Iraq Resolution - update
The official Roll Call is published. As predicted, our congressman, McHugh voted against it.
In contrast Jim Walsh representing the NY 25th, which includes Syracuse and part of Rochester, obviously learned his lesson in the last election where he only won by 2% points. McHugh defiantly supports Bush because he feels that he is unassailable. After all, he did win by 26% points. The voter turn out in Walsh’s election was 207,000 but only 158,000 in McHugh’s.
Opinion:
The majority of those in the 23rd want out of Iraq. What happened to representing the majority of the district? We have someone in congress but do we have a Representative. The very reason for this site is to make sure that the people of the North Country realize how they are being “represented.”
By electing a representative to Washington, we elect someone to represent us at the national level on the national issues that effect us. Just think: This war has cost us $366 Billion thus far and continues cost us $9,600,000 per hour and 100 American men and women each month. Is it worth the pittance that he claims to bring back to the district? We are going to be paying for his and his President’s folly for the rest of our lives – and so will our children.
JOE on 18 Feb 2007 at 2:00 pm #
GET OVER THERE AND GET THE JOB DONE YOU CHICKENS!!!
Mary on 20 Feb 2007 at 9:28 pm #
Hey Joe! Why don’t you go? If you believe in the Iraqi mission so strongly, you go fight. What kind of coward sends someone else there to die for them? The bush kind of coward I gather.
Publius on 21 Feb 2007 at 12:55 am #
Wesley Clark, a retired four-star general and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, received standing applause after speaking tonight to an attentive audience that filled the large Colgate University Chapel. He dismissed the so-called War on Terror as a dangerous misnomer, saying that by invading a country to catch terrorists you only create more terrorists. He called for a gradual complete withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. Addressing other issues, he identified the healthcare crisis as the top domestic priority and called for universal health insurance under a single-payer system. General Clark echoed point for point the positions staked out by Dr. Bob Johnson in his campaign to replace our inept Congressman John McHugh, who cuts and runs from the problems that face our nation at home and abroad.
Scribabrat on 23 Feb 2007 at 12:00 pm #
To Joe:
The true cowardice I see is the refusal to admit that the current administration wrongly invaded Iraq. What “job” are we to get done? WMDs? None were found. Concrete ties to the 9/11 attacks? Again, none were found. Get rid of Saddam? Done. Why should we continue to police a civil war when our troops could be better deployed elsewhere?