Bush Cuts Off Funding For Our Troops

[Purveyor]

Source: Pacific Northwest Progressive

Bush vetoed legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq Tuesday night in a historic showdown with Congress over whether the unpopular and costly war should end or escalate.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi had this to say in response:

The president wants a blank check. The Congress is not going to give it to him. The president said, in his comments, he did not believe in timelines, and he spoke out very forcefully against them.

Yet in 1999, on June 5th, then-Governor Bush said, about President Clinton, "I think it's important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they would be withdrawn."


Read more: http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2007/05/bush-cuts-off-funding-for-our-troops.html

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Finally, a headline title that accurately defines this 'veto'...

[Pab Sungenis]

1. Yet Pelosi IS going to give him a blank check.

She and Reid have said they'll send up a bill without the withdrawal provisions. Ergo, blank check.

[tridim]

6. Got a link for that?

I'm still catching up after work.

[Purveyor]

7. Then Pelosi needs to hear, loud and clear from her "base" of supporters.

At best, they should send up a '2 month' funding bill for the troops.

At best!!!

[uppityperson]

13. Is there a link? thank you

[Pab Sungenis]

16. Here.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq

Lacking the votes to override the president, Democrats have already signaled they intend to approve a replacement bill stripped of the troop withdrawal timetable. Determined to challenge Bush's policy, they are turning their attention to setting goals for the Iraqi government to meet as it struggles to establish a more secure, democratic society.

(Emphasis mine)

[frogcycle]

15. I would love for them to send a bill with no timetable

but a statement that "I, George W. Bush, am a lying sack of shit. I am responsible for the unnecessary deaths of thousands of brave Americans in a war of choice to satisfy my own ego."

[uppityperson]

2. k&r for an accurate headline

[Purveyor]

3. I'm hoping there are many more just like this in the morning papers... eom

[rodeodance]

5. I am not waiting s I will send to all I know with the headline as the Subject

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[uppityperson]

8. True, should be in GD, not LBN

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[uppityperson]

11. How about asking mods to move to GD instead?

DU rules and standards.

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. LOL

Yeah, I'm the pissy one.

Just follow the DU rules, ace. They're not my standards; they're the community's standards, as set by the owners and moderators of the board.

They're there for a reason.

[MGKrebs]

10. So faced with a budget shortfall, Bush would keep the soldiers there

in harms way, without supplies? Of all possible options, that is the craziest.

[John Q. Citizen]

12. Good for him! It's about time. When do they get home?

[TheBaldyMan]

17. k&r for the most accurate headline for the day. n/t