Heated Iraq Debate Unfolds in Congress

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030924/ap_on_go_co/congress_iraq&cid=512&ncid=1480

WASHINGTON - There was a time when Iraq was almost a nonpartisan issue in Congress. That clearly ended when President Bush requested an additional $87 billion for the war there. Now it's beyond political. It's nasty.

Sen. Ted Kennedy has called the war a fraud "made up in Texas," prompting a top Republican to accuse him of "hate speech." Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer was said to have faced "a maelstrom" when he met with Democrats behind closed doors.

And 85-year-old Robert Byrd, a Democratic senator from West Virginia since the Eisenhower administration, complained that he had never been treated with such discourtesy as he had been at a hearing on Bush's spending request.

That was the environment awaiting Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and two top generals who were scheduled to appear Wednesday before the Senate Appropriations Committee to defend Bush's spending request. Separately, Bremer was to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Better late than never

that the demos fight back

[PennyLane]

2. And They'd Better.......

.......keep the momentum flowing! I bet Karl Rove is up day and night trying to figure out what in the hell their next move should be!

[Jim Sagle]

3. That story is rated 5.0 - let's keep it that way!