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DEL.ICIO.USThe Iraq debate: Something about sheep, and a football-game revolt by the cheerleaders
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Debate over the Iraq resolution in the U.S. House enters its third and final debate today.
So far, two Georgia congressmen have made a bit of news in the process. Said U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall of Macon, one of the few Democrats to oppose it:
“The anti-surge resolution is akin to sitting on the sidelines, and booing in the middle of our own team’s play because we don’t like the coach’s call. I cannot join mid-play nay-saying that discourages even one of those engaged in this current military effort in Baghdad.”
And U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a Republican from Sharpsburg, has ticked off the animal husbandry lobby with this gem:
“Some people from the other side seem to believe that if we pull out of Iraq, that the Iraqi people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats. That’s not what’s going to happen. If we pull out of Iraq, what’s going to happen is you are going to see more bloodshed than we have seen in a long time in this world.”
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By SharonH
February 15, 2007 9:47 AM | Link to this
I’ll give Marshall this much: once he makes a mistake he’s willing to ride it out until the end…..oh not his end but the end of other people’s lives but the end never the less. Not like those other folks in Congress who see what a huge mistake they’ve made and who are trying to rectify it, that’s just crazy!
By LWG
February 15, 2007 9:21 PM | Link to this
Lynn Westmoreland continues to be the biggest idiot in Congress. He’s an embarassment, even to the GOP.
By Proud Republican
February 15, 2007 11:29 PM | Link to this
LWG: Only a genuine IDIOT would post such a comment, which is typical of a Dem’s malicious streak.
By Bob Delzell
February 18, 2007 11:54 PM | Link to this
I’ve known Jim Marshall since 1969. We met in Ranger School at Ft.Benning, served in the same division in Vietnam from 69-70. As a combat soldier he and I know what it feels like to fight in a war, see men die, and feel like your country doesn’t understand what’s going on. The infantryman can be killed physically by the enemy and spiritually by his country’s lack of support for his sacrafice.