Congress Wants Answers on Bush's Plans for Iraq (LA Times)

[huckleberry]

hmmm - I wonder if this is a result of the 60 minutes interview?


With anxiety growing back home, lawmakers summon officials to detail efforts to stem the violence and meet a power-transfer deadline.

By Mary Curtius, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — An increasingly anxious Congress has summoned Bush administration officials to testify this week on their plans for quelling violence in Iraq and for handing power over to Iraqis by June 30.

Three congressional committees have scheduled hearings that Republican lawmakers hope will produce information they need to explain President Bush's Iraq policy to increasingly restive constituents. Democrats say the hearings will provide a forum for criticizing what they say have been the administration's missteps.

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"Congress would like to know what is going on, because there hasn't been any sharing," said the aide, who spoke on condition his name not be used. "Time is running out in terms of the transition. If the administration is not prepared, or does not have the planning in place, these hearings will focus the effort to do that. It will be a significant week."

An aide to one of the Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee acknowledged that the administration had enjoyed great latitude and little congressional oversight of its policies in Iraq. But the dynamic has changed, he said, because of the Shiite uprising in Baghdad, Najaf and Karbala, as well as the ongoing attacks on U.S. contractors and troops by Sunni guerrillas and the kidnapping of foreign nationals.


more at
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-na-congiraq19apr19,1,2678079.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[still_one]

1. Oh wonderful

Now Congress wants answers, where the Fu*k were they 3 years ago.

They gave him carte blance on everything.

[dusty64]

9. Thats exactly

what I was thinking. Wonder if they'll have anything to say about the 700 million $$$.

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. This line really says it all..

"An aide to one of the Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee acknowledged that the administration had enjoyed great latitude and little congressional oversight of its policies in Iraq."



>Maybe you fucking clowns could have thought of that before you crowned him the boy king and gave him unchecked power.

[Tellurian]

3. "But the dynamic has changed,"

Not because of the uprisings, but because of the 9/11 Commission hearings.

The Bush Administration's credibility is shot!

[KissMyAsscroft]

5. The dynamic changed because we are failing..

The Repukes don't mind invading a country to steal their oil as long as it goes well.

[Tellurian]

4. kick...

[opihimoimoi]

7. Wait till they get the details of how he shared with foreign agents

of the war plans, complete with maps, and excluded them(Congress)

They gonna be pissed.

[burrowowl]

6. Plans, strategy ...?

Congress knew damn good and well that the maladministration had no plans for Iraqi but to enrich Haliburton et al when they gave Boo$hie permission to do what he wanted.
Will 135,000 troops be enough, hell no? Is Congress going to reinstate the DRAFT?
Congress should examine its conscience and get after Bu$hCo and themselves.
BRING THEM HOME NOW, should be Congress' move by cutting off funding.

[Zinfandel]

8. This has about as much impact as Nancy Reagan stomping her foot and

saying "just say no". All fluff and image, no substance.

A show for the folks back in their home districts.

Nothing more...these fucks are tied to Bush and it's their own smugness, allowing BushCo anything they wanted...now they are close to shitting in their pants.

Too late, nothing they could do about it, the shits going to be running down their pants leg...and they'll go hard on the attack.