[Sub-Driver]

How American!

[rhombus]

Yeah that really helps with the diplomacy front. Good idea, send our people in with nothing to bargain with. That should guarantee military action!

[Tallguy]

I don't think even Ruth Bader Ginsburg would go for that one (tying the president's hands before the fact).

[AU72]

This would be the most irresponsible piece of legislation I remember seeing.

Might as well negotiate terms of surrender for Iraq and kiss off the Middle East now.

[mainepatsfan]

Well hell why limit it to just Iran?

[savedbygrace]

Webb proves that "once a Marine, always a Marine" is no longer true.

[johnny7]

Way to go VA... you sure made a statement in November.

[Paradox]

Webb to Introduce Legislation Barring Funding For Military Action Against Iran

And thats about as far as that goes...

[TommyDale]

Of course, Webb is willing to assume all responsibility for a nuclear attack by Iran, right?

[NeoCaveman]

Pre-emptive surrender.

[OldFriend]

Thank you for staying home and punishing the President.......you know who you are!!!!!!!!!!!

[Finalapproach29er]

Boland amendment-Part II

Bush better not be stupid enough to sign it.

[wastedyears]

Too bad soldiers can't have their negative opinions published.

[adorno]

Webb's amendment would prohibit Bush from spending any money on a "unilateral military action in Iran without the express consent of the Congress."

Sounds like "pre-emptive surrender".

Webb believes that it's better to surrender now just in case Bush were to war against Iran and then, some months or years down the road, they wouldn't be able to stop the war or pull-funding for the war.

[CharlesWayneCT]

He's impotent. He can't bring himself to propose a real bill cutting off funding for the war he claims we should never have fought, so instead he proposes a bill to cut off funding for a war we aren't even fighting.

[Condor51]

But, Webb continued, "the situation that we have right now where we continue to talk only about the military side — again, it's half a strategy."

Just dam!
If Webb would have only been around in 1943 we could have avoided most of that WWII thing.

After getting our butts kicked all over the Pacific and massacred as Kasserine Pass we should have talked to Tojo, Hitler and Mussolini. Why that would have solved everything. Why didn't anyone think of that?!?

And who were the idiots running things back then? All we had to do was talk darn it. All that military stuff was only half the strategy. Sheesh, what a bunch of maroons.

[jazusamo]

Webb is quickly reaching the anti-American delusional actions of his cohort murtha and he's only been in office a couple months. It's going to be a long six years.

[Psalm 73]

Sounds like a good time to unload on Iran NOW

[Izzy Dunne]

Did he introduce legislation calling barring funding for Al Queso from invading Virginia?

[tobyhill]

Do these congressional clowns have to attend any type of classes to learn how the process works? To pass such legislation would require 60 votes for cloture, pass the house in it's compromised form, be resubmitted to the senate and require 60 votes for cloture on the compromised legislation and then pass a 2/3rds majority in both chambers to override the guaranteed Presidential veto. If the President wants to strike Iran he can do it for up 60 days before even having to go to congress for authorization or funding and by then Iran could be sent back to the Stone Ages. The Democrats are to a point of pretending they have any power just to try to keep their liberal base happy for the next couple years.

[Howlin]

And when Iran attacks us, which they are already doing in Iraq, then what?