But He’s a Moderate
If you define 1/3 of the population as being the median voter.
Dan Seals Blasts Mark Kirk For Continued Support Of War in Iraq
DEERFIELD, IL—Dan Seals, Democratic candidate in the 10th Congressional District of Illinois, criticized Congressman Mark Kirk today for continuing to support President Bush’s failed policy in Iraq. Monday night, Kirk voted against a spending measure that would increase funding to operations in Afghanistan, while prohibiting those funds from being spent in Iraq. The House approved the measure by a vote of 206 to 201.
Not only did Kirk vote to deny additional funding to our troops in Afghanistan, but his vote also signaled that he wants even more money for the war in Iraq
“Once again, Mark Kirk is putting partisan politics before principle by continuing to stand with the Bush administration in support of an open-ended engagement in Iraq,” Seals said. “Kirk’s vote is yet another sign that he is more interested in siding with the national Republican Party and the Bush Administration than he is in representing residents of the 10th District who are done with this war.”
“Unlike our current representative, I support a timetable for withdrawal and believe we need to begin bringing our troops home. The 10th district deserves more than empty rhetoric on the war, they deserve a representative with the strength to change the course in Iraq.”
December 29th, 2007 at
So what does Seals think we’re doing right in Afganistan that deserves funding, and wrong in Iraq, that warrents defunding?
It seems to me, that we’re going to need to study very hard how Petraus’s strategy in Iraq, and ultimately join with the Pak Army to apply it to Waziristan. When the tribes there turn to us as the Sunni’s did in Iraq, it seems to me that will be the ultimate victory. Or at least the start of the end towards victory.