New Effort To End War Set Monday - Democrats Eye Bid in Senate

The New York Sun ^

[Sub-Driver]

New Effort To End War Set Monday Democrats Eye Bid in Senate

By ARI LAMM Special to the Sun July 5, 2007

WASHINGTON — Five weeks after President Bush won unfettered funding for America to fight the war in Iraq until September, Senate Democrats will try again on Monday to end the war.

Their opening gambit this summer will be three key amendments to the 2008 bill that authorizes defense spending. The bill is set to be marked up on July 9. Most appealing to wavering Republicans will be an amendment offered by a senator who served as President Reagan's secretary of the Navy, a Democrat from Virginia, James Webb. Mr. Webb proposes to lengthen the leave time of active and reserve duty soldiers, making reinforcement of the current surge next to impossible.

Also offering amendments are Senator Feingold of Wisconsin and Senator Levin of Michigan. Mr. Levin, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, would mandate troop withdrawals within four months of the law's passage unless the Iraqi government meets political and security benchmarks. The bill allows Mr. Bush waiver authority. Mr. Feingold's amendment requires the president to withdraw nearly all of the troops in Iraq by the middle of the presidential election season, April 2008.

"We are burning out our ground forces," Mr. Webb said at a press conference alongside Democratic governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, this week. "If we're honest about wanting to support our troops, there's no better place to start than to correct our troop-rotation policy."

[Darkwolf377]

making reinforcement of the current surge next to impossible.

Let's say a Senator did this during WW2.

Now, what would you say about that Senator?

Whatever it is, it applies now.

On the other hand, isn't it GREAT that the Democrats are so very concerned about the welfare of our soldiers--you know, the ones who flunked out and ended up in Iraq?

[JoeSixPack1]

..., Senate Democrats will try again on Monday to end the war.

The description of what they're doing is moronic. They aren't voting to end the war, they could care less. They're voting to surrender, bring the troops away from the fight, spend the defense money on social programs and very simply wish it all goes away.

Maybe they're just waiting till the loss of life ultimately demands a genocide? One that doesn't insist that they get their hands dirty and doesn't take longer that a commercial break.

They're all fools.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I have a novel idea....how about the democraps focus on WINNING the war?

I know, it’s too much to ask from a bunch of socialists, communists, anti-military moonbats and tree huggers.

[OKIEDOC]

I wonder when the Dems are going to get around to doing something for America?

[mathluv]

Sounds like we need to start another e-mail session to stop this idiotcy.

[libertylover]

Five weeks after President Bush won unfettered funding for America to fight the war in Iraq until September, Senate Democrats will try again on Monday to end the war force surrender.

There. That's more accurate.

[sonofagun]

Since Bush couldn’t deliver “immigration reform” to the dems this was to be expected.

[Darkwolf377]

LOL

Writer Dan Simmons wrote a long essay about this situation, and he pointed out that the Dems are advocating surrender--there simply is no other way to put it.

In the distant past I thought that the Dems MIGHT have been trying, with Vietnam, to end the fighting, but this just confirms it--in all wars, they are simply trying to make it impossible for the US to wage any kind of war. It's that simple.

Now I'm just trying to figure out if they're ALL pacifist socialists, or if there are a couple who are just stupid...

[anoldafvet]

A couple who are just stupid? Surely you jest.

[Darkwolf377]

A couple who are just stupid? Surely you jest.

Everytime Dick Durbin speaks....

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET

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After Sen. TED KENNEDY fooled a post-WATERGATE Democrat Congress into cutting off all our funding for the then Free South Vietnamese people to fight for their own Freedom with...came:

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Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com

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What Price for the still Free to pay now (that’s US), I wonder,

in a new time of war
in a new century
with our own Freedom
directly at stake
...right here at home..?

News of 12 million suddenly missing Iraqi purple voting fingers on our TV screens for starters..?

BET on it.

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NEVER FORGET

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[ElectricStrawberry]

would mandate troop withdrawals within four months of the law's passage unless the Iraqi government meets political and security benchmarks.

Cut funding or do not cut funding........THAT is your power, Mr. Senator.

[VRWCmember]

There are only two ways to end a war: Victory or Surrender. Which choice are the democrats advocating.

[hsalaw]

Time for the same mail-phone-e-mail campaign that defeated the amnesty bill. We’ve GOT to let the defeatists know that we won’t stand for having the rug pulled out from under our troops and our national security by these moronic leftist surrender groups.

[syriacus]

Korea was freed from years of Japanese occupation in 1945.
Truman's administration pulled our troops out of South Korea by 1949, even though South Korea was suffering from political and social unrest and the Democrats were warned not to do so.

In 1950 Truman felt it necessary to send our troops back to Korea, under the guise of fighting a "police action" against "bandits." In reality, North Korea invaded and occupied most of the South that year.

30,000 Americans died in Korea in the remaining 30 months of Truman's presidency.

Those 30,000 deaths would not have occurred if we had not abandoned South Korea prematurely