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I’ve long known that John Murtha’s arrogance knows no bounds. Still, this article surprised me in its stupidity. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Murtha Must GO. Here’s what I read that infuriated me:

For example, Murtha said, funding could be manipulated to close the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where accused terrorists have been held indefinitely; to limit overall troop levels in Iraq; and to require that troops be properly trained and equipped before being shipped overseas. “We’ve got some specifics that we can do to change the course of the war,” Murtha said.

The first thing I thought after reading this is: I hope that Diana Irey is running again in 2008. the second thing I thought was how much I’d love shipping the Gitmo ‘detainees’ to live with the Murthas. Seriously, it’s impossible for me to take this jackass seriously. How can I when he’s ready to introduce legislation that would close Gitmo without providing an alternative place for the terrorists to be held? Further, the old fart wants to limit the President’s warfighting options without cutting off funding entirely. You’d think that that’s of suspect constitutionality:

Rep. C.W. Bill Young, R-Indian Shores, said he has no problem with holding a debate on a resolution critical of the troop surge, but he was wary of legislative efforts to micromanage the war. “I don’t believe Congress can effectively manage a battle,” Young said.

There’s a reason why the Constitution spells out the position of Commander-in-Chief. It doesn’t spell out a position called Commanders-in-Chief. I’d have to think that, constitutionally, it’s one thing to cut off funding for the war. It’s another to legislate the things a sitting president must do before sending troops to fight an authorized war.

The good news is that the Senate won’t let this pass. If nothing else, Republicans will filibuster such legislation.

People who stayed home last November need to think long and hard about their actions. Their inaction has led to Murtha having this position of influence. Their staying home in 2008 would endanger us all. That’s unacceptable. It’s time that conservatives realized that they need to vote for candidates that will try to keep America safe. If the thought of Murtha running roughshod isn’t enough to scare you, then perhaps this story will:

To the surprise of the Bush administration, the House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously Wednesday night to allow all 435 House members to see the classified version of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq sent to the White House last week. The report is classified in part because it contains information about sources and methods used in intelligence-gathering.

I’d hope that the White House would challenge the constitutionality of such a vote. After all, it’s the Executive branch that can make documents available except to those with the proper security clearances.

What’s to say that a representative could view the information, then leak the information to the press? Remember that some of the people who will be looking at this classified report are John Conyers, Baghdad Jim McDermott, Keith Ellison, Maurice Hinchey and Maxine Waters.

Does anyone think that some of this NIE won’t get leaked or shared with subversives? Are people naive enough to think that some of this information won’t make it into CAIR’s hands? If it makes it into CAIR’s hands, it’s a given that it’ll make its way into others’ hands.

If you think that scares you, it gets worse:

Remarkably, each House member will be given five minutes to speak.

Five minutes to speak is a bunch of time, especially since the classified portion of the NIE contains sources and methods used in collecting intelligence.

Silvestre Reyes delivered this pronouncement justifying the opening of the NIE:

“It is critical that all Members of Congress understand the consensus view of the Intelligence Community on the gravity of the situation in Iraq and the consequences for U.S. troops and our long-term national security interests.”

Representative Reyes, It isn’t important that every blabbermouth congressman knows the sources and methods used to compile the NIE. There’s a reason why there’s different levels of security clearances for different representatives. You can color it any way you want but that’s reality.

This is a prime example of what happens when Democrats deal with national security issues. They put together a meaningless resolution that criticizes the president. Then they give blabbermouth representatives the right to view documents that they don’t have the security clearance for. Then they tell the people who’ve viewed the sources and methods that they can each talk for five minutes on the resolution.

Conservatives who stayed home last time better know that they’ve helped put us in this compromised national security situation. It’s unacceptable for them to wash their hands and say that Democrats are the only ones to blame. If they hadn’t cast protest votes, we wouldn’t have a Speaker Pelosi or Chairman Reyes and we certainly wouldn’t have had blabbermouth congressmen and women viewing the sources and methods that were used to compile the NIE.

That said, Democrats deserve the lion’s share of the blame on this. Their actions have potentially compromised our national security by potentially compromising our agents in the field.

I ask my readers a simple question: Is that the type of America you want to live in? If you don’t, then it’s time to fire up everyone you know to make national security the only issue of importance in 2008.

If we don’t get this right, the rest is irrelevant.

Technorati Tags: National Security, NIE, John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, Keith Ellison, Jim McDermott, Intel, CAIR

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Friday, February 9th, 2007 at 1:28 pm and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, CAIR, Corruption, Election 2008, Intel, Iraq, Liberals, Media, Military, Pelosi, Subversives, Terrorism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.