Senator Says Troops Want Congress To Cut Off War Funding

[babylonsister]

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/salazar_says_troops_want_congress_to_eye_cutting_off_war_funding.php

Senator Says Troops Want Congress To Cut Off War Funding
By Greg Sargent - September 17, 2007, 5:27PM

Woah, this is interesting. Colorado Senator Ken Salazar -- who's taken a bunch of heat for backing toothless Iraq War measures -- is now flirting with the ultimate: Cutting off funding for the war. From the Denver Post:

Washington -- Congress should look at cutting off funding for the Iraq War if Senate efforts to change the role of U.S. troops in the battlefield fail, Sen. Ken Salazar said Monday.

Salazar, a Colorado Democrat, previously has not supported Congress using its ability to stop war payments in order to force President Bush to change direction..."If it could be done then I think we ought to take a look at it," Salazar said.

Even more interesting, guess who has been encouraging Salazar to pursue this option?

While in Iraq over the weekend, Salazar said, some service men and women told him that they wanted Congress to cut off funding.

Some soldiers want war funding cut off? But isn't advocating for that tantamount to being anti-troops, and aren't Congressional Dem leaders certain that such a measure would automatically be perceived that way? That's what we keep hearing, anyway.

[burythehatchet]

1. Boy, they're really trying to piss Nancy off. What will the voters think in 08?

[Nite Owl]

2. Salazar!?!????

Geez, if he can vote for cutting off the funding their might be hope. He's way right of center.

[Lucinda]

4. Just saw senators Salazar and Snowe being interviewed

regarding their recent trip to Iraq.
They both said that it was clear from their meetings on the ground in Iraq that our presence was not going to help the the Iraqis solve their problems and we needed to get out (paraphrasing them both)

[cui bono]

16. What show did you see them on?

[Lucinda]

20. I think it was CNN

I flip between CNN and MSNBC...but i think it was CNN. Mid-afternoon today.
Cant find a peep about it anywhere.

I believe they said they were giving a report on their trip later this week.

[babylonsister]

6. That was a (good) shocker! nt

[lvx35]

23. Many of those who've identified with the right are trying to salvage their reputation.

More recently, but some conservatives have been since the beginning:
http://antiwar.com/justin/

[lonestarnot]

3. Woootie Woot Woot. Waiting and counting!

[Disturbed]

5. Are the troops finally getting the idea that their blood for oil

isn't what they signed up for?

[lonestarnot]

9. I sure as hell hope so!

[helderheid]

7. 5th

[Toots]

8. They just want to come home

I would bet that even the most brainwashed soldier in Iraq if given the choice of staying there until we win or catching the next plane back to the states would pick the latter in a heart beat...just saying..

[babylonsister]

10. You know it! nt

[tridim]

12. Of course they do.. But just last week the GOP was claiming..

that the troops they talked to want only to "Finish the mission". Whatever that means.

Fucking liars all.

[AntiFascist]

22. K&R, finishing an undefined mission is tantamount to suicide...

they may as well be waiting to get raptured.

[Fla_Democrat]

11. It would be interesting to see

how the request was worded. :think:

[wildbilln864]

13. K&R! n/t

[EVDebs]

14. Tweety hints that GOP wants to sell 'naming rights' to Arlington Natn'l Cemetery

Another DU post hints that the GOP wants to sell naming rights to Arlington Natn'l Cemetery

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1828463

[cui bono]

15. Why won't the troops support the troops?

[goodhue]

17. Wow, if Salazar says cut the funding, this is big progress

eom

[hootinholler]

18. Da troops ain't stoops!

They know what's up.

-Hoot

[Rydz777]

19. Supporting the troops means bringing them home NOW, alive

and with their limbs attached. They are caught in the middle of a civil war not of their making, and held hostage to Bush's pride.

[IronLionZion]

21. The troops don't support themselves

it's sad that so many of our soldiers hate America. You know, the vast majority of Americans are way outside of the mainstream. There are very few Americans left who are mainstream.

:sarcasm:

[Colorado Progressive]

24. Calling Salazar's office now, thanks for posting!!!! nt