Shays says support of war has not waned

[Barrett808]

Shays says support of war has not waned
By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - A Republican lawmaker fighting for re-election said Sunday he has not turned against President Bush's Iraq policy but called for a withdrawal timetable to light a fire under the Iraqi government.

Rep. Christopher Shays (news, bio, voting record), a Connecticut Republican who is challenged by an anti-war Democrat, said his support of the war has not waned. Nor, he said, was his suggestion for a pullout timeline prompted by the primary defeat of another war supporter in his state, Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman. Lieberman is now running for re-election as an independent.

"I don't know where Iraq takes me in terms of an election because I support the war in Iraq," Shays told CNN's "Late Edition." "I haven't changed my position one bit. I just want to light a fire under this (Iraqi) government."

While Shays separated his Iraq position from the upcoming elections, the Democratic senatorial campaign chairman, Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record) of New York, used the Iraq issue to go on the attack.

"We have seen a lot of strength from this administration, but not too much in terms of smarts," he said on "Fox News Sunday." "And with Democrats, they'll get strength and smarts."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060903/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq

[Botany]

1. Somebody got a call

"I don't know where Iraq takes me in terms of an election because I support the war in Iraq,"

Stick w/ the war ..... Mr. Shays

[InkAddict]

3. I wasn't aware that Iraqiis were

his constituants that could elect him, or cast a ballot on his behalf, for anything - When will he get the message that this idiocy is a set up that the PNAC will eventually use to bite him in the butt when he doesn't make the income cut, when his eyes are the wrong shade, or when his allegience to (fillintheblank) is important to him than they are?

I know it's trite, but "One just cannot tell an a**hole they're an a**hole."

[Rose Siding]

2. "Yes. No. Yes. No. Ye....Slap me! I'm outa' control."

He'll say ANYTHING to get elected.

[rodeodance]

4. hey, that was a good smackdown of the WH from Schumer!

"We have seen a lot of strength from this administration, but not too much in terms of smarts," he said on "Fox News Sunday." "And with Democrats, they'll get strength and smarts."

[MADem]

5. The conscientious objector is gonna tell us how we need to hold the line

Give me a fucking break. While his peers were dying in Vietnam, he pulled a CO out of his ass, and was Peace Corps-ing it in dangerous FIJI.

Yet the guy wants glory days, because he's been to Iraq 14 times. Interrupting the routine of assorted installations and FOBs, forcing the PAOs/PIOs to follow his ass around so he can act like Joe Soldier (assuaging his guilt for skipping Nam, perhaps?), and he can't see a failed policy in that many trips?

What's with the parsing? Ken Mehlman threaten to snap the purse shut on his greedy campaign paws?

[NOLADEM]

6. How could he be a Repube without...

being a war dodging, chickenhawk asshole.

Anyone in Congress voting for this disaster should have to do a tour. Simple as that. I think we would be out of there QUICKLY.

Ah, a boy can dream, can't he?

And don't rag on Shays...Fiji before the advent of sunscreen for such a white bread piece of shit must have been tough...plus there are minorities EVERYWHERE over there. ;-)

[leesa]

7. Stupid statement by Schumer. Since when is invading defenseless,

non-aggressing countries and blowing up their populace "strength"? It is the height of cowardice.

[w4rma]

8. How are the polls looking for the unnamed "anti-war Democrat" opposing him

in the upcoming election? The AP didn't even mention the Dem's name and they definitely didn't even bother to quote the anonymous "anti-war" Dem.