Why do they always get away with it???
Posted on 05/01/2007 9:38:44 AM PDT by Froufrou
An emergency war funding bill that includes a troop withdrawal date will arrive at the White House on Tuesday. President Bush says he'll veto it because it includes a withdrawal deadline, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "strongly encouraged" the president to sign it.
Reid on Monday said the bill "makes our country more secure by charting a new course in Iraq so that we can return our focus to the global challenges that lie ahead."
The Nevada Democrat called it a "good and responsible bill" that will "begin the long process of leading us out of a war that has cost us so many American lives and so much treasure."
Reid and other Democrats say the bill represents the will of the Congress as well as the will of the American people. The bill calls for the phased redeployment of U.S. troops beginning no later than October 1, 2007 and it sets a goal of removing all combat forces by April 1, 2008.
Reid noted that the U.S. death toll in Iraq exceeds 100 for the month of April -- making April the deadliest month of the year and one of the deadliest of the entire war. " If the president wonders why the American people have lost patience, it is because the news out of Iraq grows worse by the day," Reid said.
"We ask him again to listen to the American people and his own military experts. We ask that he finally summon the courage to admit his mistakes and take the steps we propose to begin to heal the grave wounds he has caused.
"This bill gives him a path forward, Reid said. "We ask him to follow it."
President Bush on Monday repeated his opposition to the bill, mainly because it includes "artificial timetables for withdrawal."
He accused Democrats of seeking to impose their own judgment on military commanders in the field; and he complained that the bill includes domestic spending that's unrelated to the war.
It's no coincidence that the war funding bill is arriving at the White House four years to the day after President Bush declared an end to "major combat operations in Iraq -- under a "Mission Accomplished" sign.
That message has returned to haunt him year after year.
President Bush says he is looking forward to working with both Republicans and Democrats to produce a bill that provides war funding without "artificial timetables."
He has invited congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday to discuss a war-funding bill he can sign.
Five years from now we’ll know every time a loaf of bread is stolen in Baghdad.
Hmm...who do we think knows more about counterinsurgency, Reid or McMaster, Hashim, Mansoor, Kilcullen, and the others in Gen. Patraeus’ “brain trust” of PhD’s who are planning the war effort?
Just what the hell does he think Iraq is all about in the first place? Make it a breeding ground for terrorists instead of a burial ground, and pretty soon they'll be knocking on his door in Las Vegas..........
Only thing the Democrats are concerned about is the pork involved with the bill. Strip all that out and support our troops. These people are fools but unless our people put their foot down, they’ll get away with it.
“good and responsible bill”
....and I believe hanging Harry Reid for treason would be a good and responsible action. This Democrat twit, who now supposedly heads the U.S. Senate, is a small minded politcal hack and terrorist enabler. Nevada must be very proud.
Reid doesn’t have the sense the good Lord gave to turnips.
A democracy is emerging smack dab in the middle of the Middle East. That's the best news of the day, year, century!
Read “Unholy Alliance” and get back to us, ‘kay? There will be a test...
I think you were too kind to jackieaxe. I was going to be much more harsh, but then I reminded myself, we should be kind to all people, including idiots.
I was going to take her point for point but she's just putting up a shotgun of scatter points to chase. If we leave Iraq now, we'll be back to finish it off and it will be a huge mess by comparison.
As Bob Marley once sang: "Cause he who fight and run away Live to fight another day."
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp
Evidently, Democrats think nothing of a total 360 degree about-face.
In the late 1940's the Truman administration prematurely withdrew our troops from South Korea and announced we no longer had an interest in that part of the world.
In 1950, the army of North Korea's Communist dictator Kim il-Sung invaded the South and controlled most of it.
Because we had prematurely abandoned South Korea, 30,000 Americans died in Korea in the last 30 months of Truman's presidency, fighting to re-win freedom for South Korea.
That’s quite an error in judgment, wouldn’t you say?
Yes. And to RE-win Korean freedom, Truman's administration felt it was necessary to use a military draft and impose the severest wartime censorship.
The Democrats would like us to forget that a Democratic presidency was responsible for those things.
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