Posted on 03/29/2007 10:23:24 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Press Releases Contact: Brendan Daly 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 03/28/2007 Pelosi and Reid Call on President to Work with Congress to Chart New Course in Iraq
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today sent the following letter to President Bush objecting to delaying the needed funding for our troops by vetoing the emergency supplemental spending bill, and urging him to work with Congress to ensure our troops receive the support they deserve.
The text of the letter is below:
March 28, 2007
The President The White House Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
Last week the House of Representatives on a bipartisan vote passed an emergency supplemental spending bill. The Senate is poised to pass its version of the bill as soon as later today. Both bills contain much needed funding for our troops and our veterans. Both bills also chart a new course forward in Iraq. Given the importance and urgency of this legislation to our troops and our security, we are quite disturbed by your insistence to veto it. Rather than work with the Congress to develop a bill you could sign, you apparently intend to follow a political strategy that would needlessly delay funding for our troops.
Both the House and Senate versions of this legislation address critical priorities that were either ignored or substantially under-funded by your Administration in the regular budget process. For example, despite the fact that our troops have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001 and in Iraq since 2003, your regular budget submission to the Congress did not include funding for either war. Your regular budget also failed to adequately address the urgent veteran’s health care crisis, vulnerabilities in our homeland security, and the needs of thousands of victims of several severe natural disasters. This Congress is taking the responsible course and responding to needs that have been ignored by your Administration and the prior Congress.
The House and Senate bills also contain important provisions rejecting a continuation of the Iraq policy your Administration has pursued for more than four years. The Iraq provisions are based on the statements by General Petraeus and other senior military leaders that there is no military solution in Iraq. Their collective judgment leads to the inescapable conclusion that U.S. forces should not be trying to contain an Iraqi civil war. Rather, bipartisan majorities in the House and the Senate believe strongly that the U.S. mission should be transitioned to counter-terrorism, force protection, and training and equipping the Iraqi security forces, and that a phased redeployment of U.S. forces should commence.
Mr. President, this is the time to sit down and work together on behalf of the American people and our troops. We stand ready to work with you, but your threats to veto a bill that has not even been presented to you indicate that you may not be ready to work with us. We hope that is not the case.
Sincerely,
Harry Reid Nancy Pelosi Majority Leader Speaker
Basically, "We are not going to let America win this war if Democrats can't have the majority of the credit."
Petitions to sign:
For military:
http://www.appealforcourage.org
For civilians:
http://www.johnmccain.com/involving/petition.aspx?guid=2a68ffa6-4b14-4dec-871b-cbf1f798a756
LOL
Man what bus have these people been on? The surge has already happened.
PING
the enemy within
when pigs fly
Pelosi, "If the President doesn't do it our way , he is being just totally unreasonable."
Sedition is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power. Treason is the violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or state and has to do with giving aid to enemies or levying war. Sedition is more about encouraging the people to rebel, when treason is actually betraying the country..
This is TREASON
Petition Signed.
The Democrats have been calling for a "new course in Iraq" for a long time. A new course arrived with new leadership and a surge. Did the Democrats applaud this new course and the successes taking place? No. They don't give their collective Rat's ass about it. They are against anything except failure. The President doesn't need to work with the children in Congress. He needs to keep on doing what he's doing and be the Commander in Chief. It's not his fault that Congress has been taken over by a bunch of spoiled, ignorant brats who are playing politics with the very lives of our military men and women.
Nuts!!
You're only there because there were too many people pissed at the president because he wasn't doing enough to win... not because they wanted him to pull out.
You think nancy is even able to understand that? I wish that post'd fit in my tagline box
pelosi and reid should be tried for treason, found guilty and hung on the steps of the Capital building.
LLS
If you haven't seen this yet:
A campaign by active-duty troops asking Congress to drop plans for a withdrawal from Iraq. Lt. Jason Nichols, a 33-year-old naval projects officer who has been in Baghdad since mid-January, said the goal is to keep lawmakers focused on letting the military finish its mission in Iraq, and not prematurely declare failure
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7392499685041821301&hl=en
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