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Swift Boat Vet supports Duncan Hunter
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A Naval veteran who co-founded the group “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” says he will do whatever he can to help Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-California) become the next president of the United States.
John O’Neill, a co-founder and member of the group, says in 2008 he is campaigning for another Vietnam veteran who is running for the Oval Office — Representative Duncan Hunter.

“He is a Vietnam veteran who I can really be proud of,” says O’Neill. “I’m really happy to be able to be for someone instead of just being against someone. I’m going to do everything I can to try and help him out.” And so are many of the people in the Swift Boat Veterans group, he adds, clarifying that they are doing so as individuals and not on behalf of the group.

O’Neill says he recognizes that the California lawmaker is a long shot, but so were the Swift Boat vets when they organized to stop Kerry in 2004. “The long-shot causes are always the causes most worth fighting for,” he says. “That’s what I believe in — so I think he has a chance; and that’s who I’m for.”

John O’Neill audio link

Now this on Duncan Hunter…………
Pro-National Defense……….. check
Pro-Border Security…………. check
Pro-Small government………. check
Pro-Low Taxes……………….. check
Pro-1st amendment………….. check
Pro-2nd amendment…………. check
Staunchly Pro-life…………….. check
Opposes “gay marriage” …… check
Is a patriot and veteran……… check
Conservative voting record… check

Wild Thing’s comment………
Awesome. A real hero supporting a real hero. This will make Duncan Hunter a target of the libs who see the SBVT as the spawn of the devil. But they hate anyone that is good anyway.
I would love to see him do well.

Evidence of his guilt solid.

Boos For Hiss
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National Security: Leftist academics are determined to rehabilitate the reputation of Alger Hiss, the high-level U.S. diplomat and Soviet spy. Time may have passed, but this case was settled a long time ago.
Was Soviet communism a malevolent global force committed to conquering the world, with Kremlin spies reaching top levels in the U.S. government? Or was it “just another system” used to whip up Red hysteria and McCarthyism?
Leftists here and in Europe scoffed at Ronald Reagan when he called the Soviets an evil empire, but he was vindicated by communism’s collapse. Similarly, the American left began its vendetta against Richard Nixon when in 1948 he exposed the high-ranking State Department official Hiss as a Russian agent; Nixon too was vindicated when the so-called Venona communications from the Soviet archives were opened in 1995, incriminating Hiss.
Last week, New York University’s Center for the United States and the Cold War held a conference in which a Russian historian, who supposedly has scoured the Kremlin’s records, found nothing implicating Hiss.
But while both Hiss’ son and former Nation editor and Hiss supporter Victor Navasky both spoke, scholars who accept Hiss’ clear guilt were strangely absent.

NYU’s new center has also tried to reopen the Rosenbergs nuclear spying case and has glorified Americans who fought for the left in the Spanish Civil War. This is clearly one “Center” not a bit “for the United States.”

The evidence against Hiss is overwhelming:
• Reformed communist spy Whittaker Chambers, who spied with Hiss, produced the “Pumpkin Papers” of State Department documents from the late 1930s that only Hiss had access to, all typed on Hiss’ typewriter.
• A March 30, 1945, communique from the USSR’s Washington spy chief to Moscow reports that agent “ALES” is attending the post-war Yalta conference, then traveling to Moscow. As adviser to Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Hiss did exactly that. Former National Security Agency analyst John Schindler calls the evidence of the identity of ALES as Hiss “exceptionally solid.”
• The late Democratic Sen. Pat Moynihan, who chaired a panel on government secrecy in the 1990s, said the U.S. government “had conclusive evidence of his guilt, but they never told.”
Serious academics know Hiss’ guilt from the evidence. Left-wing activists posing as scholars want to reopen the case for one reason: to discredit the U.S. Shame on them.

Wild Thing’s comment………
With the lefties, 1 + 1 will always = 0. Evidence be damned, they just feel that they are right.
For contemptable ,despicable liberal commies,America is an unjust society, and all its wars are also unjust by virtue of that fact alone. Leftists never give up trying to re-write history. They just love hating America and teaching that to their students.

Reid: Bush must learn to compromise on Iraq
RENO, Nev. (The Las Vegas Sun AP) – President Bush would be to blame, not the Democrat-controlled Congress, if he vetoes a supplemental spending bill for U.S. troops because he has rejected repeated invitations to discuss a compromise, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.

