WH 'Confused' Over Clinton Iraq Bill

[bigtree]

May 4, 2007

The White House said Friday officials are "confused and disappointed" by a measure offered by U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton withdrawing approval for the Iraq war.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino noted the bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Harry Byrd, D-Va., was offered "only a few hours after (White House Chief of Staff) Josh Bolten had met with the Republican and Democratic leadership" over supplemental funding for the war. Tuesday, President Bush vetoed a $124 billion supplemental spending bill because it contained a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.

"Well, we were slightly confused and disappointed when yesterday" Clinton, D-N.Y., introduced the bill to show what the senator's aides characterized as her staunch opposition to the war, Perino said.

"Look, I think that there's going to (be too) many attempts to try to put a surrender date on the calendar," Perino told the daily press briefing. "The president is not going to accept one. And I think that a little bit of last night, what you saw was a little bit of presidential politics, and we might see more of it, but the president has a principled stance that he is not going to change."


http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21278764.shtml


more nonsense about a 'surrender' . . . cretins

This is the type of response that Clinton usually generates. She really gets under their skin. These types of responses only make her look like more of a threatening adversary.

This round: Clinton

[Monkeyman]

1. White House Confused They been that way all the time

[fob]

2. Please tell me that "Harry Byrd D-VA" is NOT what dana said.

"... co-sponsored by Sen. Harry Byrd, D-Va., ..."

Harry Byrd?!!?

D-VA?!!?

Yep, it's there in the link. No wonder they're confused, who the FUCK is Harry Byrd and when did he bcome a Senator in Virginia!

[Hippo_Tron]

9. Harry F Byrd was a pro-segregation Senator from Virginia

Who won Mississippi and part of Alabama's electoral votes in 1960 as a Dixiecrat. He's been dead for quite some time.

[fob]

15. AHA! (further) Proof that republikers are disconnected from reality

by about 50 years.

[Supersedeas]

3. Perino really is a lapdog

[mmonk]

4. What do you think of this take?

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/


Lindorf claims bush can claim the right and keep going under the 2001 Authorization to Use Force.

[bigtree]

5. that's the fight I would angle for

The original authorizes force against the original folks they claim were perpetrators of 9-11, not folks who happen to take on their name after the fact.

[mmonk]

6. Me too

but we all know the kind of person we're dealing with in the White House.

[dave_p]

10. That's the 911 Resolution

The entirely different Iraq resolution says "The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate" in Iraq. Note, as he determines - not you, not me, not even Congress.

Congress has to pull the plug on the funding: the WH isn't going to accept anything else - I doubt it'd even accept the validity of a law prohibiting further participation. And I'm still sickened that anyone could have voted this contemptible thing in the first place.

[dave_p]

8. he will

"The president is not going to accept one " sounds like that's going to be the WH posture. And since there was no expiry date in the IWR, it's difficult to prove otherwise. Can a Resolution be repealed like a piece of legislation? I'm not sure: the War Powers Resolution says nothing about revoking authorization.

They're leaving no way of ending the war short of stopping the funding outright. I say do it.

[paparush]

7. Its no longer a WAR... Its an OCCUPATION!!

Start banging that drum!!

[dave_p]

11. Doesn't matter

"The President is authorized to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate".

War, occupation, police action - makes no difference. Time to pull that funding.

[Javaman]

12. I'm really glad that Clinton did this.

when earlier on she was saying that the war would end if she became prez, that was just so completely weak.

She introducing this bill means she's finally listening to people.

I'm still not a supporter of hers, but it at least made me look in her direction.

I have yet to make a choice, it's still way to early for me.

[onethatcares]

14. lets see if she stands behind her words

for some reason I think opportunity is knocking, it might be an unattainable opportunity but it looks good to go for it.

[bigtree]

17. every issue is an opportunity for our legislators

I don't care about her campaign as much as I do about her responsibilities as a senator.

[damntexdem]

13. The WH needs to be more efficient:

by stating what it's NOT confused by.

[bigtree]

16. I like that

[FloridaJudy]

18. Hillary needs to re-write it for a second grade reading level. n/t