McCain: GOP Lost Congress Because Of Spending

   John McCain was in Conway, South Carolina flapping his face about how the Republicans lost control of Congress. According to McCain, the Republicans lost the Congress because they let spending get out of control.

   McCain told the 225 people who came to hear him that Republicans started valuing power over principle which caused the spending to lurch out of control.     Source

   When it comes to the Iraq war, McCain said the same old line that we have been hearing for years.

"We lose this war and come home, they'll follow us home."

"I think you should judge people by their record," McCain said. "I am conservative across the board and I will match my record with anybody in America much less anybody who is running."

   Lost Congress because of over spending? Somebody get Mr. McCain his medication because it looks like his memory is slipping again. I do not recall many of the voters speaking on the GOP over-spending nearly as much as they did on getting our troops out of Iraq and back home where they belong.

    Mr. McCain should take his old ancient ass back to Arizona and then go play on the golf course and leave the real problems to those who can remember what happened yesterday. What an idiot this man is turning into!

 

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Sexual Assault By Comrades In Iraq

       Here is a story that I am crossposting and this one deals with the female soldiers in Iraq concerned with sexual assault, from our own military troops in Iraq.

Iraq Slogger

Female Troops Fear Sexual Assault by Comrades

Salon Chronicles "The Private War of Women Soldiers"

By CHRISTINA DAVIDSON 03/08/2007 6:08 PM ET

Considering the dominant masculinity of military culture, the exposure of female sexual persecution in incidents such as the Tailhook scandal, though they may shock public sensibilities, don't tend to surprise those who have served.

Helen Benedict has written an impressive and depressing piece for Salon.com chronicling the disturbing incidence of the intentional blue-on-blue attacks that come in the form of sexual assault.

Benedict did in-depth interviews with 20 female Iraq veterans, and "every one of them said the danger of rape by other soldiers is so widely recognized in Iraq that their officers routinely told them not to go to the latrines or showers without another woman for protection."

One soldier, Spc. Mickiela Montoya, 21, carried a knife with her at all times. As Benedict reports:

"The knife wasn't for the Iraqis," she told me. "It was for the guys on my own side."

The Pentagon does not maintain comprehensive statistic on the incidence of sexual assault in the military, but Benedict cites a 2003 survey of female veterans from Vietnam through the first Gulf War, which found that 30 percent reported having been raped during their term of service.

 

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