“I’m a legislator, I know how to compromise. He doesn’t. That’s what he’s got to learn,” Reid, D-Nev., told The Associated Press.

“Compromise is not a bad word. I think it’s been real hard for him to understand he can’t do what he did before we had a new Congress in town,” Reid said. “He’s going to have to learn to deal with it.”

Reid made the remarks after he met with a mixed reception at a veterans hospital where he took his plea for troop withdrawals by next fall and called the war in Iraq the “worst foreign policy blunder” in U.S. history.

“The training wheels have to come off and Iraq has got to police it’s own civil war. We should not be policing a civil war,” Reid told about 80 veterans, doctors and others at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Reno.

“People say if we leave Iraq it’s going to be chaos,” he said. “It’s chaos right now. So whenever we leave, whether it is six days from now or six months from now – we know we’ll be out of there in 20 months because that is when Bush is out of office – it is going to be chaos.”

Two of the half-dozen or more skeptics in the audience offered pointed criticism of Reid, including one who said the senator’s “irresponsible statements” are undermining U.S. troops.

“You are using this as a political football. It’s not acceptable,” said John Edwards, a veteran and member of a local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, whose national organization has called for Congress to approve funding for the Iraq war without what it called “an arbitrary withdrawal timeline.”

Reid said he agrees the nation must make sure U.S. troops have “not died in vain in Iraq.”

“Conversely, we have to tell it how it is. We can’t paint a picture that doesn’t exist,” he said.

“Before we invaded, there was not a single terrorist in Iraq. I recognize Saddam Hussein was an evil man and I’m glad he’s gone. But invading Iraq did not help the situation. It made it worse.”

Reid said earlier he will propose legislation to cut off funds for combat operations, and provide money for only three missions: targeted counterterrorism operations, training and equipping the Iraqi security forces, and to provide security for U.S. personnel and infrastructure.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized the strategy Wednesday, saying such limits could pull troops from Baghdad neighborhoods, which have been the focus of the latest military buildup in Iraq.

“One real possibility is, if we abandon some of these areas and withdraw into the countryside or whatever to do these targeted missions, that you could have a fairly significant ethnic cleansing inside Baghdad or in Iraq more broadly,” Gates said.

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., is among those who argue Congress has no business “micromanaging this war.”

“Our troops are in Iraq fighting an enemy that wants to destroy our way of life, and setting a date for withdrawal would undermine our commanders,” he said last week. “Victory is our only option.”

Reid spoke and answered questions for about an hour and toured the VA facility.

“I say let’s get out of there. Let’s understand this war can only be won politically, diplomatically and economically.”

Reid said Democrats continue to try to work with the president to avoid a second veto he has promised if another version of a supplemental spending bill has a timetable for withdrawing troops.

“If he does that, he’s cutting off the funds to troops. We’re not cutting off the funds to troops,” Reid said.

“The president is a partner with us on what we do in Iraq whether he wants to be or not. We need to work with him and he needs to work with us.”

Wild Thing’s comment…….
Sen. Reid is despicable and a liar. The “no terrorists in Iraq before our attacks” canard has been disproved many times over. And President Bush needs no lessons in compromise from him. You don’t compromise on war. You don’t compromise on support for our troops. You don’t compromise with terrorists.
The President should occupy the halls of congress with a Battalion of Marines and throw each and every one of these clueless wonders in prison. It is his sworn duty to protect us “against all enemies, foreign and domestic”. This bunch of traitorous bastards have gone way over too far in time of war. Arrest them, shoot them, do something for all our sakes.
It’s a hard time for anyone who loves and believes in this country and wants to protect it. The Harry and Nancy show feel powerful, and we feel powerless. This is arrogant, disgraceful, disgusting behavior at its core!!!! It’s a hard and scary time.

‘American Taliban’ Lindh asks Bush to reduce 20-year prison term
San Francisco (AP) — The lawyer and parents of John Walker Lindh, the American-born Taliban soldier serving 20 years in prison after his capture in Afghanistan, called on President Bush on Wednesday to commute his sentence and set him free.
The renewed call to shorten the sentence was based on the relatively light term Australian David Hicks received Saturday after pleading guilty to supporting terrorism. Hicks, who had been imprisoned for five years at Guantanamo Bay and acknowledged aiding al-Qaida during the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, was given a nine month sentence.

