McGovern to Meet With Congress on War

[DeclinetoState]

LINCOLN, Neb.

By OSKAR GARCIA
Associated Press Writer


George McGovern, the former senator and Democratic presidential candidate, said Thursday that he will meet with more than 60 members of Congress next week to recommend a strategy to remove U.S. troops from Iraq by June.

If Democrats don't take steps to end the war in Iraq soon, they won't be in power very long, McGovern told reporters before a speech at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Breitbart.com (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/09/D8LA01L00.html)

Yes, George McG. is still alive. If he's giving Congress advice (and the Congresscritters accept it), we're doomed.

[DesertFox]

George would go there on his knees.

[DeclinetoState]

The fellow couldn't even unite his party against a marginally popular president in '72, and got trounced in a landslide. Even though some people believe McGovern lost because of information Nixon's team stole in the Watergate break-in, the fact is that the Watergate burglars were looking for dirt on Ted Kennedy (why, I don't know, as Chappaquiddick was not exactly a state secret even then) or possibly other, more electable, Democrats.

If Republicans are smart now, they'll simply let the Democrats implode, just as they've done in the past. Unfortunately, I fear the GOP will try (and succeed) in imploding faster by '08, especially if McCain becomes the frontrunner.

:(

[TSawyer2112]

I believe Fox News was showing McGovern and Wes Clark shaking hands. What a pair. And to think that guy led our troops.

[DesertFox]

Make a man wanna :barf:

[dajoga]

I believe Fox News was showing McGovern and Wes Clark shaking hands. What a pair. And to think that guy led our troops.


First Jimmah Cartah, and now McGovern--the two biggest losers the 'rats have produced--and the 'rats get mad when I talk about the lunatic left?

[d'urville]

I'm sure the great statesman Jimmy Carter will weigh in soon, foreign policy experts are like that, you know.

George McGovern, George McGovern...image of a dove comes to mind at the mention of the name. And a socialist.

McGovern will present his recommendations before the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a 62-member group led by Reps. Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee.

So McGovern's meeting with the most radical members of the House to present his suggestions on how to deal with Iraq?


"The best way to reduce this insurgency is to get the American forces out of there," McGovern said. "That's what's driving this insurgency."


He'll get his way and the American troops will stop provoking the terrorists.

McGovern told the audience Thursday that the Iraq and Vietnam wars were equally "foolish enterprises" and that the current threat of terrorism developed because _ not before _ the United States went into Iraq.

Half right. The current level of terrorism developed because_not before_the United States voted his party into power last week.


"I've talked with a lot of senior officers _ generals and admirals _ in preparation for this book, that say this war can't be won, that the problems now are not military problems," McGovern told reporters. "There isn't going to be any decisive victory in Iraq."


Dead wrong here, there is going to be a decisive victory in Iraq for al-queda.

[BarkleUSA]

The Democrats can never permit a victory in Iraq because that would prove that Vietnam could have been won had we maintained our political will. After Saigon fell nearly a million were slaughtered wholesale in Laos and Cambodia as well an estimated 300,000 South Vietnamese seen as sympathizers to the west.

McGovern can now lead the Democrats, 110 of whom voted to get us into Iraq, in orchestrating a similar pullout and bloodbath pissing all over our flag and sacrifices made.

The way I look at this, just like in Vietnam, we won hands down in Fallujah, Najaf, the Second Fallujah, Ramadi, Tal Afar - every time we engage them we kick their ass. In the initial invasion from mid-March to May 1, 2003, US and British forces killed insurgents at a rate of 60-1. Even now it remains steady around 16-1. Why is it that WE are the ones demoralized and loosing confidence looking at this like a quagmire while the terrorists are emboldened proclaiming great progress and seeing victory on the near horizon?

Could it be because McGovern and the Cut’n Run Democrats have already concluded that we can’t win?

Iraq will only end like Vietnam if we buy into McGovern and the Democrats self-fulfilling prophecy of shame and defeat. The only thing driving the insurgents, giving them hope in the face of loosing every single battle is the Democratic Party in America.