Would you send your relative to Iraq? Wu asks

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1166846116292360.xml&coll=7

As Rep. David Wu visited wounded soldiers in the National Naval Medical Center this week, he thought about President Bush considering a move to send more troops to Iraq.

Wu fears the White House will quietly roll out the "temporary surge" over the holidays, as if it were a company marketing a new product.

"We need to focus on whether we would choose to send our own son or daughter, our own wife or our own husband off for a temporary surge in Iraq," said Wu, D-Ore. "If we wouldn't do that, then should we permit this administration to roll out a potential product like that?"

Most of the Democrat-dominated Oregon congressional delegation is adamantly opposed to a temporary increase in troops in Iraq. Instead, they want to reduce the U.S. presence in the region and improve diplomacy.

Their opposition to Bush's Iraq policy provides a glimpse of what the White House must contend with next month, when Democrats take control of Congress.

[Erika]

1. W has misused and abused the volunteer military

They didn't sign on to go fight civil wars among Muslims. The only ones profiteering are oilmen and defense contractors. It is a shift of American workers wealth to the globalists.

W needs to face opposition next month. His GOP Congress did nothing but rubber stamp his empirical goals and they got tossed out in November. The frat brat king needs to face what he has done.

[jgraz]

2. Depends on the relative...

Did I say that out loud? oops.

[I_Make_Mistakes]

3. That's the question we should ask everyone in the House and

Senate. We should start an e mail letter writing campaign this coming week and cram their in boxes, everyone, Dem, Rep and Indep.

They should come back to work knowing that this is not going to be done in OUR NAME, or we will bear the judgment for it happening!

[Erika]

4. Not in our name

should be what we hammer the Congress with. I am utterly ashamed what W has done in "our name" to an innocent Muslim country.

Baghdad Shiites have pretty well purged/killed Sunnis from their homes and Baghdad is now a Shiite territory. Under Saddam is was secular.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. I have been very neutral about Wu...

Until now.


Thank you Wu.

Voted NO on the Iraq war..
Oregon Sen Ron Wyden- Rep Earl Blumenauer- Rep Peter DeFazio- Rep Darlene Hooley- Rep David Wu
http://usliberals.about.com/od/liberalleadership/a/IraqNayVote_3.htm