Remember when Bush asked for another $196 billion dollars for his illegal and immoral war? Well the Democrats are talking tough again, they are going to shut down the war, demand the troops come home immedia....oh wait a moment, my imagination took over from the reality of what is actually happening. Reid, Pelosi et al. are going to give Bush a measly $50 billion (gasp) and ask (pretty, pretty please) that he start bringing troops home so that we'll be out of there by the end of next year. How much would you bet that Bush doesn't follow their suggestion?
From RawStory:
"This is not a blank check for the president," she said at a Capitol Hill news conference. "This is providing funding for the troops limited to a particular purpose, for a short time frame."
The bill would set the requirement that troop withdrawals begin immediately and that soldiers and Marines spend as much time at home as they do in combat.
The measure also identifies a goal that combat end by December 2008. After that, troops left behind should be restricted to a narrow sets of missions, namely counterterrorism, training Iraqi security forces and protecting U.S. assets, Democrats say.
Bush rejected a similar measure in May, and Democrats lacked the votes to override the veto.
Blah, blah, blah. It is a blank check, just not with the number Bush wants. He'll veto it with Republican support and make them cower into their holes offices until Pelosi and Reid agree to his every demand. If our "leaders" had any backbone, they'd cut off the funding now. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next month, now. Sadly, they don't and because of it more of our soldiers will be wounded, emotionally scarred or be sent home in a coffin.
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