OREGONS SOCIALISM ON THE AGENDA

IN THE GREAT STATE OF OREGON, ONE OF THE PRETTIEST STATES IN THE U.S.. FORMER GOV. JOHN KITZHABER , CREATOR OF THE OREGON HEALTH PLAN IS SUPPORTING AN EFFORT TO MAKE HEALTH CARE A RIGHT!
THE "HOPE INITIATIVE" DRAFTED BY SENATORS ALAN BATES,BEN WETLAND AND REP. MITCH GREEENBECK WOULD AMEND THE OREGON CONSTITUTION TO SAY THAT HEALTH CARE IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT!
THE INITIATIVE THEY DRAFTED FURTHER STATES THAT THE STATE LEGISLATURE WILL DEVELOP A PLAN BY 2009. NO MENTION IN THE INITIATIVE ABOUT THE POSSIBLE COSTS.
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NOT ONLY DOES THE U.S. CONSTITUTION NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HEALTH CARE RIGHTS, BUT THIS INITIATIVE IS NOTHING MORE THAN BLANTANT SOCIALISM WHICH WOULD ROB FROM THE "HAVES" TO PAY FOR THE "HAVE NOTS".
THIS IS NOTHING MORE OR LESS BUT WHAT THE GREAT SENATOR FROM NEW YORK, HILLARY CLINTON, TRIED TO DO BEHIND CLOSED DOORS THE FIRST YEAR HER HUSBAND WAS PRESIDENT.
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I USUALLY DON'T WRITE ABOUT MYSELF IN THESE FLEDGLING ATTEMPTS TO BE A BLOGGER. BUT THIS SUBJECT IS SOMETHING I CAN WRITE ABOUT FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. A YEAR AGO THIS PAST MAY MY WIFE AND MY YOUNGEST SON WERE IN ROME FOR OUR 32 ND ANNIVERSARY WHEN I AWOKE IN A HOTEL ROOM AROUND 5AM WITH THE DREADED ELEPHANT SITTING ON MY CHEST! YES, IT WAS A HEART ATTACK! I WAS SCARED AS HELL!
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IN ITALY THEY HAVE TOTAL SOCIALIZED MEDICINE---EVEN FOR VISITORS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES. KIND OF LIKE OUR MEDICAID PROGRAM FOR ILLEGAL MEXICANS. I DID NOT KNOW THIS UNTIL I CHECKED OUT OF THE HOSPITAL 4 DAYS LATER TO FLY HOME FOR DEFINATIVE TREATMENT OF MY HEART. BUT AT ANY RATE AN AMBULANCE FINALLY CAME TO OUR HOTEL AROUND 7:30 AND TOOK ME TO A LARGE HOSPITAL NEAR THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. THE RIDE ITSELF WAS AN EXPERIENCE. SIRENS BLARING AND WEAVING IN AND OUT OF TRAFFIC I WAS LUCKY I WAS STRAPPED IN. WHEN I GOT TO SAN JACQUIMO HOSPITAL I WAS ROLLED INTO A HALLWAY WHERE I WAITED FOR 30 MIN. OR SO WHEN A NURSE WHO COULDN'T SPEAK ENGLISH TRIED TO GET MY HISTORY,ETC. FROM A MAN WHO SPEAKS SPANISH FAIRLT WELL BUT KNEW ONLY A FEW WORDS OF ITALIAN. AFTER SOME TIME THEY GAVE ME A SHOT THAT RELIEVED MY PAIN,DREW BLOOD AND ROLLED ME BACK OUT INTO THE HALLWAY WITH DOZENS OF OTHER PATIENTS. FINALLY A DOCTOR CAME TO TELL ME IN FAIRLY GOOD ENGLISH THAT YES I HAD AHEART ATTACK. HE TOLD ME THE CARDIAC CARE WARD WAS FULL, BUT HE WOULD TRY AND GET ME A BED IN THE SURGICAL WARD.
