The Email I sent to Senator Lugar
Thanks for Supporting us Senator Lugar.
Yes that is what I am sure the terrorists that seek our distruction as well as the “Peace at any Price” democrats in congress and the media are saying to you today. “Thanks for Supporting us Senator Lugar”.
This along with your cock-eyed views on immigration are the reasons I will not be voting for you in your next run for the senate and will work feverishly in opposition to you ever being elected again.
The following from NRO The Corner today says it well:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2Q1YTg3OGIwNjkwNGZkMDM0ZjNiZDdjOTMzOTYyNjE=
Lugar [Rich Lowry]I like him. He’s a serious, sober guy. But I don’t see how his strategic goals set out in his speech yesterday—keeping Iraq from being a safe haven from terrorists; keeping the sectarian strife in Iraq from destabilizing the region; checking Iranian ambitions in the region; and protecting U.S. credibility—would be furthered by his vague proposal for a strategic re-deployment. In fact, his re-deployment would almost certainly harm us in all those areas. What he is basically saying is that the war is lost, and all the rest of it—a diplomatic offensive, forging progress on the Arab-Israeli conflict, etc.—is window-dressing. A big reason he says we can’t win is “the timetable imposed by our own domestic political process.” Lugar is of course part of the “domestic political process,” and he will now do more than his fair share to impose that timetable.A couple of political observations: 1) John Warner is probably kicking himself because he wanted to be the first Republican senate luminary to break with Bush; 2) Lugar will be deified by the media and liberal pundit class in coming days; 3) The Democrats will rush to embrace Lugar. Don’t be surprised if there isn’t a Lugar-Biden resolution sometime soon; 4) Many Republicans will be awfully tempted to go Lugar’s way, because it offers a third way between the surge and withdrawal that promises—most importantly for them—a way to try to dodge voter anger over the war; 5) The forces within the Bush administration that want to begin to scale-back our commitment will get a boost. In sum, Lugar’s speech is substantively lacking, but could well mark a significant political moment.06/26 05:01 PMhttp://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTBhYWZhODU3MjEyZjcxMzljNDI2OGQ5MDk0NWMxYTQ=
Lugar (more) [Michael Ledeen]I’m glad Rich likes Lugar, because there aren’t many who do, and it’s true he’s pleasant enough. Indeed, he’s a foreign service officer masquerading as a political leader. I have watched him for about thirty years, and I cannot recall a moment of courage, not one time when he set himself against the conventional wisdom, nor challenged a policy before the winds had shifted against it. He was chairman of Foreign Relations for several years. What did he accomplish? Nothing. He behaved in total synch with Biden, which says it all. He had hearing on Iran, and only invited witnesses approved by Powell and Rice and their people, never a clear dissenting voice.It was predictable for him to join the calls for retreat, as he had already been a leading soprano in the appeasement choir. It wouldn’t surprise me if Biden asked him to do it, in order to show that the establishment Pubs have abandoned the war (surprise!) I wonder what ever happened to the Hoosiers. They fired Bobby Knight and reelect Lugar by huge margins.06/26 05:24 PM
Enjoy the embrace from the media and your democrat appeasers. Conservative Hoosiers no longer have a conservative voice in the U.S. Senate and I look forward to the day
that you and Evan Bayh no longer represent us.
Keith D. Milby
UPDATE: A Response from Senator Lugar