If so many senators dilike the war in Iraq, then why do they keep voting against troop withdrawl?

Question

I'm a sergeant in the Army, and I am totally against the war. I have been over there myself and I witnessed first hand that we do not need to be over there for any reason. Many senators have also showed uneasiness with the war and have wanted to get out, yet the vote yesterday shows than only 29 of them want to get out. I don't understand it, is it a money thing. Is everyone in congress making too much money from the war to vote to get out?

Answer 1

THANK BUSH

Answer 2

Its all politics as usual to them. They dont want to rock the boat. In other words, they have no balls!

My candidate for President, (former Sen. Mike Gravel) back in '71 waged a one-man filibuster for 5 months and basically forced Nixon to end the draft. Thats the kind of tough tactics we need right now!

Gravel just released his peace legislation a few days ago. I'll give you a link to where you can learn about it, and if you support it, write to your Senators and Representative and tell them that you want them to vote for it! I dont think we can expect the Congress to do anything by themselves. We as Americans need to pressure them into ending this war.


www.Gravel2008.us (His campaign website)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op4-vtduH8Q (Gravel releasing and explaining his new Withdrawal Act. Listen to what he says on the Congress and youll have the answer to your question)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IktSXtLE5JU&mode=related&search= (Gravel being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer)

Answer 3

The wealthy elite (and their representatives in congress) don't want to get out of Iraq but the American people do. Thus a faction of the politicians are forced to appear to promote the end of the war in an effort to avoid a public revolt.

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'War Is a Racket'

Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933 by General Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC. General Butler was the recipient of two Congressional Medals of Honor - one of only two Marines so honored.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. . . .

There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. . . .

Answer 4

the president keeps vetoing it