“In the atmosphere of the time, the best John could get was a plea bargain and a 20-year sentence,” said Lindh’s father Frank Lindh. “We love our son very much, he was wrongly accused when he was found in Afghanistan.”

John Walker Lindh, 26, a Marin County native, was captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 by American forces sent to topple the Taliban after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and support terrorists but pleaded guilty in 2002 to lesser offenses, including carrying weapons against U.S. forces.
Attorney James Brosnahan brokered the plea deal and said it was the best he could do amid the political climate immediately after Sept. 11.
Lindh had converted to Islam and went to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban against the Northern Alliance, Brosnahan said.

“It is a question of proportionality, it is a question of fairness and it is a question of the religious experience John Walker Lindh had and it was not in any way directed at the United States,” Brosnahan said at a press conference Wednesday.

The White House referred telephone calls to the Justice Department, which declined to comment because it had not received the petition, said spokesman Dean Boyd.
Neither the president nor the department have acted on two previous commutation requests.

Wild Thing’s comment…….
OK, so instead of John Walker Lindh shall serve 20 years imprisonment for his joining terrorists in battle against American forces, how about…………You’re in for the full 20, you effing traitor! And your hippie parents can burn in hell along with you.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
‘This is my own, my native land!’
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.”
Sir Walter Scott.

House Democrats Offer Plan to Ban Use of ‘Global War on Terror’
Fox News
WASHINGTON
House Minority Leader John Boehner blasted a Democrat-backed plan on Wednesday to ban the use of “global War on Terror” and “long war” in the 2008 defense budget bill.
A memo sent to Democratic staffers on the House Armed Services Committee instructed the aides not to use the specific phrases, the Military Times newspaper reported.

Erin Conaton, the committee’s staff director, sent out the 15-page memo titled “Style Guide for Defense Authorization Report.”

“When referencing military operations throughout the world, please be as specific as possible. Please avoid using colloquialisms such as, ‘the war on terrorism, or the ‘Long War’ Please do not use the term ‘global war on terrorism,’ ” according to the memo.

Late Wednesday afternoon, a source told FOX News that the panel had sent out a revised version making it clear that there was “no political intent behind” the wording.
The section was rewritten and there is a new version of the style guide, a copy of which has not yet been released.

Boehner accused Democrats of launching an “absurd effort to deny the fact that America is battling terrorism on a global scale,” according to a statement released Wednesday by his office.

“How do Democrats expect America to fight and win a war they deny is even taking place?” Boehner said.

Democratic leaders in the House Armed Services Committee don’t like the phrases and want defense policy to be more specific, according to the report.
The memo, sent out on March 27, calls for specific references to specific operations instead of phrases used by the Bush administration.

President Bush began using the “global War on Terror” phrase after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The memo offers replacement phrases such as “war in Iraq,” “war in Afghanistan,” “operations in the Horn of Africa” or “ongoing operations throughout the world.”

Democratic staffers revised the memo to ensure that there “was no misunderstanding or confusion … it was never intended to be anything other than (to get) the highest degree of specificity and accuracy” for the legislation.
Boehner said Democrats have a “dismal” national security record with efforts to push through non-binding resolutions against President Bush’s Iraq plan, adding pork-barrel spending in unrelated legislation and leaving the nation’s capital for a recess without passing legislation backed by the president with funding for U.S. troops.

“It’s no wonder Democrats don’t like the phrases ‘global War on Terror,’ they have completely failed to take the threat of global terrorism seriously,” Boehner said.

Republicans weren’t consulted about the changes, said Josh Holly, a spokesman for Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., ranking member of the committee.
HERE is a copy of the Memo….it is a PDF file

Wild Thing’s comment………
Sheeesh….the DEMS are feeling powerful…now they want to micro-manage what Pres. Bush calls things. I wonder if they will say they don’t like the word “victory” or “winning” or “freedom” or “dictator” or “jihadists” or “terrorists” or “enemy”. This is really outrageous. When the president is up against people who are going to now quibble with what we call the war, we’re really in trouble in DC !
Oh, and I hope the president shoves this right back in the democrat’s faces and when they return from their little vacation I hope he goes on television every single day to remind people about the global war on terror and how the Democraps have abandoned our beloved troops.
Do Democrats consider themselves Americans? I don’t think they even recognize America as anything more than a tool to mooch off of and suck dry in their lust for power and control. Marxists have no fidelity.
It was the Carter Administration that ordered the shift from illegal alien to undocumented worker. It’s an old liberal tradition…just call a thing something else and whoosh, problem solved.
OK so I think the Demo socialists should be told, “……OK then call it , The War Against Islam, and if they don’t like it Dems you can put your opinon where the sun does not shine.

