If comments not supporting the war shows nonsupport for the troops why did Repugs say the following

[Jack from Charlotte]

about Bosnia?


http://www.democrats.org/pdfs/gop_kosovo.pdf

"You can support the troops but not the president."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years."
--Joe Scarborough (R-FL)

"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?"
--Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99

" President . . . is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy."
--Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)

"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy."
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy."
--Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W Bush

"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area."
--Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)

"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"
--Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
--Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)

"But consultations with and briefings of the Congress are absolutely necessary to make sure that the people, through their representatives, understand every phase of this, including the exit strategy, which is so important in the commitment of troops around the world. Rep. George Gekas, R-Pennsylvania Arf!


"...the president must define a mission, a goal and an exit strategy for our troops before sending them into another mess." Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas Arf!


"America has no vital interest in whose flag flies over Kosovo's capital, and no right to attack and kill Serb soldiers fighting on their own soil to preserve the territorial integrity of their own country." Pat Buchanan. Barf!



Funny thing is, we won that war without a single death.

That while American bombers were in the air, Delay was leading an effort on the floor of the House of Representatives to oppose the war (pdf), including voting down a resolution supporting the troops S. Con. 21:

That the President of the United States is authorized to conduct military air operations and missile strikes in cooperation with our NATO allies against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

There were a whole lot of "patriotic" Republican Senators voting against the resolution in both the House and Senate:
-Senate Roll Call
-House Roll Call



"It is a remarkable spectacle to see the Clinton Administration and NATO taking over from the Soviet Union the role of sponsoring "wars of national liberation."
-Representative Helen Chenoweth (R-ID)

"This is President Clinton's war, and when he falls flat on his face, that's his problem."
-Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN)

"You can support the troops but not the president"
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)

"My job as majority leader is be supportive of our troops, try to have input as decisions are made and to look at those decisions after they're made ... not to march in lock step with everything the president decides to do."
-Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)

"These international war criminals were led by Gen. Wesley Clark ... who clicked his shiny heels for the commander-in-grief, Bill Clinton."
-Michael Savage

[NanceGreggs]

1. Great little collection, isn't it?

K & R - and thanks for posting!

[Jack from Charlotte]

2. Someone needs to quotes these Republics on The House floor. (NFM)

*

[corkhead]

4. good thing a lot of them are already out of politics, deservedly

[NanceGreggs]

8. Oh, you are so right!

Good God, can you imagine the stammering, the hemming, the hawing, that would ensue? The ULTIMATE YouTube clip!!!

[walldude]

3. Good collection.. K&R

always best to use their own words against them...

[Old and In the Way]

5. Watch the Republicans do a 180 when the next Democratic President is elected.

The War on Terror, Unitary Executive, wiretapping, etc. It'll make your head spin.

[UrbScotty]

6. Savage makes me support Clark even more. (nt)

[magellan]

7. Simple, because Clinton was a Democrat

It doesn't get any deeper than that with the RW.

[damntexdem]

9. That was THAT WAR and THOSE TROOPS.

Now, they're talking about THIS WAR and THESE TROOPS.

See the difference? ;-)

[Jack from Charlotte]

10. The Repugs voted to cut off funding of all military operations.......

for Yugoslavia for the year, 2000 in 1999 in the House Armed Services Committee.

Someone needs to remind the MSM or KO or someone about that.

It's here in this pdf. I'd cut and paste the paragraph about Repugs cutting funding but can't or don't know how on this pdf.



http://www.democrats.org/pdfs/gop_kosovo.pdf

[treestar]

11. Hypocrites, as always

:kick:

[Marr]

12. Because 9-11 changed everything.©

Nothing before 9-11 can be cited as precedent in any way. Not the Magna Carta, nor the thousand years following it, not WW2 oversight hearings, nothing. All irrelevant. Now follow the Leader!

[eridani]

13. And what did "winning" mean?

Depleted uranium all over the Balkans, a permanent Camp Bondsteel set up there, all state or employee-owned factories destroyed, but not one owned by foreign interests. And this is supposed to be good just because we didn't lose American lives? Spare me.

You might ask yourselves whatthefuck a demand (in order to avoid war) to privatize state enterprises has to do with ethnic cleansing. Or why something oculd not have been made of the Serbian Parliament (2/3 of whose members belonged to parties opposing Milosevic) proposal to designate Kosovo as a UN protectorate.

The quote are sure worth saving as an illustration of the utterly crackpot partisanship of the Republicans--they won't even support their own elite's imperial policy if it's implemented by a Democrat!