OP ED - Two Mike McIntyres

There seems to be two Representative Mike McIntyres. One is the conservative Blue Dog Democrat Mike that shows up when he needs the support of the people. The other is the liberal Mike that follows the lead of Speaker Nancy Pelosi when casting his votes in Congress.

On two separate occasions Liberal Mike has voted, supposedly, to correct the rising cost of gas. The first time he only addressed a very small part of the problem. He voted with the Liberals to crack down on price gouging and fight against those who attempt to fix the price of oil. Had Conservative Mike been in Washington the day of the vote he would have realized that the increase was due to lost or damaged refineries and the price of crude oil from OPEC among other things.

Liberal Mike voted against allowing floor debate on H.R.5254, the Refinery Permit Process Schedule Act. [Bill HR 5254 resolution H RES 842; Roll Call 2006-228 on June 7, 2006 that would expedite the permit process and allow more oil refineries therefore and lower the cost of fuel.]

The second time Liberal Mike joined, lock step, with Nancy Peloci to try and correct the high cost of gasoline was to attack the big bad oil companies for making too much money and receiving tax payer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief. Now, who would have voted to give these mean nasty oil companies those tax breaks? You guessed it; it was Mike McIntyre. [Energy Policy Act of 2004; Bill HR 4503 to authorize $25.7 billion tax break over a 10-year period. The tax breaks include $11.9 billion to promote oil and gas production; Roll call 2004-241 on June 15, 2004. Also HR.6; Roll call 2003-630 on November 18, 2003.]

Lately, Liberal Mike has voted to end the “Bush Tax Cuts” that Conservative Mike voted to pass. It is seriously troubling that these two people seem to occupy the same body.

Mike’s actions are not conservative. In the 7^th District, it is time to replace “I can’t make up my mind Mike” with Will Breazeale- the real Conservative in NC-7.

George Bell - Brunswick County

Newsletter 3-31-08

Hello from the front lines of politics!

I have big news for the upcoming week! This Thursday, April 3rd at 3:15pm, I am holding a press conference at the Fayetteville Airport to welcome my Iraqi interpreter from Northern Iraq: Bangian Aldosakee, known as “Benny” to those of us in the coalition forces. Benny served as my interpreter in all sort of combat situations for a year while I was advising the Iraqi Army from 2006-2007. He is brave, talented, and loves America. Benny has recently legally immigrated to New York State and is coming to Southeast N.C. to campaign with me as my special guest. Benny will be here April 3^rd thru the 18th and will make many appearances all over our Congressional District. I hope all of you can be at our press conference and welcome celebration for Benny on April 3^rd! If you have an organization that you would like Benny to speak to, please call our scheduler at 910-409-7023. This may be the only chance in your life to meet an Iraqi Citizen visiting in our area with such a great story to tell!

What a great week I have had. I was honored by the presence of Representatives John Linder (R-GA) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) at a house party fundraiser for my campaign last Friday night in Newnan, GA. The fundraiser was attended by pilots, managers and corporate officers of Airtran Airways in financial and moral support of our campaign. Rep. Linder, who also happens to be a fellow FairTax supporter, made a great point to the crowd: Mike McIntyre, our Democrat competition, is a nice guy, but his votes in Congress are NOT in keeping with the conservative values McIntyre claims to represent. Rep. Linder also made a point that if you value me bearing your burdens as a candidate campaigning 80 hours per week in order to represent you in Congress in the way you should be represented, then show you support by "writing a check!" I could not agree more. Today is the last day to give before our quarterly report deadline. Please take your credit card out and donate on our website.

This past week also found me on stage with Sen. Fred Smith and Lee Greenwood in Fayetteville. That followed an event for our campaign at the Fayetteville North Regional Library. Most of my supporters also left after our event to attend the Smith event. A very good evening!

Thursday night I was honored to speak at a fundraiser event for South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham in Spartanburg, SC.

Tuesday night saw me meeting with a group of students at the UNCW campus in Wilmington. What a great bunch of young people, all taking an active interest in politics!

