Redefining the Mission?
According to this AP article, Susan Collins is co-sponsoring a bill with Ben Nelson to change the mission in Iraq:
Also being drafted are several Republican-backed proposals that would force a new course in Iraq, including one by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Ben Nelson, D-Neb., that would require U.S. troops to abandon combat missions. Collins and Nelson say their binding amendment would order the U.S. mission to focus on training the Iraqi security forces, targeting al-Qaida members and protecting Iraq’s borders.
“My goal is to redefine the mission and set the stage for a significant but gradual drawdown of our troops next year,” said Collins.
I hate telling Sen. Collins this but OAR is “targeting al-Qa’ida members.” Here’s something from a CNN article on that very subject:
An operation west of Baghdad on Thursday focused on a cell making roadside bombs. Coalition forces killed one person and wounded another, the statement said. Three suspected were detained.
Coalition forces detained another suspected al Qaeda terrorist in a separate raid in the Tarmiya area Thursday.
“We’re continuing to target all levels of the al Qaeda in Iraq organization and are disrupting both their leadership structure and operations,” said U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver.
In raids Wednesday, forces captured a man suspected of being the al Qaeda in Iraq administrative emir for a Baghdad neighborhood. He is thought to handle logistics and financing for terrorist cells in the area. Three people believed to be his associates were also detained.
Forgive me if I don’t understand why senators like Collins, Gregg, Domenici, Warner, Alexander, Lugar, Bennett, Sununu and Voinovich don’t get it. It’s like Harry Reid and John Murtha hypnotized them and gave them a defeatist attitude. They should know better than that.
GOP support for the war has eroded steadily since Bush’s decision in January to send some 30,000 additional troops to Iraq. At the time, Bush said the Iraqis agreed to meet certain benchmarks, such as enacting a law to divide the nation’s oil reserves.
TRANSLATION: GOP support for the war has eroded since the Agenda Media and the Defeatocrats started a nonstop, fact-free, defeatist anti-war campaign.
I’m not giving these GOP wobblies a pass; I’m just placing a substantial part of the blame where it rightfully belongs: on the Defeatocrats and their Agenda Media allies.
In addition to contacting these senators, I’d also recommend contacting the White House to tell them that we’ve got their backs on fighting for victory. We can’t leave any stone unturned or any option ignored. Defeating AQI and Sadr’s militia while stabilizing Iraq is just too important.
Here’s another important consideration:
Iran is pulling the strings in Iraq. Only a weak-minded person would believe that we have no choice but to retreat in this war. Iranian arms, resources, and military personnel have been found in Iraq. They are actively at war with us, do we need more burning buildings to realize this?
And now there is a report of Chinese weapons in Iraq that hits the wires. then add to that the news that 45 Muslim doctors were planning to carry out similar operations in the US, that had just been attempted in the UK.
Wake up Senators. There is no losing this war. there is no ending it on YOUR terms. We must defeat evil, however we have to so that our country can remain safe. Just because the Iraqi government is not running as seamlessly [snicker] as ours, does not remove the fact that we’re engaged in a global war. If we leave Iraq, Iran and al Qaida will take it over and use it as a staging ground for their goal, world domination.
That’s the best summarization I’ve read about what’s at stake in Iraq.
Technorati Tags: Susan Collins, Ben Nelson, Harry Reid, John Murtha, John Warner, Richard Lugar, Robert Bennett, John Sununu, Judd Gregg, Defeatocrats
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
July 9th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
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July 10th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Just another over bearing bitch that should be flipping burgers not making public policy.
July 10th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
I am amazed that the weapons they are finding aren’t American, from the ones that Reagan sold the Iranians in the ’80s. He sold Iran weapons so that there was money to fight his little war with peasants in Nicaragua. This country has its head up a dark passage when it comes to foreign policy. No wonder the world hates us, we are the most 2 faced bastards in the world. Also, our American oil companies continue to do business with Iran as usual. If they are SO dangerous why are we refining their oil?