Military Mom Confronts Congressman Obey in the Hallway

WHAT ELSE IS NEW ABOUT THESE LIBERAL PINKOS !

deal with the facts honestly? Why stage a confrontation to set up a great representative like David Obey? I know why, because you don't really care so much about honoring an obligation to get those troops safely out of the war, rather, this is like some half cocked video game where life is cheap, because you lack skin in the game.

Rep. Obey explained the very real facts of the matter. You all know for example why we need supplemental funds to properly house our out patient wounded Iraq war vets.. building 19 was allowed to happen because Bush and the right wing that controlled congress gutted the funding, they have Walter Reed closing so they can have more money to line Halliburton's pockets.

It was widely reported that supplemental funding was needed to provide decent housing after the debacle was exposed. You all know that Bush and the right wing controlled congress long underfunded our troops, and while the democrats who just took control are dealing with many, many issues, including extracating us from this unjust war, you decide to play a game so corrupt it is offensive to any decent, caring human being. It is also based on the same type of lies that brought us into this war, and for the same reason, a blind, and corrupting lust for power and control.

Don't pretend to give a damn about our troops... because it's plain to see that you share the same disrespect and desire to exploit them as Bush.

You idiots, you treasonous morons think that attacking Mr Bush is better than winning the war on terror.
Iraq was a terror state under saddam, so the battlefield of Iraq is a just portion of the conflict (gloal jihadism being the enemy to those not too stoned to pay any attention at all for the last thirty years).
Rather than impeaching the president, how about round up the liberals and slay the crap out of them?

where were you idiots when clinton bombed iraq with 450 cruise missiles and our planes were being attacked daily for patrolling a UN approved "no fly zone"? The UN oil for food scandal was going on right under clinton's nose and he didn't do ANYTHING!!!!!!

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they get a trillion each year from our income tax also so funding should not be more that fifty times a year lol

I'd wager vastly more human beings will die if we leave Iraq than will die if we stay. If by "human beings" you're strictly referring to U.S. soldiers, then say so.

Does anyone really believe the Sunnis and Shiites will stop killing each other if the U.S. leaves? Best case scenario if the U.S. leaves prematurely: genocide. Worst case scenario: genocide plus a regional war.

Ask yourselves: who is causing the loss of innocent life (i.e. Iraqi civilians)? Here's a hint: U.S. soldiers aren't the ones setting off car bombs in crowded markets.

Anon: you actually think that Obey doesnt owe any time to a citizen/mother of a military person who is DIRECTLY affected by the inability to act displayed by our Congress. We pay their salaries and they do owe each of us the time to be heard. Many Americans really thought that by changing the balance of power in Congress this obscene, immoral and illegal war would be brought to a swift end. For Rep Obey to say they "havent got the votes" to defund or to block the Supplemental is just a smokescreen. All they have to do is have fifty percent plus one person to vote AGAINST the bill. Why not force a vote? Are they all such cowards that they cannot speak Truth to Power?

I hope Congressman Obey apologizes to her someday. I don't think he meant the remarks and that it was displaced anger. I think he is mad as hell at Bushco and was venting in the hallway to Tina because she represents Congressman Obey's powerlessness to help her son. I hope we can get all the Congresspeople who really CARE in one room someday and ask them to do everything humanly possible to be a cohesive team to STOP this madness and bring all our soldiers home NOW.

IMPEACH BUSHCO & RICO PNAC/AIPAC > "OUT" THE ANTI-AMERICAN CABALS !

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That's how he is to everyone. He's gruff.

I don't know Obey, but if cares, it must be so much more frustrating to have the people he wants to protect jumping on him. He's right... The Pentagon and Bush have the connections to turn this into an illegal war if they wanted too. Obey seems frustrated that these 2 constituents think that the issues are really so simple. Unfortunately, they are not. Legality and due course of action has nothing to do with it,.

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No one responds to foolimentarianisms here, (except me, of course, to tell you that no one is responding).

Dear Anonymous:

Reread your copy of the constitution, and take a quick detailed skim of a decent US history text. The Congress of the United States has the power to create and maintain armies, the power to fund armies, the power to set military policy, the sole authority to declare war, and has historically exercised the rightful power to end war. As the Iraq war was authorized under false pretenses and as it is undeniably unwinnable without a troop presence that is absolutely unacceptable to the American public,(see Draft or first year level of successful occupation of Germany and Japan i.e. 1 million foot soldiers on the ground each) ending the war through a Congressional resolution to rescind the president's authorization is not only constitutional but the ethically sensible and responsible thing to do. Try to think a little more critically before you just buy into whatever Rush tells you.

“Anonymous” says that US troops should stay in Iraq because if they withdraw, Sunnis and Shiites will kill each other even more than they are doing now. That argument is analogous to a rapist’s argument that he must continue raping his victim, because the moment he lets go of her, she is liable to do something self-destructive in her distressed state. "Anonymous" says that fewer Iraqis are being murdered under US occupation than were being murdered under Saddam Hussein's regime. That is not true, but even if it were, “Anonymous’” argument is analogous to that of a rapist who justifies his crime by saying that his victim is suffering less from his rape than from that of her previous rapist because her previous rapist’s penis is bigger than his. The USA's responsibility to Iraq is identical to a rapist's responsibility to his victim. The only way a rapist can help his victim is by going away and leaving her alone, surrendering to the authorities, then paying her any compensation that may be ordered by a court of law. It is for the justice system to decide what compensation a rapist should give his victim; it is not for the rapist to decide.

Mark Marshall
Toronto

How is this war immoral?

If you are actually asking that question, you have been so lobotomized by the Bush administration, and by Fox News and whatever other propagandists have been brainwashing you, that it's not worth the time to even try to argue with you.

If you don't understand how a war based on lies, a "vanity war" for Bush, a war whose only reason for existing is to take YOUR MONEY and line the pockets of contractors and other pirates, then, well, you fucking deserve to have your money stolen.

How is this war immoral? I can't believe I share citizenship with somebody so goddamn stupid they would ask that question.;

Good God you should really find some other country to live in if you're asking that question. You obviously do not deserve to live in the country that MY forefathers fought and died for.