Wednesday started off with a long visit on the Curtis Wright show on The Big Talker FM. Callers had several interesting questions – particularly one about what I would actually do in Washington, was I all talk about what was wrong or would I follow through with positive action. I answered that, as one of 435 members of the House I would promise to take a positive, conservative stand against increased taxes and pork barrel spending. That I would work with other like minded members of Congress and NC state officials to convince a majority to vote with us on the important issues. I am already building those “bridges” now with my contacts during the campaign with people like Representatives Linder and Westmoreland, Senators Elizabeth Dole, Richard Burr and Lindsey Graham, NC Representatives Foxx, Hayes, Myrick, and McHenry, Senator Fred Smith and Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory. By building this network now and by growing it between now and November, when I am sworn in next January as the new Congressman from the 7^th District of North Carolina I will be off and running and ready to make a positive difference.

The District 7 Convention is this coming Saturday, April 5th in Bolivia. I hope to see all of you there as we confidently stride toward winning this race!!!!

Thanks

Will

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Eliminate the IRS - April 15th events in District 7

What

Fair Tax Barnstorm - Will Breazeale for Congress

When

Tue Apr 15

20080415/20080416

Description

Will Breazeale - Candidate for Congress in the 7th District of NC accompanied by his Iraqi interpreter from his last tour in Iraq will fly into all 10 counties in the district to emphasize his support for implementing the FairTax and doing away with the IRS on the most hated tax day of the year. There will be short press / public addresses at each of the stops culminating with an hour long rally against the income tax at the Air Wilmington facility at the Wilmington Airport.

Here is the schedule of stops:
8:00am-Elizabethtown Airport(Bladen County)
9:00am-Fayetteville Airport(Cumberland County)
10:00am-Laurinburg Airport(Scotland County)
11:00am-Lumberton Airport(Robeson County)
12:00noon-Whiteville Airport(Columbus County)
1:00pm-Clinton Airport (Sampson County)
3:00pm-Kenansville Airport(Duplin County)
4:00pm-Wallace Airport(Pender County)
5:00pm-Brunswick County Airport(Brunswick County)
6:00pm-Wilmington Airport (New Hanover County)

We will have a Fair Tax rally in an Aircraft hangar next to Air
Wilmington at 6:00pm. It will last until 7:00pm. Congresswoman Sue
Myrick of Charlotte (Co-Sponsor of the Fairtax Bill in the
House-HR 25) is invited to be the guest speaker at the rally.

Newsletter - 03-24-08

Hello all!

This week will be a key one in our campaign to elect me as your next Congressman. Below are the events I will be attending this week:

Tonight I will be at UNC-Wilmington at 7:00 pm.

• Tuesday morning at 8:00 am I will be appearing on the Curtis Wright show at the Big Talker FM in Wilmington (96.7 and 103.7 FM).


• Also on Tuesday after our event in Fayetteville, I will participate in Lee Greenwood's concert for the Fred Smith for Governor campaign at Methodist University. (For more details see the paragraph below).


• Tuesday evening at 5:30 pm we are holding a fundraiser in Fayetteville with fans of my endorsement of the FairTax.


• Friday we’ll be having a huge event in Newnan, GA, near Atlanta, organized by my fellow pilots at AirTran Airways in which will Congressmen Linder and Westmoreland, both Republicans from Georgia will be speakers.


• Saturday morning I'll be campaigning at the Planter's Day festival in White Oak, NC in Bladen County.


• Then at 4:00 pm. I will be giving a speech at the Politician's Appreciation Day in Elizabethtown.
  

I will be making a special announcement with Fred Smith and Lee Greenwood just before honoring our veterans with Lee's "God Bless the USA." Anyone attending our fundraiser, which begins at 5:30 pm, right before the Lee Greenwood concert are invited to Fred's fundraiser concert where they will have special reserved seating (Fred's campaign is asking for a $25, per person, donation to his campaign). What an exciting night!!!!

