Iraq

Senator Barak Obama has demonstrated that he is ill prepared to be President by agreeing with Nouri al-Maliki and undermining the Administration and this country.

So much for our promise to liberate Iraq, not to occupy it, and not to cart off its riches.

CONNERS TO ATTEND DEPLOYMENT CEREMONY
FOR 3,000 NEW JERSEY NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS

Assemblyman to Salute New Jersey Troops Headed Overseas

(TRENTON) - Assemblyman Jack Conners, chairman of the Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee, will attend the deployment of New Jersey National Guard members of the 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team tomorrow at Fort Dix.  Over 3,000 New Jersey soldiers will be deployed for "Operation Iraqi Freedom" during the next eight days. 

ROB ANDREWS' ENERGY POLICY: INVADE IRAQ

Frank Lautenberg’s campaign continues to assail primary challenger Rob Andrews on the Iraq War, claiming that the Democratic Congressman had more of a hand in the initial stages of the war than he’s let on. 

Lautenberg issued a press today saying that Andrews had participated in “closed meetings and telephone calls” with Bush Administration officials between the lead up to the war and 2006, and demanding that Andrews disclose the “times, place and subjects” of those meetings.

Andrews responded that he attended two Bush administration meetings with about 20 other Congressmen, both of which were  covered by the Washington press corps. 

Facing a steady stream of attacks for his original stance on the Iraq war, Rep. Rob Andrews sought to get out in front of the issue today, challenging incumbent Sen. Frank Lautenberg to stop dwelling on past positions and lay his own ideas out for the future of American involvement in Iraq.

“The U.S. Senate campaign should be a test of ideas about what to do next,” said Andrews.  “And it’s a choice between the tired, stale, old status quo politics that just complains, just hurls attacks, and a choice as to what to do next.”

Another Day, Another Lie From Rob Andrews on Iraq

WASHINGTON – Today, President Bush made two announcements regarding the War in Iraq – that he is maintaining the number of troops in Iraq and that he is reducing tours in Iraq to 12 months, though he continues to do nothing to guarantee troops adequate time back home between tours.

As expected, the Iraq war has emerged as a sticky issue in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary.

Incumbent Frank Lautenberg’s campaign today issued a press release citing a Philadelphia Inquirer story that ran today, saying that challenger Rep. Rob Andrews, an early Democratic supporter of the war, misrepresented exactly when he turned into an opponent of the effort.