Tim Sumner

Iraq, Support our troops

How you can support General Petraeus

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HotAir.com provided a link to where you can add your name and a note to a thank you card to General Petraeus. It is via Senator Mitch McConnell’s web site and it sends you a receipt confirmation email in return. Ed Morrissey at HA writes:

Remember the reception that General David Petraeus received the last time he reported to Congress on the status of the Iraq mission? He had one Senator call him a liar to his face — a Senator that wants to be President, but has found it rougher going than she predicted. A major political organization that supports and is supported by many Democrats took out a full-page ad in the New York Times implying that Petraeus was a traitor, using a playground slur on his surname.

General Petraeus returns to Congress this week, a chastised Congress that has tried its best to avoid the Iraq debate ever since Petraeus proved them wrong in the fall and winter, but one that will undoubtedly remain hostile. Nancy Pelosi has already tried telling Petraeus that he’d better deliver a negative report — or else. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wants Petraeus to have a better welcome back to the US for his report.

Here is the link.

9/11, Political wind

A comment about Arizona’s 9/11 memorial

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We received the following comment from a family member today about Arizona’s 9/11 memorial that a blame-America-first commission placed its political views upon:

It is a shame that a Memorial has turned into this mess. I stop by every now and then and look at it. I go, get annoyed and wind up feeling sad that a place where I thought I could go and think about my brother has become an insult to all that were lost.

The names of all the fools on the “Commission” are listed on the Memorial but the victims’ names are nowhere to be found [emphasis added mine].

I asked to be on the Commission and was turned down. I asked if I could do something when it was dedicated and never got a response back. It has become a political fight over the power and control. I hope they remove the steel from the WTC. It does not belong with this so called Memorial. If it is to remain, I would like to see it renamed to the 9-11 talking point display. A Memorial it is not.

Gary, I’m sorry. I’m still trying to do what I can to change things. There are 2986 souls that the commission will have to answer to. When you get to meet then, tell them how you feel!

John Herold
brother of Gary Herold

Update: If you looked at the article I linked to in the first paragraph of this post and are hopeful that the legislation will now pass the Arizona Senate, Governor Janet Napolitano must then sign it into law. This is what she said on the subject to a caller into an Arizona radio station, in September 2006:

I’m going to look up Gov. Napolitano’s office number and make an otherwise respectful phone call … here they are.

Telephone (602) 542-4331
Toll Free 1-(800) 253-0883 (available only to those in Arizona)
Fax (602) 542-1381