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SOME HOURS LATER I WAS TRANSPORTED TO A ROOM THAT HAD TO BE UNLOCKED BEFORE THEY COULD ROLL ME IN, AND WAS LOCKED AS SOON AS I ENTERED. HAVING OVER 30 YEARS AS AN ORAL SURGEON ON THE STAFFS OF TWO HOSPITALS I WAS SUDDENLY TRANSPORTED INTO THIRD WORLD MEDICINE! INSIDE THE ROOM WERE FOUR BEDS THREE OF WHICH WERE OCCUPIED BY MAJOR SURGERY POST OPERATIVE PATIENTS. ONE LADY HAD A MASECTOMY, ONE MAN HAD A THROAT OPERATION, AND THE THIRD WAS A LADY WHO HAD SOME TYPE OF ABDOMINAL SURGERY. I WAS THE ONLY ONE WITHOUT A HEALING WOUND.
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THE FIRST THING I NOTICED BEFORE THEY RAMED A TOO LARGE CATHETER WITHOUT LUBRICATION UP MY URETRA ,THAT MADE ME BLEED FOR TWO DAYS, WAS THAT THERE WAS JUST ONE WINDOW IN THE ROOM AND IT WAS WIDE OPEN WITH NO SCREEN ON IT! THIS WAS A ROOM FOR SURGERY PATIENTS HOPING TO RECOVER AND THE FLYS WERE MERRILY FLYING IN AND OUT OF THE WINDOW.
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AFTER THE IVs WERE INSERTED I WAS AWARE THAT ALL THE DRESSINGS REMOVED FROM THE SURGERY PATIENTS WERE BEING PLACED IN AN OPEN BOX LINED WITH A PLASTIC BAG ABOUT 4 FEET FROM MY BED NEXT TO THE LOCKED DOOR. THE IV THAT WAS PUT IN HAD PUNCTURED MY VEIN WALL AND ABOUT AN HOUR LATER MY RIGHT FOREARM WAS SWOLLEN AND HURT LIKE BLAZES. SINCE NO ONE IN THE ROOM COULD UNDERSTAND A WORD OF ENGLISH. I YELLED THE UNIVERSAL DISTRESS, "HELP" AS LOUD AS I COULD. IF I HAD KNOWN WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO "JUST GEORGE", AS THEY LEARNED TO CALL ME, WAS ABOUT TO BECOME A PIN CUSHION FOR TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE I THOUGHT WERE NURSES. I MIGHT HAVE SAID NOTHING EVEN THOUGH I KNEW IT WASN'T INSERTED CORRECTLY IF I KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO JAB ME SO MANY TIMES WITH LARGE NEEDLES. FINALLY AFTER RIPPING UP MY VEINS IN BOTH FOREARMS THEY CALLED A FEMALE DOCTOR TO HELP. SHE SPOKE ENGLISH AND HAD THE IV IN MY HAND ON THE FIRST TRY. NICE LADY, BUT I NEVER SAW HER AGAIN.
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SINCE THERE WAS NO IV INSERTED FOR ABOUT THREE HOURS THEY STARTED TO STICK ME IN THE BELLY WITH INJECTABLE HEPARIN . I VAGUELY REMEMBER 8 OR TEN JABS IN THE BELLY WHICH MADE MY STOMACK LOOK LIKE I WENT TEN ROUNDS WITH "JOE LOW BLOW" BOXER! AT DINNER TIME I LEARNED THAT THE HOSPITAL PROVIDED NEITHER FOOD NOR WATER, NOR TOILET PRODUCTS SUCH AS SOAP AND TOOTHBRUSH. THEY EXPECTED THE RELATIVES OF THE PATIENTS TO BRING IN THE FOOD,ETC. THE ONLY THING THEY PROVIDED THREE TIMES A DAY WAS A GRUEL LIKE WATERED DOWN SOUP AND 3 "ZWIEBACK" TYPE BISKETS. I LOST 12 POUND IN FOUR DAYS!
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FINALLY ON THE MORNING OF THE THIRD DAY I WAS TRANSFERED TO THE CARDIAC CARE UNIT. IT WAS LIKE GETTING BACK TO THE 21ST CENTURY! THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS THEY ONLY HAD FOUR BEDS! IN THIS LARGE VERY STERILE LOOKING ROOM WITH THE NURSES STATION BEHIND A DOOR AND LARGE WINDOWS WITH NO CALL BUTTON AT ANY BED. YOU WERE ON YOUR OWN.
