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John Tanner Feud?
Posted by newscoma | Posted in A Nation At War, Memphis, Northwest Tennessee, Politics, Washington | Posted on 16-09-2007
8th District Congressman John Tanner is battling it out with fellow democrats according to the Memphis Flyer.
The topic? You guessed it.
Iraq.
Here’s what it says, campers.
The 9th District’s Steve Cohen isn’t the only local member of Congress to be in the middle of a verbal firefight these days. Tennessee’s 8th District congressman John Tanner, who represents part of Memphis and much of northern Shelby County, is feuding with fellow Democrats over a bipartisan measure he’s sponsoring to relax the terms of a congressionally mandated withdrawal from Iraq.
In response to criticism from MoveOn.org and other critics who want more direct and immediate withdrawal measures, Tanner, a leader of the Democrats’ congressional Blue Dog faction, said, “When these soldiers, sailors, and airmen are buried, they’re not buried as Republicans or Democrats. I care a hell of a lot more about them than I do about partisan politics.”
There’s more.
Guess Tanner should have not voted to go to Iraq.