We are welcoming George Bell as our County Coordinator of Brunswick County. George currently serves as a Precinct Chairman in Brunswick County for the Republican Party as well. He and his family are dedicated Republicans ready to help us win Brunswick County in Nov 08! His email address is brunswick@breazeale08.com. Contact him if you live in Brunswick County to become part of our organization. Please contact Rob Boyce, my Campaign Manager, if you live in any other county and would like to volunteer! We will have some special perks for our County Coordinators so sign up now!

Mcintyre's flip-flops continue....McIntyre supported the Iraq War resolution to attack Iraq in 2002. Last year, he voted with his leader, Nancy Pelosi, the very liberal Speaker of the House – his first vote in 2007 was to elect her speaker! - to immediately withdraw all troops from Iraq no later than April 2008. Now, McIntyre says the soldiers need to stay until Iraq's government is strong enough to run their own country. The people of District 7 deserve a Congressman who shows leadership, not one who changes his position like a weather vane in a hurricane! On November 4th the voters will show Mike McIntyre that they want this Veteran -- and not a trial lawyer -- representing them in Congress!

Keep the House Party requests coming!!!!

Take care

Will

PS - When Sen. Elizabeth Dole was head of the Red Cross she says she asked people for only three things: their time as volunteers; their money – as donations; and their blood! Well, I am not asking for your blood! but I need your time and your money! Go to aWILLtoWIN.com today to sign up!

Democrats - the Party of Lawyers

Bruce Walker at the American Thinker has this piece:

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers' Party. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are lawyers. Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama are lawyers. John Edwards, the other former Democrat candidate for president, is a lawyer and so is his wife Elizabeth. Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate.) Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Benson, went to law school. Look at the Democrat Party in Congress: the Majority Leader in each house is a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different. President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not lawyers, but businessmen. The leaders of the Republican Revolution were not lawyers. Newt Gingrich was a history professor; Tom Delay was an exterminator; and Dick Armey was an economist. House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer, not a lawyer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.

He goes on to say:

We are citizens of a republic which promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws, we are contorted by judicial decisions, we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives.

Read the rest...

Breazeale Signs No Earmark Pledge

Washington, DC – Declaring his intention when elected to Congress to forego “Earmarking,” - the practice by which members of Congress divert taxpayer funding to special projects outside of the normal competitive and merit-based review process – Congressional Candidate Will Breazeale (R NC-7) has signed the “Earmark Pledge”.

Striking a cord for fiscal responsibility, Breazeale said “If a project in my district needs and deserves Federal funding I will submit that as a bill or as a budget request – which will be held up to the daylight of public debate and a vote by Congress. I will not request or support these earmarks that go outside of the regular legislative process!”

THEREFORE, I, _Will Breazeale__, in my capacity as _Congressman_, do hereby pledge that I will personally support spending reform in Congress by refusing to seek, support, or enact earmarks during the appropriations process for fiscal year 2009.

“I have no doubt that Rep. Mike McIntyre will avoid signing this pledge, since he has repeatedly submitted earmarks of his own” Breazeale continued “and refused to vote against removing even ridiculous earmarks like Rep. Charley Rangel’s $2 million for a public policy center, conference center and library that will bear Rangel’s name. Senate Republicans called it Rangel’s ‘Monument to Me’.” (Roll call 678)

The pledge is the centerpiece of FreedomWorks’ overall campaign to stop out of control federal spending and end the earmarking process. Grassroots activists will be able to download the pledge and monitor progress at the FreedomWorks sponsored site, www.earmarkpledge.com.

Newsletter 3-17-2008

Hello all!

Another long, busy week, I am tired but remain inspired!!! As you saw in our email alert, Friday I appeared on FoxNews. A recording of it can bee seen by viewing the homepage of my website at http://www.awilltowin.com/ or at YouTube.


