TIME FOR ACTION, NOT RHETORIC, WORDS FROM REP. JOHN MURTHA
Gee, how long does Murtha have to keep saying this before the administration says…..Ya know what…..he’s right!! Oh that’s right……never, because they are never wrong!!
As I have stated in the past, as long as U.S. military forces remain in Iraq, the Iraqis will allow our men and women to bear the brunt of all security actions and our forces will be targets. The Iraqi government, security forces and military have to be put on notice that we will redeploy our forces and that they will be responsible for their own country.
It’s their country, they need to fight for it, just as we did in the American Revolution and our own Civil War.
Just yesterday, Sen. John Warner, one of America’s most respected military experts, returned from a trip to Iraq and observed that parts of Iraq have taken “steps backwards” and that efforts to control an increasingly violent Baghdad are at risk of being lost.
He blamed the Iraqi leaders for failing to improve conditions. Sen. Warner went on to say, “You do not see them taking the levers of sovereignty and pulling and pushing them and doing what is necessary to bring about a situation in Iraq whereby the people are able to live, have sufficient food and fresh water, and have a sense of confidence in their government that they’re going forward.”
Full article at the Huffington Post
