POW Congressman's Pleas Ignored in Congress on Iraq
Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 01:12PM GEN Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, visited the Pacific Command Headquarters in Hawaii this week and said about Iraq debate in the Congress:
"Debate in the Congress of the United States is good to the health of our democracy....
"The problem is that our enemies, who have no clue what Democracy is all about, don't understand that debate and look to that debate as a sign of weakness as opposed to a sign of strength."
Some have asked what "honest debate" in the Congress looks like. Republican Congressman Sam Johnson from Texas' 3rd District served 29 years as a highly decorated Air Force pilot flying combat missions in both the Korean and Vietnam wars. Johnson was a prisoner of war (POW) in Hanoi for nearly seven years, with half of that time spent in solitary confinement.
Rep. Johnson gave an eight and a half minute speech on the floor of the Congress on Friday before the vote on a non-binding resolution "disapproving of the decision of the President announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq". This is "honest debate". This is who we should be listening to about Iraq. Do yourself a favor and listen to the entire speech. (transcript)
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What a grat man. We need more like him! Because unfortunately we have to many like the following...
They're doing this inspite of record reenlistments by our soldiers who are volunteering to go back to IRaq!
This is a slithering snake. This should result in a call to arms by all verterans to march on Washington and send a message to Congress to shut the hell up and let our troops win.
Schumer wants to recreate Vietnam, over 1 million dead, boat refugees lost at sea, drowning, Cambodia's killing fields and allowing Communist re-education camps!
This is a result of allowing democrats lead. The only "strategy" they have is defeat!
I might add to Defeat for America, destruction and death for Iraqis!
God Bless Sam Johnson! But he cannot do this alone. We all need to be heard. And we need to take on the Media as well.
I was to young to understand Vietnam, but I know what this is. It is retreat, defeat, cowardly moves by a bunch of corrupt people destroying our nation not just in cowtowing to our enemies, but in so many other areas of our lives, including sending messages to children that are all wrong.
Democrat message:
1) Give up, we'll give you welfare
2) Marriage? Give up, marriage is out. Have sex with anyone, we'll give you a condom
3) Condom breaks? Give up, we'll pay for your murdering a baby
4) God? Give up, the ACLU and Judges have proven God does not exist. We are all random mutations, just here by accidental collisions in space.
We need more than VictoryCaucus, we need a revolution from the heartlands, new media, new print, new broadcast stations. Fox News, Radio and Blogs although excellent alternatives are not enough.
We need VictoryMedia, VictoryEducation, and VictorySelfReliance.
My Grandparents and parents paid their way, started their own business, struggled, made mistakes, restarted and never ever depended upon the government to help them.
I paid my way thru college, had two businesses, one failed and yet I'm not complaining, asking for handout.
I met a man once who started two businesses himself, they both failed miserably and he started a third. It's a multi-million dollar technology business now.
Edison failed over 1000 times before he created lightbulbs.
The Democrats are the Can'tDoIt Party. We can't win, can't work, and can't blame us when we can't do it.
The Democrats use to have CanDo people. But now they're more interested in the latest Follywood gossip, fashion, and lust affairs of the lost and shameless.
I watched the FoxNews 1/2 Show - conservative humor - last night. They showed titles of books by liberals. One of them was - The Little Red Engine that couldn't quite make it up the hill.
Ha! That about sums it up.
Can you imagine if Moses was a liberal? He would've told the Lord, no sorry Sir, can't do it. Passover, the Red Sea, Promised Land. All that would not be available for us to read today. We would not know how to overcome, because a liberal said, Nope, sorry Lord. It is to dangerous, people may die.
The twelved tribes of Israel would still be enslaved answering to Pharoh and the gods of Ra.
Sam Johnson, he is a man among man, the kind of leader this country needs, and while he realizes this may be dangerous, he still has faith in his people to persevere and bring freedom to the oppressed.
Schumer? He'd just leave them all back in Egypt....
Michael:
You fire me up, man. I love to read your comments. You are right on the money with everything you say. Slithering snake is the most apt metaphor I can think of - the very symbol invoked by Christ to denounce the corrupt leaders in his day.
Schumer et al are destroying our country - and you are correct, we need a vet-led uprising against these ex-hippy quitters. If thgey succeed in creating a post-Viet Nam scenario in Iraq, the whole middle east will be engulfed in a WWIII chaos that will include multiple terrorist attacks on the US, maybe even a nuke.
I still can't believe the American people voted these clueless losers into power...
