Sestak tells Delay to stop banging his head against the wall
By: John Amato on Sunday, March 18th, 2007 at 5:15 PM - PDT Submit or Digg this Post
FMR. REP. DeLAY: "This is hard, so I want to surrender."
REP. SESTAK: Absolutely not.
FMR. REP. DeLAY: That's exactly what it is.
REP. SESTAK: You never just keep banging your head against the wall, we learn in the military. Is there a better way to go about it? And that's what this bill does is it takes the last leverage we have to make it happen.
MR. RUSSERT: But setting a date for–is setting a date for withdrawal…
FMR. REP. DeLAY: …every step of the day, undermine–I think it's aiding and abetting the enemy. When you tell the enemy what your strategy is, that's aiding and abetting the enemy because they can use that strategy to come back and harm your soldiers.
REP. SESTAK: Tim, I spent 31 years in the service of our nation leading men and women into combat in war. And I always assumed, at least I always hoped, that the men and women back here, the policy makers, day in and day out, were spending hours, weeks, debating about the best use of this national treasure. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said it best a few weeks ago when he said, as someone asked him about this debate and what's going on in the House, he said, "Our men and women of our military are educated. They understand the democratic process." I remember when working for President Clinton as director of defense policy, when I didn't agree with you, Tom, but that there was the Buyer Amendment to stop in a year any more funding for our troops in Bosnia. And then there was, in 1999, the effort not to place any more troops not–in Kosovo. While I may have disagreed with you, I respected your office, that that is the constitutional duty of Congress, to take pride for the common defense.
Taylor Marsh picked that up as well.
Let's see, an indicted Republican versus a former admiral. Hmmm… It's such a hard choice, isn't it? Tom Delay is the best they've got? It's embarrassing for Republicans and equally embarrassing for NBC and Tim Russert that they had to go to Delay to carry the Republicans' water.
MSNBC has the full transcript…
Nico: At one point, DeLay claimed that places like Bahrain and Qatar wouldn’t accept U.S. troops who had redeployed out of Iraq. Sestak put his hand on DeLay’s arm and informed him that the U.S. military already has bases in those countries.
Later, Perle made the incredible statement that “‘Redeploy’ is a euphemism for cut-and-run.†Note to Perle: redeployment is an official military term (see this entry in the Pentagon’s Dictionary of Military Terms). “Cut and run†is the euphemism, and a tired and false one at that.
via Crooks and Liars
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/18/sestak-tells-delay-to-stop-banging-his-head-against-the-wall/
