There are two candidates in the running for House Majority Leader this Thursday, and they are both fine men. However, by his strong stand on reploying our troops out of Iraq, and by doing so at a time when many others were just going along with the Bush administration's stay the atrocities policy, John Murtha has earned the right to be selected for this position. Simply put, John Murtha deserves to be leader because of his LEADERSHIP.
John Murtha has stood up for us with courage on this issue. That's all we care about. Now it's time for us to stand up for him.
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Earlier in the election campaign, the PEN advocated that the Dems dump Nelson of Nebraska and Sherrod Brown in favor of military people just returned from Iraq. Besides the oddness of a peace group advocating the election of a claque of veterans, the PEN was wrong in their political judgements.
This article is typical of them. To take a strong political stance unrelated to reality. Who is the other prominent person in politics who operates this way?
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rob Chapman (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 9 comments)
on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 4:27:26 PM
At no time have we ever advocated abolishing the military. But we must at least constrain those bent on aggressive and preemptive war. In other words, the military should be used to KEEP the peace as opposed to precipitate war.
Indeed, who better appreciates the horror of war, and the imperative to avoid it if reasonably possible, than veterans? It is precisely because all members of the Bush cabal ducked their own military obligations that they so blithely send other people's children to the slaughter.
But of course, you have your own posting rights on this site, Rob. So you are free to post your own OPINION, as opposed to commenting on our work by telling people not to listen to ours.
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thepen (109 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 11 comments)
on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 5:34:51 PM
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