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THE REAL CLOSE CALL CAME LATER THAT DAY. I HAD BEEN PUT ON AN IV DRIP OF NITROGLYCERINE AND AN IV WITH SOME NARCOTIC FOR PAIN. THERE WAS A VERY NICE CARDIOOGIST WHO COULD SPEAK ENGLISH WELL ENOUGH FOR ME TO COMMUNICATE WITH HIM, BUT HE ONLY CAME IN ONCE A DAY. THE PROBLEM DEVELOPED WHEN I TOLD HIM I WAS STILL HAVING SOME CHEST PAIN. HE ORDERED A SLIGHT INCREASE IN THE NARCOTIC AND NITROGLYCERINE DRIP. THE DRUGS MADE MY SLEEPY AND I DRIFED OFF TO SLEEP FOR HE FIRST TIME IN THREE DAYS. I WAS TOO SCARED TO FALL ASLEEP IN THE SURGERY ROOM AS THE STAFF SPENT MOST OF THEIR TIME DAY AND NIGHT BEHIND A CLOSED DOOR JUST OUTSIDE THE WARD. AT NIGHT THE "HANK-PANKY GOING ON WOULD WAKE THE DEAD!
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WHILE I WAS SLEEPING, THE SHIFTS CHANGED, AND APPARENTLY THE "NURSE" WHO HAD INCREASED MY IV DRIP HAD NOT MADE A NOTE IN MY CHART. SO WHEN THE NEW CREW CAME IN THEY INCREASDE THE AMOUNT OF NARCOTIC AN NITRO DRIP. A SHORT TIME LATER WHEN I AWOKE LUCKILY, I BEGAN TO GO BLIND. EVERYTHING GREW BLACK, AND I THOUGHT I WAS DYING! APPARENTLY MY BLOOD PREESURE DROPPED TO 50/30 AND ALL I COULD DO WAS WAVE MY HANDS AND TRY TO YELL HELP. LUCKY FOR ME A NEW NIGHT DOCTOR WAS IN THE NURSES STATION AND SAW ME WAVING FRANTICLY. HE CAME AN DAFTER CHECKING MY BLOOD PRESSURE HAD THE NURSING STAFF RAISE THE FOOT OF MY BED SO HIGH I SLIPPED UP TO THE BEDSTEAD, BUT IT SAVED MY LIFE ALONG WITH THE IV INJECTIONS OF MEDS. HE GAVE ME TO RAISE MY BLOOD PRESSURE. THAT WAS AS CLOSE AS I HAD EVER COME TO HAVING A STROKE.
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ON THE FORTH DAY MY WIFE, MY SON AND I DECIDED THIS HOSPITAL WAS DANGEROUS TO MY HEALTH AND MADE UP OUR MINDS TO FLY BACK TO THE U.S. I TOLD THE DOCTOR WHO SPOKE ENGLISH THAT I WANTED TO GO HOME BUT HE INSISTED I MUST STAY AND HAVE A HEART CATHATERIZATION IN THE MORNIG. I ASKED HIM IF I WAS IN A PRISON OR COULD I SIGN MYSELF OUT AGAINST HIS ADVICE. AFTER A LENGTHY TALK WITH HIS SUPERIORS HE BROUGHT ME THE RLEASE PAPERS TO SIGN. FOR ALL I KNOW THEY COULD BE A DEATH WARRANT OR DEED TO MY HOUSE AS THEY WERE IN ITALIAN. I SIGNED THE PAPERS AND TOOK A CAB TO THE HOTEL. THE NEXT DAY WE FLEW HOME IN A 747 WITH NITRO PATCHES CHANGED EVERY FOUR HOURS AND ROOM ENOUGH FOR ME TO LAY DOWN AND SLEEP MOST OF THE 10 HOUR FLIGHT. THUS ENDED MY EXPERIENCE WITH TOTALLY SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. SOME PEOPLE RAVE ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES IN COUNTRIES WITH SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. BUT I WILL NEVER FORGET THE NIGHTMARE THAT WAS MINE ALL FOR FREE. IT DID NOT COST A CENT!

