House likely to pass Iraq bill Thursday

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - The White House acknowledged public frustration with the Iraq war but tried to play down Republican anxieties Thursday as the House prepared to pass legislation that could cut off funding for U.S. troops as early as July.

The bill is hotly contested by the White House, opposed by nearly all Republicans and unlikely to survive in the Senate. House Democratic leaders acknowledged the bill's dim prospects but said the final version sent to the president will not be a blank check on the war.

"When we go to conference, there are certain principles: Supporting our troops, honoring our commitments to our veterans, holding the Iraqis accountable and strengthening our military," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif.

The White House confirmed that Bush held an unannounced meeting this week with House Republican moderates who expressed deepening concerns about the war. Several participants described a remarkably blunt discussion in which lawmakers told the president the war was unsustainable without public support, and was having a corrosive effect on GOP political fortunes.

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"And I'm telling you that where the rubber meets the road, right now here in Washington, Republicans are united, Democrats are divided. Period." Snow said, "If you want disunity, there's far more disunity on the Democratic side."





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Bush under pressure from Republicans on Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush is under mounting pressure from fellow Republicans to show substantial progress in Iraq by September or risk their desertion.

Republicans looking ahead to the 2008 U.S. presidential election, after already losing control of the U.S. Congress in November, are publicly sharing doubts about the president's war strategy.

"The American people are war-fatigued. The American people want to know that there's a way out. The American people want to know that we're having success," Illinois Republican Rep. Ray LaHood told CNN on Thursday.

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"Members really told the president, in I think the most unvarnished way that they possibly could, that things have got to change, that we're going to hang with him until September, but we need an honest assessment in September and people's patience is running very, very, very thin," LaHood said.

White House spokesman Tony Snow refused to divulge details of the meeting. Nor would he attach any particular significance to September as a time when progress needs to be evident.

more:http://in.news.yahoo.com/070510/137/6fly4.html

[mike_c]

1. snow-job is right-- it's time for democrats to stop playing political games...

...with crimes against humanity.

[Vincardog]

2. Tony Blow job is right. It is time for the Democratic leaders to stop playing politics and IMPEACH

Crimes against Humanity and nature

ARE NOT THE SAME as saying that a BJ is not the same as intercourse.

Stealing elections and whipping your a$$ on our Constitution
are IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES


Darth Cheney is going down too

Any RepubliKKKant who wants to lay his political life down in support of aWoL
is welcome To. Hopefully he/she will not be around much longer after they come up for re-election. The people deserve to know they stand with the Reich against the people anyway.