Comments on: Senate Dem Leaders Nix Iraq Budget Cuts

Sen. Reid Rejects Idea Of Cutting $20 Billion From President Bush's Funding Request For Next Year

[davek455]

Pelosi for president!!! She's got some big ones!

[formrusmcsgt]

This is what we voted these people in to do? Bicker among themselves so nothing is accomplished?

The neocons must be laughing up their sleeves as in"you fools wanted the majority and now that you have, you don't have clue as to what to do with it". Downright sickening.

[tuckerndfw]

Good thing voters demanded a change last November.

Unfortunately, we had no realistic choices to effect that change. So, now we have war mongering & profiteering Rebublicans and hand wringing war profiteering Democrats.

If Dems can't deliver, they need to join with Repubs and stop pretending to be an opposition party. The US is currently a corporate dictatorship without representative government.

The vast majority of Americans want US troops out of Iraq. So, when is the government going to begin representing most Americans rather than global corporations?

[bluestardad]

More Stalling tactics from the Cowardly Democrats! Time to change Leadership NOW!

But if you remember this very reason is why Steny Hoyer was selected over John Murtha for the Leadership position. Bush can push Hoyer to do what Bush wants.

Write your Representatives and Senators!

SHOW THEM YOUR DISDAIN OF THEIR COWARDOUS ACTIONS WHILE OUR TROOPS ARE DYING!

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

Here is the House Speakers email address:

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[Syndicate]

"millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" Thomas Jefferson.

Sounds like a neocon to me. Not that thats a bad thing.

[j-whitman]

Gunner,,,, Are you aware our marines never made it to Tripoli ??? They came close, but no cigar... Peace, got in thier way.

[gunnerv1]

Jefferson's victory over the Muslims lives on today in the Marine
Hymn, with the line, "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores
of Tripoli, we will fight our country's battles on the land as on
the sea."
It wasn't until 1815 that the problem was fully settled by the
total defeat of all the Muslim slave trading pirates.
Jefferson had been right. The "medium of war" was the only way to
put and end to the Muslim problem. Mr. Ellison was right about
Jefferson. He was a "visionary" wise enough to read and learn
about the enemy from their own Muslim book of jihad.
Remember The islamist mineset is still in the 12 century! You'll thank me later is you have the BAL*S to read this allthw way!

URL: http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan07/jeff_quran.htm

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[gunnerv1]

_________ Not long after Jefferson's inauguration as president in 1801, he
dispatched a group of frigates to defend American interests in
the Mediterranean, and informed Congress.
Declaring that America was going to spend "millions for defense
but not one cent for tribute," Jefferson pressed the issue by
deploying American Marines and many of America's best warships to
the Muslim Barbary Coast.
The USS Constitution, USS Constellation, USS Philadelphia, USS
Chesapeake, USS Argus, USS Syren and USS Intrepid all saw action.
In 1805, American Marines marched across the dessert from Egypt
into Tripolitania, forcing the surrender of Tripoli and the
freeing of all American slaves.
During the Jefferson administration, the Muslim Barbary States,
crumbling as a result of intense American naval bombardment and
on shore raids by Marines, finally officially agreed to abandon
slavery and piracy. ______________

[gunnerv1]

The Americans wanted to negotiate a peace treaty based on
Congress' vote to appease.
During the meeting Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador
why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with
which they had no previous contacts.
In a later meeting with the American Congress, the two future
presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja
had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their
Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who
should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that
it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they
could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as
Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain
in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."
For the following 15 years, the American government paid the
Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American
ships or the return of American hostages. The payments in ransom
and tribute amounted to 20 percent of United States government
annual revenues

[gunnerv1]

Because American commerce in the Mediterranean was being
destroyed by the pirates, the Continental Congress agreed in 1784
to negotiate treaties with the four Barbary States. Congress
appointed a special commission consisting of John Adams, Thomas
Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, to oversee the negotiations.
Lacking the ability to protect its merchant ships in the
Mediterranean, the new America government tried to appease the
Muslim slavers by agreeing to pay tribute and ransoms in order to
retrieve seized American ships and buy the freedom of enslaved
sailors.
Adams argued in favor of paying tribute as the cheapest way to
get American commerce in the Mediterranean moving again.
Jefferson was opposed. He believed there would be no end to the
demands for tribute and wanted matters settled "through the
medium of war." He proposed a league of trading nations to force
an end to Muslim piracy.
In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and
Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London
with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the "Dey of Algiers" ambassador
to Britain.