Tough Questions
Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand will be on the House Armed Services Committee and is prepared to ask “tough questions” about a new policy for Iraq. I have a few very “tough” questions for the Armed Services Committee:
1. Bush advisers Condaleeza Rice, Henry Kissinger and our generals are saying that there is no military solution, shouldn’t we be asking: What are the troops doing in Iraq?
2. We have $70 billion in the pipeline, which was appropriated three months ago, which should be used to bring the troops home. Democrats were planning to approve a supplemental of $160 billion, which would allow the war to continue through the end of Bush’s term. However, in November voters put Democrats in power to bring our troops home. Why aren’t Democrats notifying Bush that they will be voting against that $160 billion appropriations bill?
3. Smedley Butler was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor twice for separate acts of outstanding heroism. In his illuminating 1933 speech, Butler said: “War is a racket... I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
Isn’t Butler’s speech unmistakably applicable to the war in Iraq?
4. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Shelton has said: “The American military is a great hammer but every problem in the world is not necessarily a nail.” How many more years are we going tolerate our troops dying in a situation, which isn’t working?
5. “How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a mistake”?
1. Bush advisers Condaleeza Rice, Henry Kissinger and our generals are saying that there is no military solution, shouldn’t we be asking: What are the troops doing in Iraq?
2. We have $70 billion in the pipeline, which was appropriated three months ago, which should be used to bring the troops home. Democrats were planning to approve a supplemental of $160 billion, which would allow the war to continue through the end of Bush’s term. However, in November voters put Democrats in power to bring our troops home. Why aren’t Democrats notifying Bush that they will be voting against that $160 billion appropriations bill?
3. Smedley Butler was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor twice for separate acts of outstanding heroism. In his illuminating 1933 speech, Butler said: “War is a racket... I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
Isn’t Butler’s speech unmistakably applicable to the war in Iraq?
4. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Shelton has said: “The American military is a great hammer but every problem in the world is not necessarily a nail.” How many more years are we going tolerate our troops dying in a situation, which isn’t working?
5. “How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a mistake”?
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