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Gates, Rice defend US-Iraq security agreement
Both Rice and Gates have said they would not be pushing the agreement if they did not fully support it, but members of Congress, including Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., are troubled by some provisions and said they have had little time to review the agreement.
"Here we are with the clock ticking, running out. There's been no input from Congress and the American people have been kept in the dark," said Delahunt, who was chairing a hearing on the issue Wednesday ahead of the testimony from Rice and Gates. "I still have serious reservations about this agreement."
Delahunt and others, notably House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton, D-Mo., have expressed concern about the "vague" nature of the agreement.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., said he has some concerns about the agreement, particularly on the provisions providing immunity for U.S. troops and authorizing US combat operations. He would not elaborate, citing classification concerns.
But South CarolinaRepublican Sen. Lindsay Graham said he is not concerned about the provisions in the agreement that give the Iraqi government the right to prosecute U.S. troops for crimes committed when they are off duty and off base.
"We decide when someone's off duty, off base," he said.
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Posted By: KReviewerH @ 09/10/2008 4:00:21 PM
Comment: I, being from Arizona, find it funny that you bring this up Harleyis Here. McCain's absences have long gone unnoticed by us Arizonans. I agree with you 100%. McCain uses his POW status as making him a better leader. Explain how this works? And this is not a bash in any way to POWs. I simply ask how being held captive makes you a leader? I plan to press our Arizona Republic as to what his absences are implying: Another Bush on vacation most of his presidency while the country tries to run on empty.
Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/25/2008 1:50:40 AM
Comment: Awe repigs, you're confused, if you don't vote for Obama, you a MORON not a racist. If you call him a MUSLIM, knowing he is not...you're a racist. If you're in that group of "older white males" who refuse to hear him, you're a racist.
As for "experience" ther are several 4 Star and lower Generals who say that being a prisoner does NOT a president make...and given mccains attendance record or rather his absence record of 61% gone, his congressional experience is questionable at best. Add to that the fact that for 8 yrs he has sided with bush 95% of the time and here goes the figures ;) :
25 yrs in congress
Present 38% of the time = 9.5 yrs out of 25yrs
VOTED with bush 95% of 8yrs = 7.5 yrs out of 8 (for a total of 6 mos out of 8yrs mccain did not agree with bush)
Let's see our final number shall we.
Time in congress where mccain was just mccain and not a lap dog for bush = 2.5yrs
2.5yrs of actual attendance that was not just BUSH yrs, hmmm who else has just over 2.5 yrs senatorial experience less all the corruption of a John McCain...hmmmm..
Posted By: HarleyisHere @ 08/22/2008 3:57:55 PM
Comment: Yeah like some cool movie you just watched with a certian GOV in it right, just kill them that solves everything...yeah KILL KILL KILL! Oh all most forgot, DRILL DRILL DRILL too ;)
In side the mind of a repeaterchic.