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Yet again, Mayor Lou Barletta is trying to pretend that he has a position on a major issue, when in fact, it would appear to almost anyone of at least average intelligence that he does not. This time the issue is the War in Iraq. Barletta, questioned about his position on the war, offered up some vague, meaningless statements that contradicted earlier statements that he made. In other words, more of the same from Lou Barletta.

In a Scranton Times article, it becomes clear that Barletta is unwilling to say anything meaningful about his position on the Iraq War. As explained in the article…

“Lou Barletta, Mr. Kanjorski’s Republican challenger in the upcoming election, won’t say now whether he would have voted for the war, even though he supported authorization of the war when he ran against Mr. Kanjorski in 2002. He wants the troops home as swiftly as possible, but favors letting military commanders decide when.

He won’t fault Mr. Kanjorski for voting for the war, although he once implied Mr. Kanjorski’s vote was politically motivated.”

The article goes on to highlight Mayor Barletta’s confusing, contradictory statements on the Iraq War, saying…

“Mr. Barletta declined to characterize the war as a mistake. In at least two interviews this year, he declined to say whether he would have voted for it.

“It would be speculating,” he said. “It might not have been they were justified to go to war in Iraq with what we know now. … Hindsight is 20-20. I’m sure many of the congressmen who voted for it regret their decision. I can’t fault him (Mr. Kanjorski), because they were acting on the information they were given.”

He notes now that he didn’t have the information Mr. Kanjorski had in deciding on what to do about Iraq, but during the 2002 campaign, he unequivocally backed the war.

“I fully support the actions called for in the joint resolution,” he said, according to an Oct. 4, 2002, campaign news release.

The mayor said the shifts in his position show he’s willing to change his mind when new information comes along.”

So Barletta is now bragging about his willingness to shift his position on important issues when “new information” comes along. Clearly, by “new information” he is referring to political opinion polls. Barletta has a history of flip-flopping on major issues in an attempt to get on the more popular side of an issue. Just look at his “position” on privatizing Social Security. He was, the last time he ran for Congress in 2002, in strong support of privatizing Social Security. Now he is saying he is adamantly opposed to it.

I find it highly insulting that Mayor Lou Barletta, who is attempting to get himself elected to the United States Congress, is unwilling to take a stand on an issue as important as the War in Iraq. Mr. Barletta wants to be elected to a position of political leadership, but he is refusing to act like a political leader. If Barletta doesn’t have the courage to even voice his opinion on the Iraq War, what can we expect from him if he actually were to get elected to the Congress? It would be a crap-shoot, at best.

Lou Barletta is political scum. He has a long and well documented track record of telling bold-faced lies. He has waffled on several major political issues facing this nation. And now he is REFUSING to take a position on the War in Iraq, a conflict that has already claimed over three thousand US lives. A vote for Lou Barletta is November is a vote for cowardice, shame, and disgrace. Mayor Barletta does not deserve to be elected to the United States Congress.

-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com

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