ORWELLIAN DOUBLE SPEAK

THE USE OF THE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN WORD IS OFTEN DELIBERATELY MISREPRESENTED. PERFECT EXAMPLE S ARE FOUND IN TWO PROMINENT SOURCES. THE ADVERTISEMENTS SEEN TODAY ON TELEVISION ARE OFTEN GUILTY OF SEMANTIC MISREPRESENTATION TO SELL A POSSIBLY USELESS PRODUCT. THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA USES OUTRIGHT FALSEHOODS TO DENIGRATE THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION IN WASHINGTON, AND LEAST I FORGET THERE ARE THE POLITICIANS WHO WOULDN'T KNOW THE TRUTH IF IT BIT THEM ON THE BUTT! XXX THE INTERNET THESARUS DEFINES "FAG" AS A SHAFT, END STUMP TAIL OR TIP. ONLY THE ENCYCLOPEDIA WHICH INITALLY REFERS TO FAG AS A TEDIOUS WORK, DRUDGERY OR A CIGARETTE DOES REFER AS A POSTSCRIPT THAT USED AS A OFFENSIVE SLANG WORD IT IS" A TERM FOR A HOMOSEXUAL MAN USED IN A DISRESPECTFUL WAY". NO WHERE CAN I FIND THE HYPERBOLY USED IN THE ARTICLE ,SUPPORTING THE CHARGE THAT IT IS HATE SPEECH AS DESCRIBED IN MR. COOKS ARTICLE. THE MOST RECENT EXAMPLE OF WRITTEN WORDS USED TO DISTORT FACTS INTO A "PAPER TIGER"IS THE DIATRIBE BY MSNBC CONTRIBUTING EDITOR AND CHICAGO SUN TIME COLUMNIST BOB COOKS ARTICLE CONDEMING WHITE SOX BASEBALL MANAGER OZZIE GUILLEN FOR CALLING SPORTS WRITER JAY MARIOTTI A "FAG"! MARRIOTTI IS AN OPENLY HOMOSEXUAL PERSON IN THE FIRST PLACE WHICH PLACES HIM IN A CLASS OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE THEN THE REST OF US "STRAIGHTS". THE WORD WAS SPOKEN NOT DURING AN INTERVIEW, BUT IN A DUGOUT AT THE BALLPARK . WHICH TO MY WAY OF THINKING IS HIS HOME GROUND. XXX NOT ONLY IS MR. COOK CONDEMING MR. GUILLENS INSENSITIVITY TO HOMOSEXUALS. HE IS CALLING ON THE LEADERSHIP OF THE BASEBALL LEAGUE TO SEVERELY PUNISH GUILLEN. HE CALLS THE WORDS SPOKEN, "INFLAMMATORY HATE SPEECH", AND SAYS GUILLEN FAILS TO "UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF HOMOSEXUALITY". XXX IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ANYONE WITH A SIXTH GRADE EDUCATION KNOWS WHAT MAKES HOMOSEXUALS DIFFERENT THAN THE REST OF US IS THEY LOVE TO HAVE SEX WITH MEN. YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE "HATE IN YOUR HEART" TO ABHORE THIS LIFE STYLE. XXX I BELIEVE THE WAY EACH INDIVIDUL LEADS HIS OR HER LIFE IS GUARENTEED BY OUR CONTITUTION AS LONG AS IT IS NOT UNLAWFUL. BUT IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK AND QUACKS LIKE A DUCK IT STILL IS A DUCK. MR GIULLEN USE OF THE WORD "FAG" IS DISPESPECTUL OF ANOTHER MANS FEELINGS, BUT IN NO WAY IS IT "HATE SPEECH"! WHEN WILL THE MINORITY GROUPS REALIZE THAT THEY ARE LUCKY TO LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THEIR "DIFFERENT" LFESTYLE IS NOT ONLY TOLERATED BUT PROTECTED . IT IS THE SPECIAL TREATMENT THAT GROUPS LIKE GAYS WANT THAT BAFFLES ME. HIS ARTICLE SEEMS MORE LIKE HATE SPEECH THAN WHAT GUILLEN SAID IN THE CONFINES OF HIS DOUGOUT!

