Reply #60: Explain to me how any member of Congress, Dem or GOP, could possibly ... [View All]

[TahitiNut]

... contemplate not impeaching Cheney/Bush at the same time they contemplate that Cheney/Bush would strand the troops in Iraq if the funding for combat operations in Iraq were suspended/run out?

If funding funding for combat operations in Iraq were brought to a halt, as the Constitution provides, and the pResident were to order the military to NOT transport and redeploy those troops, then how could anyone possibly sit still for such an overtly criminal and INSANE act?

Remember, the cessation of funding for combat operations in Iraq would NOT stop funding for the operations of the military in other endeavors. Ships would still be fueled. Aircraft would still take off and land all over the world. Military bases in Germany, Italy, Diego Garcia, and hundreds of other locations all over the world would still operate. It would take an overt act on the part of the "Kommander In Chief" to BLOCK the redeployment and evacuation of troops from Iraq.

Describe, in detail, how such a scenario could possibly develop ... ASSUMING (as you do) that the "votes for impeachment aren't there."

This discussion supposedly focuses on some "real world" rationale for the behavior of Congress - NOT some parade of horribles. Such "positions of convenience" about alleged future events and conditions are mutually inconsistent and baseless.