Congress Dems and Reps are trying to humor a madman, and people are dying because of this farce

[BurtWorm]

Bush is without a doubt the most imbecilic spoiled brat to occupy the White House. Anyone with eyes can see what a tragic mess he and his enablers have made of Iraq. So what is Congress's response to this absurd horror of a jam the nation is in? It's to allow the farce to go on, while Iraq and the American military bleed and bleed, until some unforeseen point when, by some unknown miracle, the impacted shit Bush will move.

21 more months of this! 21 more months!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/30/AR2007043001527.html?nav=rss_politics


Republicans Buck Bush On Iraq Benchmarks

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 1, 2007; Page A05

Brushing aside White House opposition, Republican leaders in Congress said yesterday that negotiations on a second war spending bill should begin with benchmarks of success for the Iraqi government, and possible consequences if those benchmarks are not met.

Democratic leaders will send a $124 billion war funding bill to President Bush today that would establish such benchmarks and tie them to troop withdrawals, which would begin as early as July 1 if they are not met. The bill will arrive at the White House on the fourth anniversary of Bush's speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, when he declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq before a banner that proclaimed "Mission Accomplished."

The administration dispatched Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday to try to slam shut bipartisan talk of punishing the Iraqi government for not meeting benchmarks. Bush took the same uncompromising tone yesterday when he reiterated his veto promise.

"That's not to say I'm not interested in their opinions. I am," he said of congressional leaders. "I look forward to working with members of both parties to get a bill that doesn't set artificial timetables and doesn't micromanage and gets the money to our troops."

But GOP leaders did not take the benchmark issue off the table. House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) suggested last week that although Republicans could not accept linking benchmarks to troop withdrawals, they could tie them to $5.7 billion in nonmilitary assistance for the Iraqi government.


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[bdamomma]

1. he get take those empty slogans and shove them up his a$$.

[madokie]

2. I'll lend a hand if need be

[Rydz777]

3. "Benchmarks" are a fraud

We need 2007 withdrawal dates written into appropriation legislation.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Listening to AAR this morning and a woman whose husband is in the Army said that

everyone she knows hates bu$h, thinks he is a chickenhawk and that they just want to bring their fellow troops home. She also said that when she goes to the base commissary that there are women there using food stamps. She said that her husband didn't join the Army too be lied to, that he didn't join up to fight in an immoral war based on lies. :yoiks: