:
461 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Main: (202) 224-2523
Fax: (202) 224-2693
Washington, DC Office
404 Russell Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202.224.3753
Fax: 202.228.3997
Washington, D.C.
303 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-6521
Fax: (202) 228-1265
UPDATE:
Sen Cornyn had a five minute speech in which he read from Lt. Daily’s words on his MySpace page:
Crossposted from Flopping Aces
