Peter Homitz – 3/11/07

This page was last updated on March 11, 2007.

Blame Democrats for Iraq war; Peter Homitz; Beaver County Times; March 11, 2007.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“In his Tuesday letter (‘Reasons for impeachment’), James Nagy wrote ‘the House needs to wash its hands of the matter by drawing up articles of impeachment’ and ‘needs to lead by example.’

“Do Nagy and all the other impeachment advocates not know that it is the current group of Democrats in office - Clinton, Kerry, Kennedy, Reid, et-al - who put our troops in Iraq.”

[RWC] Far be it from me to defend Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), but he actually voted against the Iraq War Resolution (House Joint Resolution 114). Mr. Homitz never lets facts get in the way of a rant.

“President Bush recommended the war, but Congress overwhelmingly legalized it, made it happen. That is their example.”

[RWC] To Mr. Homitz, 69% in the House and 77% in the Senate is “overwhelming.”

“‘An equally valid and perhaps even superior way’ to stop the war, then, would be to impeach Congress itself. They could then wash their hands of the matter they caused and could bathe in ignominy again.

“It is the Nagys of America and the media who undermine our ability to prevail in Iraq. We are at war - an overly Democratically-started war.”

[RWC] If you’ve read Mr. Homitz’s letters, you know facts and logic aren’t his strong suit.

It’s wrong to assert the Iraq war is “an overly Democratically-started war.” 39% of House Democrats and 58% of Senate Democrats voted for the Iraq War Resolution.

Has it occurred to folks like Mr. Homitz neither Democrats nor Republicans are “to blame?” Why are so many of us willing to blame America first instead of looking at our enemies?