And Reagan invented the 4th option: seek privately generated funding for the Contra effort. Reagan would not lay and take it when the dems cut of funding for the Black Op under Oly North.
Now we are coming up to a showdown on the same issue again, The dems cut funding for Vietnam, The ems cut funding for presidentail policy on the Contras, and noew they will cut funding for the WOT.
What will Bush do? Will he use the 4th option. I think President Bush has a plan B, and that Saudi funding for the war in Iraq is already plumbed out, and the tap is waiting to be turned.
The congress may control funding but they do not control war policy on a war that was voted for in Congress in both houses. The Dems cannot prevent the president from exercising his power as CinC.The Dems want American defeat in Iraq, for their own demeaning political ends, and I do not believe our president will give them the defeat of America in Iraq. He will, like Reagan, exercise option 4.
Bush won't do anything. He is worse than a lame duck. He has bungled this battle in Iraq and does nothing while Iran and Syria kill our soldiers whose hands are tied.
Now it looks like he's going to increase targets, oops, I mean troops. To do what? Not engage the enemy?
Are we fighting a war on terror or are we playing politics?
Close the damn borders, defeat our enemies by all means necessary and tell the Dims and the Euro-weenies to BITE US!