Yes Sam Johnson is a true hero!!! And you have a wonderful blog!
First I would just like to applaud Congressman Sam Johnson. Wow! That was an impressive and powerful speech. We really could use more like him in Congress, in the Senate, in our courts and even in the presidency. What an amazing man.
Michael you said it all! Well done!
The mainstream media and Hollywood elitists have quite literally brainwashed the American public into seeing their point-of-view alone. They hate President Bush and have mocked this war and our veterans as well as active duty military personnel. They give half-truths and the public eats it up without question.
Americans have lost their ability to think for themselves and have allowed themselves to be influenced by immoral, reckless haters of democracy and morality.
This is the reason we have such "losers" in control.
That is indeed healthy debate. I would much rather see the hands of my fellow Marines untied, than see more sent to stand hobbled beside them. We've seen a brief glimpse of that lately, but only a glimpse. It should become the rule, not the exception. Turn us loose; let us win.
Michael, I saw the 1/2 hour news hour on Fox, too. I particularly loved the ACLU snippits! Funny but so very sad. I hope the show takes off... I loved it.
Great comments!
Amen, Jarhead.
Leticia, you're absolutely right. Americans have given up their desire to reason for quick little sound bytes that aren't even believable. It's a matter of laziness and selfcenteredness more than anything, stemming from a lack of good faith.
Amy, we are on the same wavelength. I put up a post last night that has Sam Johnson's speech on it. It's a great speech and he is indeed a great man! I'll leave a link to this post.
Thanks Amy!
excellent speech. Inspired Patriotism. Check out Rep. Mike Pence's speech as well.
Johnny,
You and Amy are the ones that inspire me. Your sacrifices and committment against all odds for a people you do not even know! And standing by each other is a great example of Christ love. Christ that is in us.
I am continuously amazed at how many people I see online praying for IRaqi's these days, like over at Iraq the Model and other Iraqi blogs.
And what our military and civilians are doinig in Iraq is similar in Christ. They offer food, shelter, medicine, hope, love, education, and prayers.
Iraqis have never seen this in America. What they see is the filth thrown out by Hollywood or they heard what their Imams taught them as hateful propaganda. They do not know there are good people who care, love, living a life of Christ. They're taught we are evil, satan, and hopeless and should therefore be killed.
IF we turn away now, then we turn away from the greatest hope for the Iraqis and the West to develop new relationships of deeper understandings between our cultures.
Iraq and Syrian leaders know this. Al Qaeda knows this. That is why they're fighting so hard. Once light has a presence in darkness, it will fight like hell to shut it out again.
Hilary's plan like other Democrats; Barak Hussein Obama, offer up nothing but surrender to corrupt leaders who would start the same process over again, teaching hatred. They would allow darkness to envelop Iraq again without hope and shut out the light.
The Democrats, some unknowingly, some with best intentions, offer up loser mentality and government regulation. This is why Socialist and Communist are close to Democrat agendas. The Hanoi Jane protest was supported by Communist organizations, like ANSWER.
Then it is no surprise that Putin supports Iran and opposes America. He of old KGB East German fame, wants to bring back old Communist rule. Saddam loved Stalin more than he did Allah.
They believe the government solves problems, whereas Christ teaches - we as individuals solve problems. We do not depend upon the government, or our own understanding, but on every word of the Lord.
As a result, look at the hundreds of billions that flow out of this country each year to help Africa, South America, Asia, and now, today for the first time - aid to Iraq from ordinary American citizens - becuase Saddam cannot stop the flow of love into Iraq. Iraqis are surprised and astonished of all the gifts flowing into their country from food, clothes, and so much else. We are indeed loving our enemy. This will break many hearts of stone.
This is how we win minds, influence the hearts. Protect these people long enough so they can get up on their feet, see freedom of speech, freedom of expression, religion, and that the America, that Saddam taught them every day in his controlled media is not true, that he lied and that Americans are loving, caring people who have families just like Iraqis.
Leticia, thanks, you go girl!
We're fighting on multiple informational fronts in this war. One abroad in the Middle East and Asia, and one here at home against our own Democrat party and biased media.
The American people are like sheep, to busy eating grass, consumerism run amok, they turn to their few news sources like CutNruN and see one story every day - we're losing, we're not good, America is evil.
This repetitive lie gets into their subconcious and they actually believe it after awhile.
But he that is in us is greater than he who is in this world.
We are overcomers....
Thanks to everyone's effort here! Lets keep supporting our troops for Victory!