Posted on 11/29/2007 9:12:11 PM PST by smoothsailing
Bush may be willing to negotiate Iraq pullout, Murtha says
By Brian Bowling
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, November 30, 2007
U.S. Rep. John Murtha believes the Bush administration is beginning to show a willingness to negotiate with Congress an end to the war in Iraq.
The Johnstown Democrat said Thursday that Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, Bush's "war czar" for Iraq and Afghanistan, called him Wednesday after Murtha returned from a four-day tour of Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey and Belgium. Congressional leaders want to meet with Bush to discuss a plan for getting out of Iraq.
"In talking to General Lute, I got the impression that this is something that we might finally get to," Murtha said during a video conference from his Johnstown office.
President Bush is pressing Congress to approve at least $50 billion of the $200 billion the Pentagon estimates it needs to continue the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through September.
Murtha, chairman of the defense subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee and a critic of the Iraq war, helped shepherd a bill through the House that would give the Defense Department the $50 billion, but require it to pull all U.S. troops out of Iraq by December 2008. The Senate hasn't passed any version of the bill.
Congressional leaders are willing to bend on that deadline if they can get a plan for ending the conflict, which is costing the country $14 billion a month, Murtha said.
White House spokesman Alex Conant said the administration hasn't changed its position. Shortly after a meeting with Pentagon officials yesterday, Bush repeated his demand for the money with no strings attached.
"Let us tell our men and women in uniform that we will give them what they need to succeed in their missions, without strings and without delay," Bush said....
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Murtha is hoping and praying that GW will not hurt them too bad as he has them bent over a barrel on Iraq. The dumbass dems led by the Reid and Pelosi have painted themselves into a corner wit hno way getting out. Murtha almost sounds pleading. Man up Murtha, you made your bed, now sleep in it.
Murtha wanted to get invited to the VI day victory parade.
Somebody is crazy and Dear God, I hope it isn’t GWB.
Na, this is way the Dims rewrite history.
It’s the beginning of their plan, and was predicted here, soon their MSM will pick up this narrative.
By winning and pulling some troops out, will of course mean we lost.
Bush is the winner, Murtha the nutcase.
And I just got done eating. Why no BARF Alert?!!
It wont last long.
“LOL! Wasn’t the Delusion Alert instructive enough? :-)”
It should of been, but now I have to run my keyboard through the dishwasher..:)
You're correct, Smooth, This horses a$$ Murtha is delusional. It's laughable for him to say the RATS will now work with the administration on the deadline for withdrawing troops. We've about won the conflict there which they said was lost but now they're willing to bend.
ROTFLMAO!!
Why hasn’t this guy been hung for treason yet??
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Murtha is one incredible fool. And he thinks the American people are very stupid. He’s wrong about that, among other things he’s wrong about.
Murtha’s name is a barf alert.
It’s a beautiful thing to watch them scamper, isn’t it, FRiend? And where are the cut-and-run Freepers we fought for so long? Not a peep lately...:-)
Yes my FRiend, many defeatists on this forum are hiding now, they cannot handle the truth of our VICTORY in Iraq.
You are what FR is all about, IMO.
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