Posted on 05/10/2007 10:06:36 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
THE US House of Representatives today voted to fund the Iraq war in instalments of just a few months, defying President George W. Bush's vow to veto a Bill he branded "haphazard" and "piecemeal".
The move, approved by 221 votes to 205, would release $US43 billion ($52bn) in emergency war funding but force Mr Bush to show progress in Iraq in July, before politicians vote on freeing up a second $US53bn chunk of funds.
"This legislation ends the blank cheque for the President's war without end,'' Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi said moments before the vote, the latest round of a bitter and escalating constitutional feud for control of the war.
Mr Bush had earlier fought back hard against Democrats, amid signs of softening Republican support for his strategy to surge nearly 30,000 more troops into violence-torn Iraq.
"I'll veto the Bill if it is this haphazard, piecemeal funding, and I made that clear,'' Mr Bush said after meeting officials at the Defence Department.
Mr Bush used his veto power for only the second time last week to strike down a Bill tying war funding to a timetable to begin withdrawing the 146,000 troops from October from a war which has killed 3379 of their comrades.
Chances of another veto seemed slim, however, as it was unclear whether a similar Bill would pass the Senate, and composite legislation must be agreed by both chambers before it is sent to the President.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Isn't that called 'treason'???
Polling shows the Dems favorable numbers overall are plummeting compared to when they came into power and I suspect this has a lot to do with it.
I’m looking forward to ‘08.
Stephen, civics 101, the bill hasn’t passed yet; and it likely won’t. It will be vetoed. More rats dropped from last to this cart-wheel. More will drop again and funding will be passed.
Notice the bull**** spin in this article? The Dems couldn’t get their witdrawal date through the House, but now are being presented as if they got their way.
Technically no, it’s not treason, could be if war was ever declared, but it wasn’t. According to the resolution and the war powers act, it’s their option to fund it or not.
But I agree with your sentiment.
The title of the article is totally untrue at this point.
“Notice the bull**** spin in this article? “
Not very hard ... if anything like this came to his desk he would veto it also - ... Do they have a point besides wasting time ?
What is wrong with demanding some kind of progress over the months? Maybe it will get bush to fire his generals and find a real general grant among them who is serious about victory. I think we need to start being ruthless, we can’t have war without end.
He can veto again, can’t he?
The Harold Sun gets it wrong again as does the entire MSM.
There have been 2765 US KIA's in the Iraq War.
yes sir he can.
wonder how long this dance can go on, however, before the gummint is threatened with real shutdown.
She’s saying “Get out and just let Iraq collapse.”
No War $$$, No Checks to Ex Legislators.
Both parties will be going into '08 with a lot of baggage.
The spending, the border, the illegals, the CFR, the Rx give-away and so much more.
The only ones I'm not disappointed in are our fine people in uniform.
Link please?
It's just their way of making sure we have to listen to their bull all the time from here on out.
3379 of their comrades....most likely it is the Dems referring to their allies in Iraq.
The way this will play is the Senate will not even bother with this bill. There will be pre agreement in conference on what is to pass, and that will be a bill with the usual full year of funding, but some benchmarks on Iraqi progress that affects their foreign aid budget, and not military troop funding.
By the time the benchmarks are watered down, the Iraqi military and police will be fully funded and the surge will be fully funded. The Dems will hate it, and they will offer verbage to their puppet masters to make it look like victory, but in the end, Bush will get full funding for the troops and a set of reportable benchmarks that are likely to be easy to meet, or vague, or both.
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