Re: Candidate wounded in Iraq: Bush offers 'shallow slogans'

["Petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bass why don't you post all this crap to Comp.Home.Automation too?

I am sure its only a slight mistake,don't worry I will forward it for you


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> WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Illinois congressional candidate who lost both her
> legs during combat in Iraq said Saturday that President Bush has no real
> strategy for securing the war-ravaged nation, just political talk designed
> to appeal to voters.
>
> "Instead of a plan or a strategy, we get shallow slogans like 'Mission
> Accomplished' and 'Stay the Course,"' former Army Capt. Tammy Duckworth
> said in the Democrats' weekly radio address. "Those slogans are calculated
> to win an election. But they won't help us accomplish our mission in
> Iraq."
>
> Duckworth's address served as a response to the president's weekly radio
> talk and gave the Democratic Party a chance to showcase one of its
> strongest candidates as it seeks to regain control of the House in
> November's elections.
>
> Duckworth, who copiloted a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed while under
> a rocket grenade attack almost two years ago, also criticized Bush and
> others in his administration for accusing anyone who challenges the
> president's policies of "cutting and running."
>
> "Well, I didn't cut and run, Mr. President. Like so many others, I proudly
> fought and sacrificed," Duckworth said. "My helicopter was shot down long
> after you proclaimed 'mission accomplished."'
>
> At a GOP fund-raiser Thursday in Alabama, Bush said, "The party of FDR and
> the party of Harry Truman has become the party of cut and run."
>
> Duckworth is seeking the suburban Chicago seat being vacated by
> conservative Republican Rep. Henry Hyde. She is running against Illinois
> state Sen. Peter Roskam, the man Hyde has endorsed.
>
> In her address, Duckworth, now a major in the Illinois National Guard,
> also lashed out at the GOP-led Congress for refusing to do its job of
> holding the Bush administration accountable for its flawed Iraq policy.
>
> "We need a Congress that will ask the tough questions and work together
> for solutions rather than attacking the patriotism of those who disagree,"
> she said. "It is time to encourage Iraqi leaders to take control of their
> own county and make the tough choices that will stop the civil war and
> stabilize the country."
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> Copyright 2006 The Associated Press
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