PELOSI'S PRESCRIPTION FOR FAILURE (plays politics with funding for U.S. troops in Iraq)

November 9, 2007 -- Next time Nancy Pelosi tries to play politics with funding for U.S. troops in Iraq, she might want to check the newspaper first.

Pelosi announced yesterday that House Democrats would bring a vote, possibly as early as today, to insert a host of mission-hampering conditions into an appropriations bill needed to sustain the American effort.

Her bill would designate $50 billion over the next four months for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan - provided that President Bush immediately begin to draw down forces in Iraq, with all major combat operations to end by December 2008.

When Pelosi & Co. tried a similar stunt in May, the administration argued - rightly and persuasively - that Congress needed to give Gen. David Petraeus' troop surge time to work. Now that all signs indicate it is working, the Democrats' cut-and-run stubbornness seems all the more out of touch.

Just consider yesterday's New York Times. In a remarkable interview, Maj.-Gen. Joseph F. Fil Jr., the commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, told the paper that al Qaeda fighters have been completely routed from the city.

American troops, he said, have pacified fully 87 percent of Baghdad, with Shia militias controlling the last remaining holdouts. Murders in the city are down 80 percent since June, and displaced residents are slowly returning home.

To be sure, Fil insists that the peace his forces have brought is both incomplete and fragile: Shia militias remain to be dealt with; Iraq's political leadership is fractured, and real economic recovery is a long way off.

But while Pelosi sees the remaining challenges as proof that the surge has failed, they instead suggest just what a disaster her proposal could cause.

Their hatred of Bush knows no bounds. Damn the country as long as we can deny the President a legacy.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

The key matter here is the libmedia assisting Pelosi and the Dims for reneging on their commitment to end the war in Iraq.

They carried water for Pelosi when she issued those lies about how the Dims can't stop the war unless they have a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress.

It's a complete lie and libmedia helped promulgate it to the clueless Lefties, many of whom know the truth but don't want their sheeple followers to know it.

Naturally, the House can without any other action by the Senate, choose to defund the operations in Iraq. They can cut it off altogether or they can prescribe a schedule of reduced funding for maintaining forces there which would force a withdrawal unless Bush chose to leave them there, broke and unfunded. And he wouldn't do that.

They pretend he'll veto everything that contains any restrictions. That's not true. If push came to shove and the Dims refused to fund the war, Bush would have to accept it. Only the House has the federal purse strings. (In the old pre-Bush days, I wouldn't bother to state that but so many newer FReepers don't know their Constitution.)

At any rate, all this funding and expanding of the war while blaming Bush for it is a complete lie and is actively aided and abetted by the libmedia. The Dims want to fund the war while pretending they're powerless to stop it. And only people who don't understand history and the Constitution will fall for it.

This is not the George Bush war in Iraq. This is the Dim war in Iraq because it is they who are funding it!!!! It cannot be repeated enough.

Indeed. With even the reality on the ground in Iraq finding its way through the propaganda to even the remote area of page 19 of the NY Slimes, what else can you say about Pelosi’s comments.

Treason is the only word for it.

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