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Posted by: Beau7890 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Congressman Patrick McHenry is having a bad week. First, the bellicose, 32-year-old chickenhawk from North Carolina got in trouble for calling a Green Zone sentry a "two-bit security guard" while in Iraq--a statement for which he was later forced to apologize. As if that weren't bad enough, he's now in serious trouble for trying to act li

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Shadowolf4 months, 3 weeks ago

Let's put him in Iraq for 30 days with no more protection than an infantryman gets...how many days will he last???
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sinophil494 months, 3 weeks ago

What McHenry did in Iraq is typical of the disdain that Republicans have for our soldiers. Remember Rumsfeld's defense of why soldiers had inadequate body armor and un-reinforced humvees. He said you go to war w/ what you have not w/ what you wish you had. So Rumsfeld is saying he doesn't care for the safety of his men. He is ordering the GI's into battle, even though the safer equipment was available and planning had taken months. What's another month or 2 of waiting for the better equipment since there was no urgency to start the war by any deadline?
The behaviors of McHenry and of the Bush administration are shameful and despicable.
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