Senate Armed Services Cmte hearing on CSPAN 3

[Norquist Nemesis]

http://www.cspan.org/watch/cs_cspan3_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3

Just an FYI. Levin Q&A on now--We're in the same situation now that we were then. Promises promises with no consequences

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Now McCain's up

Asking if we'll know in two months. Gates is taking another softball. :(

[Monkeyman]

2. Dam I just don't get John this is Vietnam all over again

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. He wants to be Prez sooooo bad. Kennedy up now

[lancdem]

3. Does McCain really believe this is going to work

or is he just doing this to suck up to the wingnuts who still support the war, hoping to get their primary votes?

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. No, he doesn't. He's calling for MORE, MORE, MORE!

That way he can go on the campaign trail saying they didn't listen to him and that's why they failed.

Yes, folks! John McCain wants the US to fail.

[lancdem]

6. I've read elsewhere that he didn't expect Bush

to adopt escalation; he was planning to campaign by saying, "They didn't try it my way, and looked what happened." Now he has to out-Bush Bush, I guess.

[Monkeyman]

7. Dam I wish Ted was harder on him

[lancdem]

8. I think the fact that it's Gates and not Rice

makes a difference. He's not complicit in the mess the way she is, because he just came on board.

[Norquist Nemesis]

9. uh-oh...Pace: We have no need to cross the Iranian border

(Especially when we can lob missiles in from aircraft carriers)

Warner lecturing them pretty sternly about not getting in the middle of sectarian violence.

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. Oh, goody. Lieberman up now.

Excuse me while I :puke:

[Norquist Nemesis]

12. "I support the President's plan. I think that those who don't support

his plan have an obligation to offer a plan of their own."

UGH! Do these people ever listen??? REDEPLOYMENT YOU FUCKWIT!!!

[lancdem]

15. Something is very amiss here

A Democrat from a heavily Democratic state is supporting a disastrous plan put forward by a president with approval ratings in the low 30s. I wonder if Holy Joe feels he owes the WH for "helping" him win in CT. Otherwise, he's just totally off his rocker.

[Norquist Nemesis]

43. He's giving him a pass on Katrina too!!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3052906&mesg_id=3052906

[bdamomma]

11. Oh I do not trust Lieberman at all he has kissed bush's ass many

times just like McCain. What a kiss up. Joe can shut the fuck up, we have a plan to get out that is the plan.

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. Lieberman: "Consider the alternative plan to stop funding"

Wait a minute! He just said critics haven't offered alternative plans. :crazy:

[bdamomma]

14. Joe can go to hell, who is this talking now?

and we do have a plan TO GET OUT.

[bdamomma]

16. you go, Senator Byrd, and get a kleenex for your nose!!

[annabanana]

17. Senator Byrd is up now

He seems to have a bad cold. His nose is giving him trouble. (Stay healthy,Robert!!)

[bdamomma]

19. I hope he got his flu shot!!

[annabanana]

18. He's quoting the ISG report. .

Pres is not acknowledging the new reality on the ground

[annabanana]

20. Gates said there's actually 6 wars in Baghdad now. .

Sunni vs Shia, Sunny vs Sunni, Shia vs Shia.. dragging in Hezbollah, Iranian, Syria, Al-Qauida etc

[Monkeyman]

21. Gates we are fighting 4 wars in Iraq ???

[annabanana]

22. "Any military action against Iran should be last resort"

But now pres seems to have placed diplomacy on back burner... AGAIN

Asks what is this Iran talk

[bdamomma]

23. Byrd is giving it to them

Gates and Pace are liars too. They are part of the game, last resort, going into Iran will be the last resort they said the same thing on Iraq.

Talking about Somalia, these Senate Committee Members will realize they unleashed a madman.

[annabanana]

24. Gates dancing around question about "Will we cross the border?

He said.. "no need to cross border". .

(they said the same about Cambodia IIRC)

[annabanana]

25. What was authority for Somalia air strikes?

[Norquist Nemesis]

28. Whoa!!! He's nailing them on that one!

[bdamomma]

32. yea who are those intelligence members who gave the authority

for this, we have four wars going on Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and hopefully not Iran.

Who is this talking?

[Norquist Nemesis]

37. Oh, no. It's only one war.

Global, but still only one. That's why you don't/won't hear Bush say the words "War in Iraq". He always says the "War on Terror".

Not what we signed up for or what Congress authorized; but they've let him get away with it.

[annabanana]

26. "an order a couple of years ago.."

was "sufficient" for Pace

[maddezmom]

27. Byrd asking about what authority the US military had to take military action in Somalia

[Norquist Nemesis]

33. Pace turned white as a sheet! Notice that the 'proper members'

of Congress were briefed when Rummy was there? So, before the beginning of November!

[LSK]

29. didnt Gates say he didnt know much about Iraq yesterday?

[annabanana]

30. Byrd asks who was breifed. .

Pace will "look it up"

[Norquist Nemesis]

34. It was likely only Cons, too!

It happened while Rummy was still there!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

47. I hope someone follows up with this line of questioning. It was wonderful that Byrd brought it up!

[annabanana]

31. Sessions up now.. I am taking a break

[halobeam]

36. thanks for keeping the notes here for those missing this....

appreciated. (well earned break btw)..

[Norquist Nemesis]

39. Thanks, Anna! You deserve it

I've had it on and listening, but abandoned the thread because it didn't seem to be generating any interest. Thank you!

[Monkeyman]

35. Softball time Jeff will never grow up

[Monkeyman]

38. Dam Pace is a Jarhead all the way I am not kidding this time

[Monkeyman]

40. What a air head Jeff said Iraq is not a loss cause

[bdamomma]

41. My Senator Reed is up is he not for this escalation. I called his

office yesterday.

[bdamomma]

42. this is such BS we just need to get out. Gates and Pace

are Bush's Yes men. Tis is all so wrong, these troops need to get out.

[maddezmom]

44. did I just hear Kurds are going to be going to Baghdad?

[Monkeyman]

45. I heard that crap

[bdamomma]

46. this is such BS.