Defending Charles Schumer from right wing attacks.....

[ingac70]

Chuck's comments on the Senate floor on Sept. 5 have the righties all abuzz that he "attacked the troops" and "lied".

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2007/09/05/schumer-disses-the-troops/

http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2007/09/dishonorable-senator-chuck-schumer.html

http://blackandright.mensnewsdaily.com/2007/09/08/rush-quote-of-the-day-17/

http://www.charliedaniels.com/soapbox-2007-091007.htm

Here are the comments that have their panties in a wad...

"And let me be clear: the violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge.
The lack of protection for these tribes from al Qaeda made it clear to these tribes, “We have to fight al Qaeda ourselves.” It wasn’t that the surge brought peace here. It was that the warlords had to create a temporary peace here on their own. And that is because there was no one else there protecting them."

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To counter the outlandish claims of the right, here is proof positive that Chuck wasn't "lying" or "attacking the troops"...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5357340.stm

From Sept. 2006.......


"Tribal leaders and clerics in Ramadi met last week to decide how to confront the daily bloodshed in their city.

"People are fed up with the acts of those criminals who take Islam as a cover for their crimes," Sheik Fassal al-Guood told the Associated Press news agency on Monday.

"The situation in the province is unbearable, the city is abandoned, most of the families have fled the city and all services are poor."
He said 15 of the 18 tribes in Ramadi "have sworn to fight those who are killing Sunnis and Shiites", and had put together "20,000 young men".
Another sheikh at the meeting, Sattar al-Buzayi, told Reuters that the tribal leaders had decided to take the fight to the Islamist militants who control parts of Ramadi and Anbar province.
"We have now entered a real battle. It's either us or them," he said. "

We just want to live like everyone else. We're sick of all this bloodshed," said one Ramadi resident, voicing anger at al-Qaeda.

However, a young al-Qaeda leader called Abu Farouq told Reuters that the fight would go on until an Islamic caliphate had been imposed across Anbar.

"This tribal system is un-Islamic. We are proud to kill tribal leaders who are helping the Americans," he said."
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I ask that all of you pass this information along to any right wing asshole defaming Chuck!

[Gman]

1. Shumer said nothing wrong

As they usually will do, they picked up on a few words and twisted them to mean something they never meant in the first place. Very typical of the nutcase right wing. Very normal too. I don't think mainstream America buys into it. It's simply red meat for the base.