Sunday, November 12, 2006

Ryan and Sensenbrenner insult our troops

Two Wisconsin Republican Congressmen had statements recently that are so insulting to our troops and our nation that they should be asked a few more questions about the statements before being allowed to pretend they were on the correct side of this issue a few days after the election was over.
The president's decision to bring new leadership to the Defense Department is the right thing to do, and it's a change that's overdue.
-- U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, responding to the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

The war has been mismanaged.--GOP U.S. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner.

Really? Do you think those statements might have been helpful a few months or even a year or so ago? Do you think if you and a few more Republicans would have spoken up a long time ago that we could have changed the path of the war sooner?

Just how long have these two felt like this and looked the other way while the war raged on and soldiers died so they could try to protect their party going into the election? Ryan says it's overdue so he must have been thinking this for a while but kept silent. Keeping that to himself for five minutes was too long when you are talking about people dying.

1 Comments:

At 3:57 PM, Blogger jw said...

Nice of Paul Ryan to speak up now. Changes were "overdue", eh?

Carrie is spot on. Ryan knew this ages ago and, being the consummate follower and party man, said nothing. Troops died and tax dollars were spent, and he still said nothing.

When your seat is in a safe district, you can skate. You don't need fresh ideas, and war and other unpleasantness can remain abstractions, at least until the political winds change.

Ryan may fly under the radar, but he is as guilty as any other "stay the course" shill, knowing damn well how far off course we've been all this time.

 

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