House Democrats reaffirm anti-war stance during conference call with Pelosi
Examiner.com ^ | 8/24/07 | Susan Ferrechio
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WASHINGTON - House Democrats returning from the August recess plan to press ahead with legislation to end the war in Iraq, despite some evidence that the recent troop surge is succeeding.
About 100 lawmakers reaffirmed their anti-war position in a conference call Thursday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. The House reconvenes Sept. 4.
The main sentiment expressed by the members, according to one participant, was, “We need to move forward on this.”
Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly, who said Democrats are busy working out the details of their agenda, could not describe specific bills.
“We will have hearings and we will have legislation on Iraq” in the first two weeks of September, Daly said.
For months, Democrats have pointed to September as the time when they would step up their efforts to try to pull the plug on funding for the war, in part because war-weary Republicans have given Bush the same deadline for showing some success in restoring order in the country.
In recent days, however, a few Democrats have indicated they believe the troop surge is working and have questioned forcing a hasty withdrawal.
But that trickle of support has apparently done nothing to slow the tidal wave of opposition to the war among most House Democrats, who believe that military progress has been mixed at best and who point out that the Iraqi government has missed most of the political and economic benchmarks set by the Bush administration.
House Republicans charge that the Democrats are more concerned with domestic politics than with the situation on the ground in Iraq.
“The extent to which Democratic leaders are beholden to the extreme left is positively breathtaking,” said Kevin Smith, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.
In addition to Iraq legislation, House Democrats in September will introduce a bill reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, parts of which Pelosi and others in her party consider an “unacceptable” infringement of civil liberties. Just before the House recessed for August, it approved a temporary bill at the behest of President Bush that granted the administration wide-ranging eavesdropping powers.
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This is outrageous how low the Democrats will go to try and ensure America's defeat, and the eventual victory for the terrorists.
They don't care if things are getting better. They only care about getting elected, and they have hitched their wagon to the defeat of America.
Here is a letter from the former Prime Minister of Cambodia, just after America cut and ran from Vietnam:
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Dear Excellency and Friend:
I thank you very sincerely for your letter and for your offer to transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion. As for you, and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty. You have refused us your protection, and we can do nothing about it. You leave, and my wish is that you and your country will find happiness under this sky. But, mark it well, that if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is no matter, because we all are born and must die. I have only committed this mistake of believing in you [the Americans].
Please accept, Excellency and dear friend, my faithful and friendly sentiments.
S/Sirik Matak
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The Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh a few days later. Sirik Matak was executed: shot in the stomach, he was left without medical help and took three days to die. Between 1 and 2 million Cambodians were murdered by the Khmer Rouge in the next three years. Next door, tens of thousands of Vietnamese were killed, and many more imprisoned. Hundreds of thousands braved the South China Sea to reach freedom.
Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.