Tim Ryan: Iraq Debate-"Self-Proclaimed Pro-Life Party Is Party That Wants To Extend War"

[kpete]

Tim Ryan owns the Iraq debate

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zx463pjcwA&eurl=

As we approach the final day of the debate on this resolution, I have enjoyed the debate thoroughly; I have found it humorous at times...

Our friends on the other side of the aisle have tried every argument they could muster; they've talked about President Clinton; they've talked about Vietnam; they're trying to bring up Israel;

And my friend from Indiana also mentioned something about the issue of consistency; and I find it funny that the pro-life-- the self-proclaimed pro-life party is the party that wants to keep extending the war.

I find it ironic that all of the great budget hawks of the Republican Party want to throw 8 billion dollars a month to keep going and going and going as we borrow the money from China;

But I also found the debate at times disappointing; where members of the other side have questioned our side; when they've said 'Whose side are we on?' and 'How can we say that we support the troops?' and that we're somehow unpatriotic.

And I would just like to say that, you know, when the Republican Party and this President didn't send enough troops, we didn't call you unpatriotic; and when you sent our young soldiers over there without the body armor, we never called you unpatriotic.

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So if you vote against this resolution, you're voting to send our troops over there without the proper equipment. Before it could be excused. Because we trusted the president and assumed, but now we know.

And finally, Mr. Speaker, we've heard a lot over the past couple days about the American Revolution, and the Civil War, and World War Two. Well Mr. Speaker, our President today is not Washington, he is not Lincoln, and he is not Roosevelt. And so I think our Republican colleagues should take the advice of the Secretary of Defense, and that is YOU GO TO WAR WITH THE PRESIDENT YOU HAVE. You don't go to war with the President you wish you had.

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/2/16/11256/2058

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. K & R for Tim Ryan. This is powerful stuff. He sure hit some RW nerves with

his comments. Excellent. :kick: MKJ

[Klukie]

2. I watched him in the wee hours of the night.....

boy he kicked ass! I wish every member would speak as he did.

[keta11]

3. Sweeeeeeet!!!

[rhino47]

4. The point of sending the troops lacking what they need

was so well done!
As a side note I can not get it to play after the 5 min mark.
Do you know who called for parliamentary inquiry?

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. YES!

..and when you sent our young soldiers over there without the body armor, we never called you unpatriotic. :wow:

Somehow, I think this will be lost on those on the other side of the aisle.:shrug:

[cmd]

6. Tim is a pro-life Democrat

I guess this gives his argument more leverage. I just wish he had a different opinion on choice.

[IronLionZion]

12. He voted YES on embryonic stem cell research

http://www.ontheissues.org/OH/Tim_Ryan.htm

thank you for not calling him "anti-choice".

[cmd]

13. I greatly admire Tim Ryan

and hope that one day he will change his position on choice.

[In Truth We Trust]

7. Oh Yeah! Smoke em and stick their hypocricy up their collective asses

[oasis]

8. Choice words for the GOP herd. k&r

[nonconformist]

9. Isn't Tim Ryan the guy that had that glorious rant on the House floor a year or two ago

about how no wonder young people think a draft may be coming even though they were denying it, seeing that they lie about everything?

I love that guy!

[mod mom]

10. EXCELLENT! We in OH get a lot of flack over our corrupt politicians but do not

forget we are also the home of TIM RYAN, DENNIS KUCINICH AND STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES! (also, of course, Kerry won Ohio and many of us stood up to fight the illegitimate regime that currently occupies the WH)

[Dawgs]

11. One of my top two or three favorite congresspersons.

I love this guy.