Be sure to check our calendar of events as we are always booking events near you. We are also receiving calls from many organizations to book me as their speaker. I enjoy campaigning, meeting new people and listening to their opinions. If asked to speak to a group, they don’t get a “canned” stump speech like many politicians give. My remarks always come from my heart, not a paid speechwriter. You can count on an interesting and honest speech with maybe a little humor mixed in as well!
McIntyre has been turning down speaking engagements at a record pace. Whenever it seems our paths are going to cross on the campaign trail, he fails to show up at the event. McIntyre is avoiding me at all costs, which is really bad for you. You the voters should be able to listen to both our views and see the contrast. How can you make an informed choice only hearing one half of the argument? Why is he playing hide and seek with his constituents?
I participated in a national conference call earlier this week concerning the Democrat’s new budget which renders the largest tax increase in history, over $500 Billion Dollars. Do not worry yet, President Bush will come to the rescue with his veto pen, but this situation just shows how important it is for Republicans to take back the House of Representatives. But, staple your wallets shut if the Democrats keep the House and Senate and take over the Office of the President in November 2008.
Thanks to all of you for your encouraging letters and emails. I want to especially thank State Rep. Carolyn Justice of Pender and New Hanover Counties for her support of this campaign. She is wise and energetic and like you, realizes that we need more military experience in Congress to keep us safe.
Saturday I attended a BBQ at State Senate Candidate Bettie Fennell’s home and while there I gained the endorsement of Republican Pender County Commissioner George Brown and Pender School Board member Doris Carlton. What a great bunch of people we have representing us here in the district!
Keep in mind that house parties and coffee receptions DO work and are a great way to get involved! Take care until next week!

Will
PS: We are gearing up for all the spring festivals and are ordering the thousands of palm card handouts we’ll need. Your donation of just $61 will buy 1000 of these great looking cards or even just $30.50 to buy 500. Use this link to go to Slatecard and make that donation right now so we can be ready for the April 9th –13th North Carolina Azalea Festival in Wilmington!

Will Breazeale and Kieran Lalor on Fox News 3-14-08

Watch as Will fires an Iraqi RPG

Sweet Deal for McIntyre and Sugar Producers

By Will Breazeale – Candidate for Congress

Wilmington, NC – Order iced tea in Southeastern North Carolina and the waitress will expect you want it “sweet” – with lots of sugar, that is the way many people take it here. Democrat Congressman Mike McIntyre (NC-7) is a fan of sugar as well, to the tune of some $30,000 just since last April. That is how much “Big Sugar” contributed to his campaign in the past year.

According to the NC Dept. of Agriculture web site, sugar is not an NC grown crop or product. These donors to McIntyre’s campaign are predominately from Florida. What is the connection? Why does “Big Sugar” care if McIntyre has enough money to run for re-election?

McIntyre sits on the Agriculture Committee – where the price guarantees for sugar producers originate. H.R 2419 is the reauthorization bill that includes the “sweet deal” for Big Sugar. A very sweet deal! Under this ongoing deal – which H.R.2419 would extend until at least 2012 – the sugar producers get a guarantee from Uncle Sam that if they cannot sell their sugar on the free market for the guaranteed price, Uncle will buy it from them at that price. Besides that, Uncle Sam slaps a tariff on imported sugar to further support the price.

The bill also provides for Uncle Sam to buy sugar at the artificially inflated prices from the producers and then sell it at deep discount to the companies that produce ethanol! What a great idea from McIntyre’s Democrat controlled Congress. Funnel taxpayer’s cash to sugar producers and then sell the sugar at a loss! No wonder this country is Trillions of dollars in debt and the dollar is dropping in value!

By contributing to McIntyre’s campaign “Big Sugar” expected his favorable vote on the bill. They got it.

What did “Big Sugar” get for their money? Not only did McIntyre vote for the whole bill containing the extension and revamping of the sugar program – which he could claim was a vote for other “important” sections of the bill - he voted against an amendment that would have stripped just the sugar program from the bill. (Roll call 751)

Why do you care? Well, the price of Sweet Tea and all other products using sugar are higher because the price of sugar is artificially high. Other products manufacturers move out of the USA so they can buy sugar cheaper.

