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Title: Iraq vets to challenge Democrats in November
Post by: Desertdog on August 04, 2008, 05:08:15 PM

This is what we need.  Get real people in office, not career politicians. 

Iraq vets to challenge Democrats in November
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=201268


A group of Iraq war veterans from across the U.S. have formed a coalition to help each other run for Congress this fall.



All of the veterans support the war effort and have stated they wish to relieve the Democrats from their control of Congress. The coalition, called Iraq Veterans for Congress, was founded by Marine Corps veteran Kieran Michael Lalor, who is running for New York's 19th Congressional District seat located north of New York City.

 

Lalor says there is strength in numbers. "When I heard there were other Iraq vets who were Republicans who believed in the mission in Iraq who were running for the House, I wanted to compare notes with them, to see what was working in their campaign, what wasn't working," he explains. "And also I knew [with] individual congressional campaigns it's hard to get national attention."

 

And Lalor says members of Iraq Veterans For Congress are tired of seeing veterans mistreated and their mission slandered. "I feel like the media and Democrat Party [sic] go out of their way to find the exception to the rule," says a frustrated Lalor. "They go out of their way to find the anti-Iraq war veteran. And the great majority of us support the mission there, and I thought who better to broadcast our support for the mission than guys who are going to Congress," he adds.
 
Lalor expects 15 Iraq war veterans from the coalition to square off against Democrats this fall.

Title: Re: Iraq vets to challenge Democrats in November
Post by: longeyes on August 04, 2008, 07:32:27 PM

I have expected this and have noted it in these pages.  Vets will become a powerful political bloc--that's my belief.  Whether it's too late to save us I don't know, but this is a promising development.

Title: Re: Iraq vets to challenge Democrats in November
Post by: anygunanywhere on August 05, 2008, 03:43:31 AM

If I must place my future, my life, in the hands of an individual and must decide who that individual must be, and the decision is between a brother/sister veteran and someone who has not served, then the decision is easy.

Anygunanywhere
U.S. Navy 1972-1978

Title: Re: Iraq vets to challenge Democrats in November
Post by: Scout26 on August 05, 2008, 06:55:54 AM

I'm tired of the local dems touting this Votevets shill group.  Not one candidate they support is an (R).  Shocking I know....

Title: Re: Iraq vets to challenge Democrats in November
Post by: ilbob on August 05, 2008, 12:10:45 PM

Quote from: anygunanywhere on August 05, 2008, 02:43:31 AM

If I must place my future, my life, in the hands of an individual and must decide who that individual must be, and the decision is between a brother/sister veteran and someone who has not served, then the decision is easy.

Anygunanywhere
U.S. Navy 1972-1978

there are plenty of vets who are wildly socialist in world view, and a fair number are pretty authoritarian.

Title: Re: Iraq vets to challenge Democrats in November
Post by: anygunanywhere on August 07, 2008, 09:16:44 AM

Quote from: ilbob on August 05, 2008, 11:10:45 AM

Quote from: anygunanywhere on August 05, 2008, 02:43:31 AM

If I must place my future, my life, in the hands of an individual and must decide who that individual must be, and the decision is between a brother/sister veteran and someone who has not served, then the decision is easy.

Anygunanywhere
U.S. Navy 1972-1978

there are plenty of vets who are wildly socialist in world view, and a fair number are pretty authoritarian.

Possibly my post was too general.

You are correct in your statement. I would not vote for a veteran that ran or acted in a wildly socialist or authoritarian manner.

There are, or at least have been, conservative democrats who I would have voted for if they were on the ballot in front of me.

Anygunanywhere