A TRAITOR BY ANY NAME!

DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR WITH THE BRITISH ARMY. A GENERAL OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS ARMY, BENEDICT ARNOLD, DECIDED HE WASN'T BEING TREATED RIGHT BY HIS SUPERIORS. HE APPLIED FOR THE POSITION OF GENERAL OF WEST POINT. A FORT HIGH ON THE BLUFFS OVER LOOKING THE HUDSON RIVER WHICH WAS A COLONIAL STRONG POSITION. HE INTENDED TO SURRENDER THIS VALUABLE DEFENSIVE POSITION TO THE BRITISH. FORTUNATELY THIS NEVER HAPPENED SO HE DESERTED AND WENT TO ENGLAND TO JOIN THEIR ARMY. THUS HE WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN MILITARY OFFICER WHO BECAME A TRAITOR .
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ALTHOUGH 1ST LT. EHREN WATADA HAS NOT DEFECTED TO THE MUSLIM TERRORISTS. HIS PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HE WILL REFUSE TO REPORT FOR DUTY WHEN HIS UNIT IS SHIPPED TO IRAQ IS IN MY OPINION AN ACT OF BETRAYAL. HE IS NOT ONLY BETRAYING HIS OATH TAKEN WHEN HE WAS COMMISSIONED AS AN ARMY OFFICER. WHICH INCLUDES IN THE OATH THESE WORDS "I WILL OBEY THE ORDERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE ORDERS OF THE OFFICERS APPOINTED OVER ME"----. HE IS BETRAYING ALL THE MEN WHO HAVE FOLLOWED ORDERS AND WERE WOUNDED OR KILLED IN ACTION CARRYING OUT THEIR ORDERS.
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IT IS ONE THING TO BE A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR. THERE WERE 87 SUCH EXEMPTIONS GRANTED DISCHARGE AS OF THE END OF 2005. BUT TO SAY YOU REFUSE TO FOLLOW ORDERS BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT, HIS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, IS WAGING AN ILLEGAL WAR SOUNDS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE THIS PERSON (CAN'T BRING MYSELF TO CALL HIM A MAN) MAY HAVE ENTERED THE ARMY A "SLEEPER" ANTI-WAR PEACE GROUP WANNABE! HOW MANY DEDICATED TERRORISTS HAVE BEEN LYING IN WAIT FOR YEARS WE MAY NEVER KNOW UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE. WHY NOT A "PEACENICK" WHO JOINS THE ARMY, GOES TO OCS JUST SO HE CAN MAKE HIS ANTI-WAR STATEMENT? THE LARGE NUMBER OF LEFTIST GROUPS, COLUMNISTS AND BLOGGERS WHO HAVE JUMPED TO HIS DEFENSE MAKES ME WONDER IF THIS WAS A LONG AGO PLANNED PERFIDY.
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WATADA HAS TAKEN THE BENEFITS AND PAY OF HIS COMMISSION FOR ALMOST 3 YEARS. NOW WHEN HIS SERVICE COMMITMENT IS DUE TO EXPIRE IN 7 OR 8 MONTHS WHY DID HE SUDDENLY DECIDE TO REFUSE A LAWFUL ORDER? HE SAYS THE BOOK BY LIBERAL WRITER JAMES BAMFORD, "PRETEXT FOR WAR" HELPED HIM MAKE HIS DECISION. BAMFORD A WELL KNOWN AUTHOR OF LIBERAL/LEFTIST BOOKS IS A VISITING PROFESSOR AT U.C. BERKLEY. WATADA MIGHT AS WELL HAVE PICKED A BOOK ABOUT AMERICAN WARS FROM A PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MOSCOW. HE WOULD GET THE SAME SLANT!
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LET HIM NOT SHOW UP FOR HIS UNIT DEPLOYMENT! HE SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH DERELICTION OF DUTY, CONDUCT UNBECOMING AN OFFICER AND POSSIBLY DESERTION. EITHER WAY THE VALIANT TROOPS FIGHTING IN IRAQ DON'T NEED A GUTLESS 90 DAY WONDER LEADING THEM INTO BATTLE!