Sugar is so inexpensive in other countries – like Brazil – that they use it, rather than corn, to make ethanol for fuel. The Government Accountability Office estimates that the sugar program costs US consumers as much as $2 billion a year in higher food prices. Add to that the jobs lost, the taxpayer’s costs and the $30,000 to McIntyre is a drop in the bucket!

Breazeale Applauds GOP Senators for Illegal Immigration Bills

White Lake, NC – Congressional candidate Will Breazeale (NC-7) today thanked a group of US Senators, including Sen. Elizabeth Dole (NC-R), for bringing forward a set of bills that would address many of the issues of illegal immigration. “We have to deal with this problem in a straight forward manner. These bills are not the amnesty proposals put forward by Pelosi and Reid, said Breazeale. “If these bills can be passed – either now or after we Republicans take back Congress next November – we will see a marked reduction in the number of illegal aliens and in the damage they do to our economy.”
Several of the bills would: • Block federal funding from cities that bar their police from asking about immigration status.• Give the Department of Homeland Security the authority to use information from the Social Security Administration to locate illegal aliens.• Require construction of 700 miles of fencing along the Southern border.• Impose sanctions on countries that refuse to repatriate their citizens.• Deport any illegal alien just for one drunken-driving conviction.• Enable local and state police to enforce federal immigration laws
“Of particular importance is the deportation of illegal aliens convicted of crimes, particularly DUI”, remarked Breazeale. “We have really started to reduce the DUI deaths in this country and too many now are from illegal aliens with serial DUI records.”

Newsletter 3-10-08

Hello again!

This has been a pivotal week in the campaign. Fox News in New York interviewed me last week for a story to air during the Brit Hume report as early as Tuesday. I will send you an email alert when we find out the exact time. This national exposure is wonderful, increasing the Campaign’s visibility and can bring in support and donations from all across the country!

This national exposure will also mean other opportunities for high profile interviews partly because of my Iraq War Veteran status. People do trust veterans, not just for what we have already done, but for what we say and we will do. They trust veterans to get things DONE! With the current Congress’ approval rating (22%), the people are demanding Representatives who will say what they mean and do what they say! I promise you that this Veteran will fill that bill!

I had a wonderful time speaking to the Pender County GOP Salute to Veterans as their keynote speaker. State Representative Carolyn Justice and County Chair Bob Muller were excellent hosts. Both told me with complete confidence that based on my qualifications to be our next Congressman and their efforts I will win Pender County. The members of the Pender County GOP are ready for a change and are ready to work with us for that change. State Rep. Carolyn Justice presented me with a NC Flag she had flown over the State House in Raleigh to honor my military service. This is one of the most meaningful gifts I have ever received and I look forward to hanging it behind my desk in Washington this January!

I look forward to walking thru Pender County with Caroline and their Republican Sheriff (one of only two in the whole district) meeting the voters and listening to their ideas on how to improve things in the County.

Newsflash: The Democratic Congress is at it again. In a display of their total lack of understanding about what it takes to serve in the military, the Democrat controlled Congress formed a Guard and Reserve study group. The group not only did not recommend improving the retirement system for the reserves but instead recommended to impose that same retirement scheme on the active military. Currently the members of the active force who retire after their 20 years can start to collect their well-earned retirement immediately while reservists must wait until age 60 to start receiving their money, even if they retire years earlier. This will devastate our active forces and cause difficulties for the Reserve forces trying to fill the void. There will be even less incentive for active members to stay in until retirement. This wrong-headed idea is similar to what happened when the Democrats controlled Congress in the early 1990s. They reduced base pay retirement to 40% from 50% also to "save money." The Army is still recovering from the loss of those valuable, trained and experienced Soldiers. The ignorance of the current Congress concerning military operations and personnel is surprising and dangerous. There is a serious disconnect between the Democratic Party and the military that worries me. Time and time again the Democratic Party has shown it will NOT take care of our military when needed.
This is exactly why I am running. There are too many lawyers and not enough of a cross section of regular people in Congress. There are too many self serving people in Congress and not enough public servants.

