BREAKING: DEMOCRATS TO PUSH IRAQ TIMETABLE

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[SoFloFreeper]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Democrats have decided to push a specific timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

[SoFloFreeper]

Forgive the lack of link...this is breaking now.

[SoFloFreeper]

trust me, this is accurate.

[nmh]

Let's just announce it to our enemies so that they can stop fighting for now, gear up and take over after we've left.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Democrats unConstitutionally attempt to usurp the powers of the Executive Branch?????

[johniegrad]

The stupidity of our representatives knows no bounds.

[mainepatsfan]

I'm guessing it'll be before election day next year.

[AU72]

Line in the sand for Republicans. Any RINO stepping over the line to vote for this should stay there.

[mainepatsfan]

Ditto.

[Beckwith]

This bill just proves that the dhimmicrats are allies of al Qaeda.

[RetiredArmy]

Awww, the smell of the 1960s and early 1970s is ripe in the air. I feel like going to the Atlanta airport and finding that aged hippy that spit on me back in 1972.

[wastedyears]

So let me get this straight...

I do know the President is the commander-in-chief of all the US military, but Congress is the entity that funds our military?

There has to be some way to make Congress's opinion null and void. To me, what Congress is demanding Bush do is just an opinion. Whether they circumvent the law and make it real just doesn't matter to me. It's still an opinion. It just gives me all the more reason to purchase a few firearms to defend myself for when the Radicals come.

[jveritas]

And they will fail.

[SoFloFreeper]

related link:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070308/democrats_iraq_070308/20070308?hub=World

But the decision has been made, coming down on AP.

[The Lumster]

Do you think Hitler would have blown his brains out in that bunker in 1945 if the U.S. congress had declared that all troops must leave Europe by the end of 1944?

I'm guessing he would have pulled back, regrouped and waited for us to leave.

We are doomed. The nation is in the hands of morons and traitors.

[Calpernia]

bump

[dfwgator]

The "Nancy Boys" have fallen into line.

[mainepatsfan]

They must be really hearing it from their moonbat donors.

[meg88]

US Democrats craft Iraq troop withdrawal deadline Thu Mar 8, 2007 5:03AM EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have tentatively settled on a timetable and conditions for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, which they hope to attach to a $100 billion Iraq war spending bill, senior lawmakers said on Wednesday. The lawmakers said they hoped to win approval of the plan by the House Appropriations Committee next week. If the House passes the Democratic money bill this month, it likely would face a tough fight in the 100-member Senate, where Democrats have a very slim majority over Republicans and legislative rules often require a 60-vote margin to advance controversial bills. A House Democratic aide indicated the bill would set a timetable for U.S. troops to withdraw if Iraqis did not meet deadlines for taking responsibility to secure their country. Some liberal Democrats had been pushing for a 2008 deadline for withdrawing combat troops from Iraq unconditionally. "I think you'll see basically what I wanted to do and a timetable (in the bill) for what the Iraqis have to do," Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, told a small group of reporters. Murtha, who chairs a House Appropriations panel overseeing military funding, including the hundreds of billions of dollars already spent on the Iraq war, said details of the legislation were being presented to rank-and-file Democrats

He said the measure would provide $1.7 billion more than the Bush administration requested for troop health care. That would respond to recent disclosures of shoddy conditions at Walter Reed military hospital in Washington and other facilities. Murtha, a former Marine and a fierce advocate of withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq, wants to stop President George W. Bush from adding at least 21,500 combat troops to the 139,000 U.S. soldiers already in Iraq. IRAQ SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES Under language he has talked about since January, Murtha would require the Pentagon to certify U.S. troops are properly trained, equipped and rested before going to Iraq. That could be difficult given how thinly stretched the military has become after four years of combat. Reuters Pictures Editors Choice: Best pictures from the last 24 hours. View Slideshow Democrats also want to write into the emergency war funding bill language requiring Iraq's government to take over its security responsibilities. Neither Murtha nor other key Democrats were willing to provide full details of the bill until fellow lawmakers were briefed. That was expected to happen on Thursday. The legislation also is expected to give Bush authority to waive some of the conditions, possibly by requiring him to state publicly that troops were being sent into battle without proper preparation, a potentially damaging admission. House Republican Whip Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, told reporters about 17 Republicans might end up voting with the Democrats when it reaches the House floor. Seventeen House Republicans voted for a nonbinding resolution the House passed last month stating opposition to increasing U.S. troop strength in Iraq

Blunt also indicated that House Republicans, who mostly have continued to support the unpopular war in Iraq, could begin losing their patience. "It would be extraordinarily helpful to get some good news from Iraq. And sooner rather than later," Blunt said when asked how long Republicans would stick with Bush. Senate Democrats were also trying this week to reach agreement on a proposed resolution on Iraq and planned to discuss it at a meeting on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, told reporters. (Additional reporting by Thomas Ferraro and Susan Cornwell http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0738937520070308?src=030807_0801_TOPSTORY_no_military_solution

[woofie]

Democrats:

Fighting in Congress for America's Enemies

So They Wont Have to Fight on The Ground

[dinasour]

They can push all they want.

Can they overcome a veto, or a filibuster.