A little something for you to see from Rush Limbaugh, I thought this was good. ~ Wild Thing

Rush on the hostages yesterday:
RUSH: Well, Winston Churchill is having a scotch in his grave right now asking the question: “How did 15 British sailors and Marines give up without firing a shot?” Churchill probably cannot believe this. You know, they pretty mothballed their navy. Great Britain, I’ll tell you, it’s gone PC in ways you wouldn’t believe. If you people haven’t heard, this I want you to sit down. This is from the UK Daily Mail: “Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils,” according to a government study. The study “found that some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity of the Holocaust for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial. There is also resistance to tackling the Eleventh Century crusades where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques. The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using histories as a vehicle for promoting political correctness.”
Political correctness? It’s worse than that! The Brits are not teaching the Holocaust because there are Muslim students in there who are Holocaust deniers, and they don’t want them to be offended! They’re worried that they’re going to start blowing up the schools or something, I guess. (interruption) Yes, there is a “consensus” on the Holocaust, but the Brits are willing to say, “To hell with consensus.” The Holocaust is not “consensus.” It’s fact. Look, you wonder what’s happened to the Brits? It’s political correctness is running amok, and “conflict resolution.”
Does anybody think that 15 United States Marines would just sit there and allow themselves to be taken when they had not invaded Iranian waters and then in two days, start apologizing on Iranian TV? Do you think 15 United States Marines would do this?
No.
Way.

TEHRAN, Iran – Fifteen British sailors and marines released by Iran arrived at Tehran’s airport early Thursday and were expected to board a commercial flight to London, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.
The 15, whose release from nearly two weeks in Iranian captivity was announced Wednesday by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arrived in a convoy of sedans that drove directly to the presidential VIP section of the airport, the reporter said.
The convoy was escorted by several cars belonging to the elite Revolutionary Guards.
The British crew was expected to board a British Airways flight scheduled to leave the Mehrabad International Airport at 8 a.m. local time (12:30 a.m. EDT).

Wild Thing’s comment……
Just sayin! Cause I love OUR USA troops!
Regarding the 15 Brits, I am glad they are going to be released. I am glad they are alive and well.

U.S. Army Soldiers from Charlie Troop, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment (Recon), 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C., discover a cache of weapons in an abandoned van during Operation Minotaur in Qubbah, Iraq on March 24. Operation Minotaur is a mission to rid an area of insurgent forces to allow coalition forces freedom of movement throughout an area of operation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. JoAnn S. Makinano)

Staff Sgt. Jeriah McAvin, Charlie Troop, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment (Recon), 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C., searches a spider hole for during Operation Minotaur at Qubbah, Iraq on March 24. Operation Minotaur is a mission to rid an area of insurgent forces to allow coalition forces freedom of movement throughout an area of operation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. JoAnn S. Makinano)

Iraqi Security Forces, Cavalry Discover Extremist Training Camp
Multi-National Division – North PAO
ZAGANIYAH, Iraq – Iraqi security forces from the 5th Iraqi Army Division, working with coalition forces, discovered a terrorist training camp in Zaganiyah, Iraq, while conducting clearing operations in the Diyala River Valley palm groves Thursday.
Soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 5th IA and Company B, 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, discovered a fortified underground bunker with three exit points, four prepared fighting positions and a training camp building.
While clearing the area, the Soldiers unearthed five weapons caches consisting of more than 100 rocket-propelled grenade rounds, more than five RPG launchers, approximately 70 mortar rounds, bomb-making materials, homemade explosives and terrorist planning and training materials.

“The terrorists from Al Qaeda have no place to hide. Their safe havens do not exist and their training camps are being destroyed,” said Col. David W. Sutherland, 3-1 Cav. commander. “We will continue to attack these organizations and bring the perpetrators of violence to justice in order to secure the population.

