Posted on 01/10/2007 5:17:51 AM PST by IrishMike
The theory seems to be percolating that President Bush is walking into a political trap here at home by readying a plan to rush more troops to Iraq to reinforce our GIs in the thick of the fight. Senator Biden, a Democrat, and Senator Warner, a Republican, are hyperventilating about how they want to consider the plan. Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi are in open opposition. By our lights it would be just dandy if they manage to force a vote on the issue. Go ahead and make the president's day. We have more than 100,000 GIs in Iraq being swarmed by a host of enemies, including some under direct orders from Al Qaeda and many supplied and financed from neighboring, terror-sponsoring countries. A showdown on what the Congress is prepared to do about it is just what the president needs.
We have no illusions about the fickleness of the Congress. We learned all about that in the fall of 1974 and the spring of 1975, when Congress put the skids under a free Vietnam. Yet even by that standard the speed with which the Democratic leadership is sounding the retreat in the Battle of Iraq must be unique in American history. The new speaker and the majority leader in the Senate chose their first day on the job to send their letter to the president telling him they intend to block the reinforcements, whatever the consequences to our men and women on the field of battle. The Pelosi-Reid epistle is one of the most shameful documents in the history of our national legislature — and that's no mean feat.
The new speaker and majority leader claimed to want to "do everything we can to help Iraq succeed in the future."
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Bush sends them in...and then Congress cuts their funding... and we have troops in the battlezone with no ammunition because Congress blocked it... I don't think even the Democrats are that stupid.
Bush should get them in now. Congress will not have a choice.
They will squeal, but they will fund.
It is obvious that jihadi want to fight. I learned that on 911.
But the media will blast the Dem's position all over the papers and news: "Bush Playing Chicken With Our Children's Lives".
"Congressional leadership" is an oxymoron.
I do.
If W sends them in and Congress cuts funding, the MSM will blame Bush.
After all, Queen Nancy and Lord Harry warned him.
"Bush Put Troops in Harm's Way Despite Congressional Warning."
BRING IT ON!
They can fund or defund.
They have NO say in troop movement.
I tend to agree. I think the Dim congressmen are covering their a$$es here. They are voting against the "surge" with the clear knowledge of a Bush veto. When the CinC then does what he believes is right, they will claim with "clear voting proof" this is solely Bush's decision it is Bush's war and that is how they will play it in 2008. They won't cut off funding until a Dim is the White House.
Of course if things don't improve dramatically in Iraq we will have a Dim in the White House.
A good piece. It is time for the democraps to put up or shut up. For years they have criticized, carped and whined over Iraq while telling America they had a "new direction." Fine, they won the election but not because of their trite 100 hour agenda. A minimum wage hike is suddenly the end all be all when they have told us for years IRAQ IS THE ISSUE!!! Give me a break. They won the election based on Iraq (and corruption, can I get a standing O for William Jefferson please, but I digress) and are going to have to deal with it. No more secret plans, no more crapola, they now have to show their cards and boy are they, they have NOTHING, NADDA, ZILTCH=. What a shocker.
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