Stay and Pay - Murtha gave the Dems the counter to Cut and Run

[RamboLiberal]

We are the targets. We are causing the problem. You know who wants us to stay in Iraq right now, the al Qaeda wants us there because it recruits people for them. China wants us there. North Korea wants us there. Russia wants us there. We are depleting our resources, just like Russia depleted their resources in Afghanistan. The same thing is happening with the United States. We will have spent $450 billion by the end of this fiscal year. Now think, the first gulf war we spent $5 billion. We have spent $450 billion.

Stay and we will pay, not only pay in dollars, in money; we are going to pay long term.

I figure it took us through the Reagan administration to pay for the Vietnam War. We had 18 to 21 percent interest rates during the Reagan administration, and the reason we did was because Lyndon Johnson, the President of the United States, said we can have butter and we can have guns, and he didn't raise the taxes he should have raised when we had the war going on.

So we continue to pay with lives lost in terms of financial treasure and more than $8 billion a month. We pay in terms of international reputation. We pay in terms of the future of our military. We stay and pay. I say redeploy and be ready.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/37707/

IMHO that's what the Dems need to repeat over and over to counter Rove and the Chickenhawk Repukes. That and they sit on their fat behinds in air-conditioned offices!

[quaoar]

1. Stay and pray

Stay in Iraq and pray that the whole place doesn't blow up.

[napi21]

2. That's a GREAT bumper sticker too!

There was an earlier post here on DU that will also make A great one.

"HAD ENOUGH YET?"

I think I'm going to check on getting some of each printed:

"HAD ENOUGH YET!"

"STAY & PAY or BRING 'EM HOME"

[DeepModem Mom]

3. "In blood and treasure." nt

[snowbear]

4. Stay, pay, and pray...

..like Hell!

Kudos to Murtha! ~ :patriot: ~

[Auntie Bush]

8. Hey! I was going to post that!

Great minds think alike!

[gulliver]

5. Funny. Not enough.

Murtha also struck the right note by calling out Karl Rove directly and personally. The slogan is funny, but the proper response to "cut and run" is "You people screwed up. You know it. Everyone knows it."

[bklyncowgirl]

6. I like stay & bleed myself but stay & pay works too.

[doc03]

7. Blood and Guts Bush "his guts your blood"

That's what an old WWII veteran I used to work with said about "Old Blood and Guts Patton" that he served under.