“The people in Diyala are disgusted and disillusioned by the fact the terrorists have nothing to offer but destruction through actions like this and they are gaining confidence in their ISF,” he added

Pfc. Karla Hiquiana (left), Specialist Alex Teesdale (center) and Chaplain (Capt.) Ben Clark, read messages on boxes of Girl Scout cookies sent by troops from the greater Austin, Texas, area. The three, from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4th Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, separated 1,100 boxes of the cookies that would be distributed to the battalion’s Soldiers. Each Soldier in the battalion got two boxes and extras were handed out to other Soldiers in the 1st ACB.

Story by Sgt. 1st Class Rick Emert
By Sgt. 1st Class Rick Emert
1st ACB, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
TAJI, Iraq – It’s a yearly tradition that 4th Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade Soldiers would have missed out on – Girl Scout cookie season.
Instead, Girl Scout troops from the greater Austin, Texas, area sent about 650 pounds of the treats, that many crave this time of year, to the Soldiers from 4-227th stationed at Taji, Iraq.
The battalion has received about 1,100 boxes of the treats with more on the way, according to Chaplain (Capt.) Ben Clark, the chaplain for 4-227th.

“It was an outstanding effort for them to collect and put a message on all of these boxes of cookies,” Clark said. “I can picture in my mind the effort that the person who put this all together had to put forth.”

Clark and his chaplain assistants, Spc. Alex Teesdale and Pfc. Karla Hiquiana – both from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 4-227th – separated the cookies into boxes to go to each of the battalion’s companies. Each Soldier in the battalion gets two boxes, and the excess will be handed out to other Soldiers from the 1st ACB at such events as the Bunker 182 group meeting, which takes place every Sunday at Camp Taji.
Most Soldiers have picked up their boxes, and were not so patient about getting their Girl Scout cookie fix.

“I had Soldiers coming up to me for a week asking: ‘When are we going to get those Girl Scout cookies?’” Teesdale said.

“People in my office have been looking forward to getting them,” said Spc. Misha Argall, HHC, 4-227th. “I thought it was great they sent these; it’s not something you would associate with a deployment. It’s nice to know that people at home are still thinking about us.”

Clark said he has received other donations, such as items to set up a coffee bar in his building, but not on a scale like this.

“Before we knew what was in them, we saw all these boxes for the chaplain, and I thought, wow, his family really does love him,” Hiquiana said.

Clark is planning to send flags that will be flown over Iraq by the 1st ACB’s helicopters to show his gratitude to the Texas-based Girl Scouts.
The shipment of cookies coincided with a playful request from the1st ACB commander Col. Dan Shanahan for Girl Scout cookies to be sent to his Soldiers during a live town hall meeting that he attended via the Digital Video Imagery Distribution System on Feb. 27. Clark said the troops had been preparing the cookies for shipment before Shanahan’s request. But the brigade soon found itself inundated with cookies – not necessarily a bad thing.

“Who doesn’t love Girl Scout cookies?” Teesdale said.

“And, who doesn’t have a favorite Girl Scout cookie?” added Clark.

Certainly not Clark (Peanut Butter Patties), Hiquiana (Thin Mints), Teesdale (Thin Mints) or Argall (Caramel delights).

Wild Thing’s comment……….
Wouldn’t it be awesome if our POS Media had done this story. American chilidren supporting the troops, American children realizing more why they are living in the land of the free then our Congress.

Ryan Rahe, with mom Jayne, holds the flag that soldiers sent him after he sent his medals to them for good luck. (DARYL SULLIVAN / THE DAILY TIMES)

MARYVILLE, Tenn. — A generous donation of “good luck” sent to soldiers in Iraq was returned to a Blount County man after the recipients’ safe return home.
Ryan Rahe, an active participant in Special Olympics since middle school, has won numerous medals in several sports, especially bowling and swimming. The 25-year-old man has shared his medals with soldiers several times, with his most recent gifts going to soldiers in the Virginia Army National Guard in Iraq.

“He sent the medals and said they were for good luck, and thank you for fighting for our country,” said Ryan’s mother, Jayne Rahe.

“I put a little note in there and said since Ryan is not going to be able to protect our country, I really appreciated the work they were doing for that.”