This Thursday I am attending an Iraq War Veterans for Congress event in Las Vegas, on Friday the Bladen County GOP Convention, and on Saturday the New Hanover GOP Convention. I am also excited about upcoming major fundraisers we are having in Fayetteville and Newnan, GA! Hope to see you at one of these events!

Take care

Will

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Newsletter 3-3-08

Hello all,

This week has been a busy one! We held a training session this past Saturday for our newly hired fundraisers. If you missed the training...do not despair! Give Nicole Siemer, our events manager, a call at 910-423-6362 and she will set you up for the next training session. Then you can be a valuable part of our professional fundraising team. You can also email Nicole at events@breazeale08.com.

This Friday the Pender County GOP is holding a dinner to honor all veterans. As a co-keynote speaker I will present a slide show and speech on my experiences living with and training the Iraqi Army during my deployment last year. Call Bob Muller, the Pender County GOP Chair at
910-297-2866 to reserve your ticket for this event, 7 March at 7pm in Hampstead.

McIntyre has started spending money against us doing push polling, telephoning voters and asking questions on our issues in a skewed manner. McIntyre is concerned, rightfully so, about this election. He is part of a Congress with terrible approval rating and he realizes that our top 3 issues: the Iraq War, Illegal Immigration and the Fairtax are winning issues and clear differences between us.

It IS official....no one else filed to run as a Republican for Congress in this district. That means that I am the Republican nominee! Rumors about another Democrat running against McIntyre turned out to be just
that, rumors. I am challenging McIntyre to debate. You can help by putting pressure on McIntyre for a spirited and meaningful debate on the issues with letters to the editor of your local newspaper, calling in to a radio talk show, or letting McIntyre's office know your desire. The differences between McIntyre and myself on the issues need to be put to the test in a debate.

Thanks for the continued financial donations to our campaign. We ARE putting your donations to good use and we WILL be aggressive with our goal of winning this district!

Take care

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Will Breazeale (R-N.C.) signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Will Breazeale, a Republican running for North Carolina’s 7th Congressional District seat, recently signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform (ATR). The Pledge to the taxpayers of the district and to the American people commits signers to “oppose any and all efforts to increase the marginal income tax rates for individuals and/or businesses … and oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates."

ATR has offered the Pledge to all candidates for federal office since 1987. To date, President George W. Bush, 41 U.S. Senators, and 194 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed the Pledge. Additionally, seven Governors and over 1,200 state legislators have signed the Pledge.

Breazeale's pledge was witnessed by fellow Pledge signers Sen. Elizabeth Dole(R-N.C.) and Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.).

“Americans are looking for candidates committed to fiscal responsibility and pro-growth economic policies,” said Grover Norquist, president of ATR.

“By signing the Pledge, Mr. Breazeale demonstrates that he possesses the qualities hard-working taxpayers nationwide are so desperate to find in their candidates. I applaud him for his leadership and dedication to the ideals of limited government.”

“I strongly encourage every candidate for federal and state elective office to sign the Pledge,” Norquist continued.

Copies of the Pledge are available at www.atr.org or by calling (202) 785-0266.

More from Breazeale on winning in Iraq

A recent report in the Washington Post contains some insight into the efforts to bring about a victory in Iraq - for both the US and the Iraqis.

Since his return from Northern Iraq, Army Reserve Major and Congressional Candidate Will Breazeale has been saying "We need to let the Iraqi Army and police that we have trained take the lead in their own country, give them the the opportunity to lead themselves to Victory".

Breazeale, as a training officer living and working with the Iraqis, saw first hand how, like a kid on his first bicycle, the first solo ride may be wobbly and there may be some tumbles along the way, when urged or even forced to do so find that they really have all it takes to do the job.