SHAME ON YOU MR. WANADA!

NO WAY TO WIN A WAR!

THE NEWS THAT THE MARINE CORPS HAS ALLOWED THE BUILDING OF AN ISLAMIC CENTER ON THE BASE AT QUANTICO MARINE BASE IS A VERY DISTURBING PIECE OF NEWS. APPARENTLY THERE ARE SUCH MOSQUES ON OTHER US MILITARY BASES., BUT THIS ONE AT QUANTICO IS SPONSORED BY AN ISLAMIC CLERIC SCHOOLED IN THE WAHHABI DISCIPLINE. XXX WOULD WE HAVE ALLOWED A NAZI CENTER ON MILITARY BASES DURING WORLD WAR II, OR A SOVIET CENTER DURING THE COLD WAR. BOTH LIKE WAHHABI ARE QUASI-RELIGIOUS RADICAL EXTREMIST GROUPS. WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE DOES THIS SEND TO MARINES BEING TRAINED TO TRAVEL OVERSEAS TO KILL THESE TERRORISTS? XXX EVEN MORE DISTURBING IS THE CONTINUAL LITNAY OF DEMOCRATIC PROPOSALS IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS TO PASS RESOLUTIONS ASKING FOR TROOP WITHDRAWL DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE MEN ON THE "FRONT LINES" WANT TO STAY AND WIN THIS WAR! would the senate rather we fight the islamic terrorists on our soil? XXX PEOPLE LIKE CONGRESSMAN MURTHA, AN EX-MARINE COLONEL ,WHO SHOULD KNOW THAT HIS "DOVE LIKE" RETORIC IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO ALL THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AND DIED UNDER HIS COMMAND, AND A SMALL CADRE OF CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS NEED TO BE REMINDED OF TWO SAYINGS I HAVE GLEAMED FROM MY INTERNET EXPERIENCE. XXX THE FIRST IS A SIMPLE POEM: "WAKE UP DARLING CARRIE AND GO AND GET MY GUN. I AIN'T GOT TO LOOK FOR TROUBLE, BUT I'LL DIE BEFORE I RUN !".THE OTHER IS A REMINDER THAT SHOULD BE ON A PLAQUE ABOVE THE DOOR OF BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS. "NOT ONLY SUPPORT OUR MILITARY, REMEMBER THE FALLEN, AND HONOR THEIR SACRIFICE. DON'T DISGRACE THEIR DEATH BY WITHDRAWL". XXX DOVES LIKE THE APPARENTLY BRAIN DEAD MURTHA WHO STARTED HIS DEFEATISM QUEST DURING CLINTONS PRESIDENCY BY CALLING FOR WITHDRAWL IN MOGADISHU IN 1993. DO A TERRIBLE DISERVICE TO THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN FIGHTING AND TRAGICLY DYING FOR LIBERTY IN IRAQ. ESPECIALLY TO THE FALLEN! XXX THE NEWEST APPROACH TO "DEFEATISM" COMES IN THE FORM OF A PROPOSAL IN CONGRESS BY A GROUP OF LEFTIST CONGRESSMAN TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM IRAQ AND STATION THEM "WHERE THEY ARE LESS LIKELY TO COME UNDER ATTACK." WOULD THE BATTLE FOR IWO JIMA, BATTLE OF THE BULGE AND MANY OTHER WORLD WAR II BATTLES, THAT WERE MUCH MORE COSTLY IN LIVES LOST, HAVE BEEN WON WITH THIS KIND OF APPROACH? THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS. XXX IT IS LONG PAST TIME WHEN ALL AMERICANS SHOULD REALIZE THAT WE ARE IN WORLD WAR 3, AND IT WILL BE A LONG AND SOMETIMES UNFORTIUNATELY COSTLY BATTLE. BUT WHAT IS THE PRICE OF VICTORY OVER THE ENEMY. CUT AND RUN WON'T DO IT! AND CONGRESSIONAL COWARDICE ONLY GIVES AID AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY!