posted on July 18, 2007 02:56:46 PM new
Once again, and this time including an all-nighter ...lol....the dems have failed to obtain enough votes to allow them to defeat our efforts in Iraq.
And please notice what they do then......and they pretend to support our troops? Yea, sure.....right.....NOT!!!
The Democratic-led Senate today failed to set a spring deadline for withdrawing most U.S. troops from Iraq as Republicans remained united behind President Bush's war strategy.
The amendment died 52-47 — falling eight votes shy of the 60 needed to advance it to a simple-majority vote — after an all-night debate.
Majority Leader Harry Reid blasted Republicans for filibustering the measure and immediately pulled from consideration the underlying bill that calls for increasing both the pay for troops and the size of the Army and Marines.
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SHAME on them....and a pox on their houses for failing to care about our troops who are putting their lives on the line for our Nation. tsk tsk
Again, their VOTES and actions speak much louder than their words.
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"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
Ann Coulter
[ edited by Linda_K on Jul 18, 2007 02:57 PM ]
posted on July 19, 2007 12:27:03 AM new
Here's what linduh is so happy about:
Marine: Beating of Iraqis Became Routine
Updated 7:58 AM ET July 15, 2007
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) - A Marine corporal testifying in a court-martial said Marines in his unit began routinely beating Iraqis after officers
ordered them to
"crank up the violence level."
Cpl. Saul H. Lopezromo testified Saturday at the murder trial of Cpl. Trent D. Thomas.
"We were told to crank up the violence level," said Lopezromo, testifying for the defense.
When a juror asked for further explanation, Lopezromo said: "We beat people, sir."
Within weeks of allegedly being scolded, seven Marines and a Navy corpsman went out late one night to find and kill a suspected insurgent in the village of Hamandiya near the Abu Ghraib prison. The Marines and corpsman were from 2nd Platoon, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment.
Lopezromo said the suspected insurgent was known to his neighbors as the "prince of jihad," and had been arrested several times and later released by the Iraqi legal system.
Unable to find him, the Marines and corpsman dragged another man from his house, fatally shot him, and then planted an AK-47 assault rifle near the body to make it appear he had been killed in a shootout, according to court testimony.
Four Marines and the corpsman, initially charged with murder in the April 2006 killing, have pleaded guilty to reduced charges and been given jail sentences ranging from 10 months to eight years. Thomas, 25, from St. Louis, pleaded guilty but withdrew his plea and is the first defendant to go to court-martial.
Lopezromo, who was not part of the squad on its late-night mission, said he saw nothing wrong with what Thomas did.
"I don't see it as an execution, sir," he told the judge. "I see it as killing the enemy."
He said Marines consider all Iraqi men part of the insurgency.
Lopezromo and two other Marines were charged in August with assaulting an Iraqi two weeks before the killing that led to charges against Thomas and the others. Charges against all three were later dropped.
Thomas' attorneys have said he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury from his combat duty in Fallouja in 2004. They have argued that Thomas believed he was following a lawful order to get tougher with suspected insurgents.
Prosecution witnesses testified that Thomas shot the 52-year-old man at point-blank range after he had already been shot by other Marines and was lying on the ground.
Lopezromo said a procedure called "dead-checking" was routine. If Marines entered a house where a man was wounded, instead of checking to see whether he needed medical aid, they shot him to make sure he was dead, he testified.
"If somebody is worth shooting once, they're worth shooting twice," he said.
The jury is composed of three officers and six enlisted personnel, all of whom have served in Iraq. The trial was set to resume Monday.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
posted on July 19, 2007 10:11:26 AM new
""Increased interrogation methods by the marines."" ????
"""Unable to find him, the Marines and corpsman dragged another man from his house, fatally shot him, and then planted an AK-47 assault rifle near the body to make it appear he had been killed in a shootout, according to court testimony."""
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""Lopezromo said a procedure called "dead-checking" was routine. If Marines entered a house where a man was wounded, instead of checking to see whether he needed medical aid, they shot him to make sure he was dead, he testified.
"If somebody is worth shooting once, they're worth shooting twice," he said.""
""Prosecution witnesses testified that Thomas shot the 52-year-old man at point-blank range after he had already been shot by other Marines and was lying on the ground.""
Need some training on "interrogation". THOSE were acts of terrorism.
A terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist....no matter what country he comes from...Duke.
Are YOU a Bunghole?