Washington Post reporter Joshua Partlow wrote:

With just 2,000 American soldiers to patrol a city of 1.8 million people -- the Iraqi Sunni insurgency's most formidable urban stronghold -- the U.S. military strategy in Mosul relies to an unprecedented degree on the Iraqi security forces. U.S. military officials here say there will be nothing like the "surge" of thousands of American troops that helped ease the fighting in Baghdad and no major effort to search for insurgents block by block.
Instead, they are betting that 18,200 Iraqi soldiers and police can shoulder the load against the kaleidoscope of insurgent groups fighting in the city.
"We see the Iraqi security forces, more and more, take the lead and take the fight to the enemy," said Maj. Adam Boyd, the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's intelligence officer.
"You do see a capability that we have not seen before."
In recent months, three Iraqi army battalions have returned to Mosul from deployments in Baghdad. The Interior Ministry has approved 2,000 additional police recruits for the city, and a new Iraqi operations command is coordinating the efforts of the Iraqi security forces.

Breazeale responds "This is exactly what I expect to happen as Iraqi troops and police are placed in the lead positions, allowed to do the jobs we have been training them for. We can take the training wheels off, send them on their way. The new bike might get mangled but the rider will get better."

"The odd numbered Iraqi Army Divisions (1st, 3rd, 5th etc.) are especially key to the country's success because these Divisions are comprised of a mixture of Sunnis, Shias and Kurds from all over the country. If these key divisions can succeed without our help, the country will succeed," continued Breazeale. "This HAS to be tested now like the successful test the British did in the Southern Iraqi town of Basra, before any mass redeployment is considered"

The American commanders in Mosul said their approach takes into account the lessons of previous U.S. offensives, in which soldiers flooded a violent area only to find that their targets had fled or were indistinguishable from other civilians. The Americans are relying on the Iraqi army to develop intelligence that will lead to specific raids to capture individual insurgents.
"You can't just bring in the whole United States Army and go room to room of the entire city and then leave," said Maj. Thomas Feltey, the executive officer of a U.S. squadron in Mosul. "The bad guys will wait. We don't know who they are."

"We could go into a room full of people suspected of being insurgents and we had no way to tell who was and who wasn't, but the Iraqi's could look them over and pick out the bad apples," said Breazeale. "They know their own people much better than we ever can."

According to Breazeale, the way to win in Iraq and allow the bulk of our forces to return home is to train the Iraqis, assist them while they train and then send them out to defend and protect their own country.

HT - Michael Yon

Breazeale to address students at Terry Sanford HS

Fayetteville - Will Breazeale, a Major in the Army Reserve and Congressional candidate will be addressing assemblies of students at the Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville on Friday February 29th. He will be talking about his military service, the government and politics. As a three tour veteran of the Iraq Wars and candidate for Congress Breazeale has a unique perspective on public service.

The invitation to speak was initiated by student Tyrell Farris after meeting and speaking with Breazeale at a campaign event.

Breazeale to attend Robeson GOP Convention

Lumberton – Congressional Candidate Will Breazeale is to attend the Robeson County Republican Convention on March 6th at the Robeson County Courthouse from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

The convention will be selecting delegates to represent the county at the District 7 convention to be held April 5th at the Brunswick County GOP HQ in Bolivia, NC. These conventions select the delegates to the State Convention which will in turn select the delegates and alternates to attend the Republican National convention, where the presidential and vice presidential candidates will be selected.

Three tour Iraq Vet to address Salute to Veterans Dinner

Hampstead – The Pender County NC Republicans are holding a Salute to Veterans Dinner March 7th at the Kings Table restaurant in Hampstead ( off Rt 17 at Hoover Rd. in the Castle Bay development). Congressional candidate, major in the Army Reserves and three tour Iraq War veteran Will Breazeale is a keynote speaker.

Breazeale, having completed his third tour last June, is seeking the NC District 7 Congressional seat. The district extends from Pender County – at the edge of the Marine Corps’ Camp LeJeune - to Cumberland County – bordering the Army’s Ft. Bragg. Veteran’s issues are especially important in this district as a large number of military retirees call the district home.