Lugar: Plans To End The War Are ‘Very Partisan,’ ‘Will Not Work’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/27/lugar-iraq-timetable/

Lugar: Plans To End The War Are ‘Very Partisan,’ ‘Will Not Work’

Earlier this week, Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) delivered a major speech on the Senate floor calling “victory” in Iraq, as defined by President Bush, “almost impossible.” Abandoning his unyielding public support for the war, he called on the President to downsize the U.S. military presence in Iraq in order to “strengthen our position in the Middle East, and reduce the prospect of terrorism, regional war, and other calamities.”

Unfortunately, Lugar has no intention of acting on his rhetoric. Speaking this morning with NBC’s Matt Lauer, Lugar said that Congressional measures aimed at curtailing U.S. military involvement in Iraq, including “so-called timetables, benchmarks,” have “no particular legal consequence,” are “very partisan,” and “will not work.”

Watch it/read transcript at link:

While Lugar now decries legislative solutions to Iraq as “partisan” and of no “legal consequence,” Lugar himself voted in favor of cutting funds and setting a timetable for redeployment of U.S. forces out of Somalia in 1993.

Also, several prominent members of Lugar’s own party have already expressed support for a legislative solution in Iraq. Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) said, “I think that many of us are going to look at legislation that will limit the number of troops” and Sen. John Warner (R-VA) called the administration’s September reporting date “too long to wait to revise U.S. war policy.”

[redqueen]

1. so the Rs are becoming schizophrenic?

:wtf:

[Solly Mack]

2. ...

...

somebody got a talking to

[IChing]

3. yep.......

like we said it would happen
after his little trip to the WH woodshed.

[theoldman]

4. By the time we approach the 4000 death toll the tide will have

turned against Bush.

[AndreaCG]

5. They're all chickenshits

Except maybe Hegel. And Ron Paul.

[genie_weenie]

6. This country is fucking fucked up.

Why do the media spend all fucking day debating the brutal occupation as though it is some minor farm subsidy bill?

Thousands of people are dying every month. In horrible ways, as shards of metal splay viscera, muscles, sinews and arteries everywhere and fuck all if evil sites can't help putting out their daily garbage attacking Democrats hoping to divert attention away from the blood soaked sands of Mesopotamia and to maintaining temporal power.

Men and women are losing limbs, eyes, genitals, their minds and souls. The land saturated with depleted uranium. And everyone in DC wants to score points or worse fight over Coulter. Coulter! Coulter! Who can't help laughing as everytime she goes on TV as she can hear the money coming into her account.

But, fuck me! We get breathless reporting on Paris and maybe 5 seconds to state 78 people died in a car bomb and 3 americans were killed by an IED and fuck...

[CTM1978]

7. Why not cut his Healthcare so that when he eventually keels over......

The Paramedic's can stand over him and say "Mr. President, sorry, Mr. Vice-President we can't give you any sort of medical treatment untill your insurance company calls." I doubt that anyone in this administration would perform CPR. People would be too afraid of what they might get off of that sneering old bastard. Either that or they'd be afraid of getting frost bite.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. The only thing that "will work" is more war, endlessly, apparently...

[pwb]

9. He is from Indiana

They have the worst representatives. Steve Beyer on the vet committee is a butte too. he wants to cut the v a?