Jayne said earlier recipients had acknowledged Ryan’s gifts, but this time, the young man received a special surprise. The soldiers sent him a package containing an American flag that had accompanied the crew of UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter 26849 on a combat sortie in Iraq, a certificate of appreciation of Ryan’s continued friendship and support, and a photograph of the men holding the flag and Ryan’s medals — which had accompanied them on this mission — in front of their helicopter.
‘Courage’ remembered
The letter written by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Anthony W. Grillett on Jan. 10 thanked Ryan for sending the medals.

“I and the Battalion can never thank you enough for sending us your medals,” Grillett wrote. “They have brought us luck and good fortune, and now as we prepare to deploy home we send them back to you with our eternal gratitude.
“That you would send us something so precious is a reflection of your character. As you called us heroes; to me you are the hero. For I believe it is not who you are, or what you are that makes you a hero, it is the ability to give all especially when it is never asked.
“Your courage to face the challenges required earning those medals and then so freely send them to us here in Iraq will forever make you a hero to me. I will never be able to truly express in words how honored I was when I read the letter from your Mother. It truly humbles me and shows me that what I fight for in our country will always be worth the small sacrifices asked of me. Thank you again.”
The letter was signed, “Your friend always.”

Jayne Rahe said the idea of sending support to the soldiers in harm’s way came about when she and Ryan were talking about news coverage of the war in Iraq. Jayne visited a www.anysoldier.com online and discovered how she and Ryan could let the men and women in Iraq know their efforts are appreciated.
Ryan, named 2006 Special Olympics Athlete of the Year for the Blount County Sports Hall of Fame, said he felt good when he received the box from the soldiers. He said if he could talk with them face to face, he would say, “Thank you.”
The Rahes plan to continue sending care packages to soldiers, including the medals.

Wild Thing’s comment……….
I love stories that show appreciation of our troops and Veterans. I think this one was special.
When we lived in California, the stuntmen’s organization my husband is with worked with the Special Olympics for several years. It was something that all the guys say even today, was a time that touched their hearts.

April 2, 2007 Washington D.C. -­ U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that they are introducing legislation that will effectively end the current military mission in Iraq and begin the redeployment of U.S. forces.
The bill requires the President to begin safely redeploying U.S. troops from Iraq 120 days from enactment, as required by the emergency supplemental spending bill the Senate passed last week. The bill ends funding for the war, with three narrow exceptions, effective March 31, 2008.

“I am pleased to cosponsor Senator Feingold’s important legislation,” Reid said.

“I believe it is consistent with the language included in the supplemental appropriations bill passed by a bipartisan majority of the Senate.

If the President vetoes the supplemental appropriations bill and continues to resist changing course in Iraq, I will work to ensure this legislation receives a vote in the Senate in the next work period.”

“I am delighted to be working with the Majority Leader to bring our involvement in the Iraq war to an end,” Feingold said.

“Congress has a responsibility to end a war that is opposed by the American people and is undermining our national security. By ending funding for the President’s failed Iraq policy, our bill requires the President to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq.”

The language of the legislation reads:
(a) Transition of Mission – The President shall promptly transition the mission of United States forces in Iraq to the limited purposes set forth in subsection (d).
(b) Commencement of Safe, Phased Redeployment from Iraq – The President shall commence the safe, phased redeployment of United States forces from Iraq that are not essential to the purposes set forth in subsection (d). Such redeployment shall begin not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(c) Prohibition on Use of Funds – No funds appropriated or otherwise made available under any provision of law may be obligated or expended to continue the deployment in Iraq of members of the United States Armed Forces after March 31, 2008.
(d) Exception for Limited Purposes –

The prohibition under subsection (c) shall not apply to the obligation or expenditure of funds for the limited purposes as follows:

(1) To conduct targeted operations, limited in duration and scope, against members of al Qaeda and other international terrorist organizations.
(2) To provide security for United States infrastructure and personnel.
(3) To train and equip Iraqi security services.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Senate Democrats, McCain’s buddy Feingold and Reid pressing for an IMMEDIDATE SURRENDER and cutoff of funds now. They want the war ENDED before the 2008 election, no matter HOW MANY WILL DIE because of it.
Again, I am forced to ask: WILL NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON??
Those traitors are giving orders to the President to do what they want thinking that they are the Commander in Chief. The President is going to veto every treasonous and defeatist bill and he will get his funding for the troops without any condition. If it won’t stop them can Bush do an Executive order to cancel the treachery of the democraps?