Question: how does Congress ‘discontinue funding for the war’?

[SnoopDog]

Is it just a bill with simply majorities in the House and Senate to stop funding?

Is a cloture vote required in the Senate to proceed with a funding bill?

Could this have ended the Iraq Occupation – just vote to not fund the war?

[BlooInBloo]

1. By not passing anything.

[SnoopDog]

3. So, the argument that some voted for the funding...

...to get those special IED proof Humvees is really just a smoke screen

[dave_p]

5. Yes

Special IED proof Humvees aren't high-priority across most of the planet.

[SnoopDog]

6. Just in case I was misunderstood…

Yes, we need to protect our guys totally and always….

But the Dems could have just stop funding the war and our guys would be coming home…

[dave_p]

11. Agreed

My apologies if I misread you

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[MNDemNY]

2. They do it by NOT passing a bill. Simple as that.

[napi21]

4. By not passing anything OR by not introducing any bill at all!

Actually, the idea of simply not ever bringing a funding bill to the floor sounds like the easiest way to me. Remember how ticked off the Dems were at the Pubs for never letting any Dem bills come to the floor? Well, bay back's a b.......

[MadHound]

7. Easy, as the majority power in Congress, Dems control the agenda

They can simply hold up any and all supplemental war funding bills in committee forever, and thus force the troops to come home.

[EVDebs]

8. More and more MILITARY insiders will spread the word and act pragmatically

WestPointGradsAgainstTheWar.org
http://www.westpointgradsagainstthewar.org/

go a long way, and at commencement a grad actually refused to shake Cheney's hand. The word is getting out, even if M$M refuses to cover it.

I remember in the book Decent Interval where, when Saigon fell, the lack of planning (Operation Eagle Pull) was simply a fiasco running itself, and back home the Pentagon's men were more concerned with being able to get gas, the gas lines from the oil embargo was going on at around that time, in order to make it to work.

The long slow decline, with 'Vietnamization' and Nixon's claim to be able to end the war quickly--which he did not, only slowed the inevitable while Nixon himself installed hardliner Amb. Graham A. Martin in Saigon.

When they can't tell the troops what the mission's purpose is you know they're in way over their heads.

They should have followed Murtha's advice. Keep spreading the word that the M$M refuses to tell. This is how Vietnam ended, only then it was quicker since Walter Cronkite and others were pointing the inconvenient truth out in the light of day, not just by word of mouth. When the M$M catches up it will hit like a hammer.

[Bitwit1234]

9. I don't think not approving a bill would help at all because

the republican administration would just keep on with war. I bet they would not stop anything.

[TahitiNut]

10. Heaven forbid that Cheney/Bush do something that violates the Constitution.

... like projecting military force without funding provided by Congress as mandated by the Constituion. After all, we all know that impeachment is "off the table" so we're totally helpless when the Constitution is used as toilet paper. Wahh. Wahh. Wahh.

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