Ted Re..that as a senator acting in her official capacity, she should be required to state her employers position correctly.
Excuse me.......but who do you think is her employer?
She is a representative of the people for the gov, and when speaking to people in her position as a senator, she represents the gov. She is a liasion between the two. As a representative, when she represents the gov., she should reflect the policies that she, and her fellow representatives voted for. The senate voted for GW's Iraq resolution, the senate voted for the war against Afghanistan etc. and when representing the gov. she should reflect what the gov. stands for; not necessarily what she personally stands for.
Senator Murray represents the state of WA in Congress. People of the State of WA are her employer. The latest polls show a majority of the people in the state of WA are against going to war with Iraq. They believe it is more fruitful to put US resources into hunting down al Qaeda operatives than removing Saddam from office and embarking on the questionable task of additional nation building.
Or at the least, she should say that those are her personal views, not the views of the senate, or the president.
I think you are out of line telling me how the Senator of WA should speak. Once again, one of the founding principles of this country is the freedom of speech. Sen. Murray has every right to voice her, or the state's opinion in Congress, in schools, in Hell!
Frankly, since she made those remarks, I have not heard one other person defend those remarks, other than you; no other senators, representatives or even half crazed liberals have defended those remarks. Why are you?
Because she is my representative and not yours. I take strong objection at your attempts at censor and at trying to dictate the behavior of a WA state representative. I suggest you concern yourself only with rep. of the state of WI.
TIA.
She is flat out wrong. The US is the biggest giver of aid to Afghanistan,
She wasn't talking about Afghanistan but rather other Muslim countries......on such a small point, you've misinterpreted what she said.
And neither was I. Here is that part of my post you are responding to,.
That is the part of her statement I objected to. The US government is the largest giver of aid to the world monetarily wise; as the US gives approx. $10 billion yearly. In addition she overlooks all of the private aid donations of approximately $34 bil. Which means both the US gov. and the people, private and corp. give $43 bil. world wide each yr. Of the US gov. share, 2/3 goes to the middle east, with Egypt and Israel getting the lions share, but the rest of the gov. also get aid. The US gov. alone is contributing app. 200 mil to Afghanistan, the most of any country in the world.
You have isolated one part of one sentence of a paragraph, and claimed that I wasn't talking about donation to all poor countries. LIAR
I am very literal..........I took your statement as you wrote it. In the future, make sure you write what you mean.
Good point.......if that's the reason our good will is so low in the Middle East, then we need to change how we give out aid. That's what Ms. Murray was suggesting.
If Mz Murray was really suggesting that the US should stop supporting international relief agencies such as the Red Cross and UNICEFF; and start building schools for the clerics to preach hatred of the US; then you have a bigger problem that you think. Here is what a person of the International Red Cross thinks of her statements.
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Did you catch the remarks that Senator Patty Murray made to a group of high school students in Vancouver, Washington? Here's an excerpt from the Associated Press's report:
"Sen. Patty Murray intended to be provocative when she told a group of high school students terrorist leader Osama bin Laden is popular in poor countries because he helped pay for schools, roads and even day care centers.
'We haven't done that,' Murray said. 'How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?'"
In fairness to Senator Murray she did say that Osama Bin Laden was an evil man who had killed thousands of people, but the fact of the matter is that Senator Murray was attempting to portray the US in the most negative light by saying that even Osama Bin Laden, the murderer that he is, is admired around the world because he gives money to the poor while the US does not.
That seemed to be her message. Rightly or wrongly, that is how it came across. Well, of course Ms. Murray got a letter (I love to write letters). Here it is:
I glad you wrote her your opinion. Its good for her to know how others in the country feel about the war and about OBL. That does not change the fact that I believe you are reading into her comments what you wish and criticizing her unjustly.
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