Lisa Murkowski votes yes to more war in Iraq

By Dennis Zaki , Alaska Report

September 27, 2007

Alaska Republican senator Lisa Murkowski last week voted against a bill that would have ordered most U.S. troops home from Iraq in nine months, after publicly stating she would do just the opposite.

"I'm very concerned that, in an effort to send a very clear message to the administration, that we must ensure that the families' needs are met, that we would see some very unintended consequences," Murkowski said after the vote.

Murkowski claims she remains committed to making sure U.S. troops have enough time at home to recover from their time in Iraq and Afghanistan before being redeployed. Yet she still voted against the bill.

So what is it Lisa? Yes or no?

Lisa Murkowski last week also made the list of most corrupt members of Congress by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington for a Kenai land scam in which she received an incredible deal on prime property on the banks of the Alaska's Kenai River, a purchase she illegally failed to report on her annual financial disclosures filed in May..

The third annual list, released Tuesday by CREW, documents the most "egregious, unethical and possibly illegal activities of the most tainted members of Congress."