that began yesterday in the House was a study in extremes.
On one hand you had John Boehner R-OH telling us:
"If we leave, they will follow us home...it's as simple as that".
Really? If we leave the Shiites and Sunni's will come over here and continue their fight in the streets of Redondo Beach? I'd have to say that I'd be willing to take my chances on that. But as the great John Candy said in Stripes..."me, I'm a gambler". What an empty suit that guy Boehner is...hard to believe that is all they got but there you go.
On the other hand was Patrick Murphy D-PA who actually served and fought in Iraq as a member of the 82nd Airborne who said:
You know, a few blocks away from this great chamber, when you walk in the snow, is the Vietnam Memorial, where half of the soldiers listed on that wall died after America's leaders knew our strategy would not work.
It was immoral then and it would be immoral now to engage in the same delusion.
That's why Mr. Speaker, sending more troops into civil war is the wrong strategy. We need to win the War on Terror and reasonable people may disagree on what to do, but most will agree that it is immoral to send young Americans to fight and die in a conflict without a real strategy for success.
The President's current course is not resolute, it is reckless.
It would be hard to come up with a more stark contrast than Boehner/Murphy. Do the repugs think the American public can't see which is a more thoughtful position?
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