Posted on 01/07/2007 7:51:21 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Pelosi hints at denying Bush Iraq funds
12 minutes ago
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said newly empowered Democrats will not give President Bush a blank check to wage war in Iraq, hinting they could deny funding if he seeks additional troops.
"If the president chooses to escalate the war, in his budget request, we want to see a distinction between what is there to support the troops who are there now," she said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
"The American people and the Congress support those troops. We will not abandon them. But if the president wants to add to this mission, he is going to have to justify it and this is new for him because up until now the Republican Congress has given him a blank check with no oversight, no standards, no conditions," said Pelosi, D-Calif.
Her comments on CBS' "Face the Nation" came as Bush worked to finish his new war plan that could send as many as 20,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq and provide more money for jobs and reconstruction programs.
Bush is expected to announce his plan as early as Wednesday.
When asked about the possibility of cutting off funds, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer declined to say whether Democrats might do so, saying only that the current strategy clearly is "not working."
"I don't want to anticipate that," said Hoyer, D-Md., on "Fox News Sunday."
Some military officials, familiar with the discussions, say Bush at first could send 8,000 to 10,000 new troops to Baghdad, and possibly Anbar Province, and leave himself the option of adding more later if security does not improve.
"Based on the advice of current and former military leaders, we believe this tactic would be a serious mistake," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,
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Phase III of the Democrat plan to defeat America in Iraq. Modeled after the successful 1974 Plan that defunded Vietnam and sacrificed millions of Southeast Asians in the killing fields.
And I know the American people won't allow this to happen, after the troops that have given their lives for this war....no way will they let this happen....
I'd like to believe that, but I can't....I witnessed the same thing in the 70's.......
Geez, you would have been hard pressed to find a worse enemy for our troops as speaker of the house. If she try's any of that crap I think she'll find that a lot of southern democrats will abandon her ass faster than you can say Jack Robinson.
Well... everyone knew she would be Speaker if the Dhimmi's gained control in November. It obviously was not a major factor in the minds of most voters.
That said... America's head is so far up its butt... it's wearing a sh*t necklace.
so did I...I have a husband that had dirty baby diapers thrown at him and was yelled at as 'baby killer' etc.
The difference now is that we have a solid republican/conservative radio audience; we have cable news; we have the internet with republican/conservative programs on it; and we have the power of the email; snail mail; we can reach further and faster than we could then....everything is to our advantage....
This is the SAME tactic used by the Democrats Communists in Congress to lose the war in Vietnam....
America must soon face the reality --- defeat Leftists in America or America becomes another Turd World entity...
Semper Fiu
Let the Liberal sabotage games begin. They want to destroy our country, our economy, our military, our freedoms, and our way of life. If Pelosi thinks the American people are that stupid, let her give it games her best try. What a traitorous POS.
So much for our bold pronouncements of "never again".
American patriots have again let the MSM win.
There are just not enough of us to defeat the "Worst Generation", since they remain supreme in power and influence, still.
I agree with you.....were are they? When a serious discussion starts about why they sat home to show us a lesson, they run and hid under their beds.....
Queen Nancy doesn't have the votes to do this.
"I'd like to believe that, but I can't....I witnessed the same thing in the 70's......."
Exactly right. Sadly.
Polling showed the American public still firmly in support of the war in Vietnam, despite across-the-board media efforts to glorify and inflate the size of the "antiwar movement".
Still the war was abandoned just as it was there to be decisively won.
Please try.
President Bush will call your bluff. He probably is biting the bullet waiting for you to do it.
You will pay the political price, not him
That noise you hear is our brave patriots turning in their graves. Our ancestors must be gagging on Pelosi and her anti-American, traitorous cohorts in the Democrat Party. Those that sat home during the last election better say a prayer for what they wrought on our country. They, too, have to live through this disgrace.
My son's enlistment is up in May...up until now I have been encouraging him to re-enlist...I'm not so sure anymore.
I'm sad that so many here have bought into Nancy's fantasy of being the most powerful person in the world. She's just blowing smoke and she knows it.
The GOP needs to run TV ads telling the American idiots just what they brought upon themselves. Some still have no clue what Pelosi and her gang of traitors has in store for the country. It ain't pretty!
the new democrat congress......scu%bags in action.
Can we fund the troops ourselves? George Washington funded the first war with most of his own money?
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