Posted on 05/01/2007 10:37:40 AM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Anti-war legislation on the way to President Bush for his promised veto represents a rare rebuke by Congress of a large and ongoing ground conflict, even eclipsing challenges made during the Vietnam War.
While a bill ordering troops home from an ongoing military mission is not unprecedented — legislation aimed at conflicts in Somalia and Haiti are other examples — the Iraq bill is an unusually swift feat by a Congress forcefully challenging a war involving thousands of U.S. troops.
"Congress is not shy usually about attempting to create problems for a president when a war becomes unpopular," said Julian Zelizer, a congressional historian and professor at Boston University. "But I think the significance here is that in a big war, they were able to at least get the legislation to the president's desk pretty early from a historical perspective."
Congress' role in Iraq policy has dominated Capitol Hill since Democrats regained the majority in January, a change in party control due in large part to voter frustration with the war. The campaign is in its fifth year, with more than 3,300 troops dead and tens of thousands more wounded. Tuesday is the fourth anniversary of Bush's May 1, 2003 "Mission Accomplished" speech aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, in which he declared, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
Last week, Democrats said they were acting on a mandate by voters when they passed the legislation, which calls for troops to begin leaving Iraq by Oct. 1. Lawmakers are expected to fall short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a Bush veto.
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This is because the 60’s hippies are in power at the moment.
Once these craptastic Baby Boomers all die off, maybe we can fix what they broke.
You are so right it’s frightening.
Flower children with law degrees.
Mixed up then, mixed up now.
Always gets to me when they say they have a mandate from the voters. They never talk to the voters. They say they are doing the people business but don’t even know what the peoples business is. If doing the peoples business means making us all look like a bunch of cowards..........we need a major change in Washington.
Well put.
Within a few years Truman sent troops back to Korea, because the army of Kim il-Sung had invaded the South and conquered most of it.
Within 30 months of Truman sending US troops back to Korea, 30,000 Americans died there.
Those men did not need to die.
Silly Dems.
I think illegal immigration is the reason republicans are losing supporters. The president is undermining himself by thumbing his nose at millions of Americans.
The Dims can no longer claim to support the troops and be believed. They don’t support the troops when they want them to return home as losers.
Nobody would even treat their high school football team like the Dims are treating the troops. It’s like ordering them off the field and into the locker room mid way through the third quarter when they’re behind but driving toward a score.
Who cares? The bill is going no where, and it’s a Democrat dog-and-pony show.
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