Carl Levin ( D-MI ) What An Idiot!

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin ( D-MI )

"We're very strong in supporting the troops, but we're also strong on putting pressure on the Iraqi leaders to live up to their own commitments. Without that political settlement on their part, there is no military solution. We can keep the benchmarks part of the bill without saying that the troops must begin to come back within four months."

"And what we will leave will be benchmarks, for instance, which would require the president to certify to the American people if the Iraqis are meeting the benchmarks for political settlement, which they, the Iraqi leaders, have set for themselves."   FoxNews

...and he's calling me in despair, wanting to know what the Democrats are doing to end this bloodbath and get his buddies out of that meat grinder.  Fathers conversation with son in Iraq

   I sometimes wonder if Carl Levin and a few other of the Democrats that we hired to get the troops out of the Iraq war are really Republicans in disguise. Why do I continue to get the feeling that the Democrats don't want to end this war any more than Bush does?

   One more time! If Congress would just go ahead and cut the fucking funds then the U.S. involvement is over, period! That would be showing our troops that you support them. Not giving Bush certain dates to begin withdrawing them, but making this punk begin taking them out now would be showing support for our troops!

   Cutting the war funds would be supporting the troops, it would not be supporting the war. There is a difference!

   And if Carl Levin is stupid enough to believe that Bush would be honest when it comes time to certify that the Iraqis are holding up to their benchmarks, then he needs another career! I also have some beach front property I'll sell him cheap, in Baghdad.

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